OXNARD : La Colonia School Contracts Awarded

The Oxnard Elementary School District has awarded $4.7 million in bids to begin construction of a new intermediate school for La Colonia.

The board of trustees approved four contracts Wednesday after awarding three others at previous meetings.

All seven of the major contracts for preparation and structural work were awarded to the lowest qualified bidders, said Martin Klauss, head of purchasing for the district. Klauss said the district received an average of five or six bids for each contract.

Five contracts went to Ventura County companies. The successful firms were R & H Paving of Saticoy, $337,000 for grading; S. P. Milling of Oxnard, $881,649 for paving and concrete; Precision Plumbing-Mechanical of Moorpark, $847,788 for plumbing; Structural Concepts of Camarillo, $623,000 for structural concrete; and Taft Electric of Ventura, $829,867 for electrical work.

Winning bids from companies outside the county were received from Tierra Contracting of Goleta, $821,600 for site utilities, and Sampson Steel of Bakersfield, $374,000 for structural steel work.

The contracts represent one-third of the estimated $15-million cost of the Robert Frank Intermediate School and will be paid from $40 million in bonds that voters approved in 1988. The school is scheduled to open in the fall of 1993.