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Longview Police Bids Under Budget

COUNCIL APPROVES $23.9 MILLION CONTRACT FOR VOTER-APPROVED POLICE STATION

by East Texas Review

For construction projects such as the police station, the City of Longview is required to accept the lowest bid and not consider whether a company is local. The $23.9 million contract is about 14.6% or about $4 million below the allocated construction budget for the project.

The Longview City Council on Thursday, Oct. 22, voted to approve a $23.9 million contract with WRL General Contractors to construct a new three-story, 74,300-square-foot police station…

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