Dive Brief:
- When two bids to demolish one police station and build a new one came in at the same price – $4,410,000 – officials in Gretna, La., combed through them looking for something to make one better than the other.
- That settled, nothing, however, Arthur Lawson, the police chief, said, and F.H. Meyer Construction Co. and Trimark Construction LLC remained dead even.
- The town decided it will settle the question the old-fashioned way, with a coin toss at a City Council meeting. F.H. Meyer called heads while the coin was in the air and won.
Dive Insight:
It was not explained who got to call heads or tails, but the toss was deemed the right way to settle the question. Gretna got five bids on the project when it advertised last month. It also got what Lawson allowed was a "very rare’ event for choosing a construction firm."
