Kingfisher County commissioners opened 10 bids for a new Kingfisher County OSU Extension office at the county fairgrounds Monday.

Bids ranged from $1,059,000 to $1,536,260.

Bids included: Calm Construction, $1,059,000; Henson Construction, $1,116,000; W.L. McNatt & Co., $1,200,000; Firebrand Construction, $1,231,000; Cade Construction, $1,300,000; Downey Construction, LLC, $1,307,787; Vogts Construction Co., $1,384,500; Hembree & Hodgson Construction, $1,403,478; C4L, $1,497,941; L. Wallace Construction, $1,536,260.

Commissioners tabled action on the bids to allow review and tabulation.

Ken Corbin, architect, and Rony Ramirez, architectural intern, with Architecture & Interior Design (Corbin, Merz and Haney) were present for the bid opening along with several representatives of bidding companies.

Corbin expressed delight with the large response to the project.

Bidding companies indicated construction can be completed from 25 weeks to 46 weeks after work begins.

Starting date for construction will be set after a contract is awarded at next week’s commission meeting.

Commissioners also approved a revised employee policy handbook, called for bids on a grounds-landscaping agreement for the courthouse and a wildlands fire fighting apparatus for the Okarche Fire Department, monthly reports from the offices of sheriff, treasurer, county clerk, assessor and health department and a 60-day right-of-way permit for K&J Construction to cross a county road with 12-inch and three-inch water lines at a point four miles south and seven miles west of Hennessey in District 2.

Commissioners called for bids to be received on the court- house grounds contract until 4 p.m. March 1 in the office of County Clerk Jeannie Boevers for courthouse grounds and landscaping work. Bids will be opened at the commissioners’ weekly meeting on March 4.

The same bidding deadline applies for the Okarche Fire Department wildlands fire fighting apparatus. Those bids also will be opened at the March 4 commission meeting.

Bid packets for both projects will be available at the county clerk’s office.

A $13,000 invoice from Pinnacle Consulting Management Group for work on a bridge over an unnamed creek on the Dover-Crescent Road, which is scheduled for paving work later in the year also received approval.

Chairman Heath Dobrovolny, District 3, and District 1 Commissioner Jeff Moss and District 2 Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek were all present for the meeting along with Boevers as minute clerk and County Engineer Nik Smith.

Construction Company representatives attending included: Morgan McLommas, Firebrand Construction; Austin Reid, Cade Construction, and Steven Henson, Henson Construction.