The Shawnee County Commission plans Monday to consider awarding a bid to the company that submitted the highest of three bids received to enable the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office to buy an armored rescue vehicle. Commissioners plan to consider authorizing the sheriff’s office to buy an armored rescue vehicle from LENCO Industries Inc. at a cost of $311,826, including $211,826 in federal forfeiture money and $100,000 in capital outlay funding, which the commission approved last December for that purpose.
LENCO submitted the highest bid the county received. The others — submitted by The Armored Group LLC and International Armored Group US Inc. — would have brought total costs of $296,470 and $257,050, respectively.
But International Armored Group failed to meet several key bid requirements while LENCO provided the “best and most reasonable bid” of the other two, Sheriff Herman Jones told commissioners in a recent memo. He cited four reasons LENCO’s bid was considered the best.
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