03/28/2024
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Bladen County Schools is in the process of building a replacement school at the Tar Heel Middle school site. This school will replace Tar Heel Middle School and Plain View Primary School. It will serve grades PreK-8th. The site will be located at 14888 Hwy 87 West, Tar Heel, North Carolina. The anticipated start of construction will be March of 2022 and completion August of 2023. The new school site is located on the current campus over the septic field but does not encroach on the current pump station. The new school septic field will have to be constructed before the new school starts so that the old school can use this system. The existing school will be demolished during the summer of 2023 so that the parking lot can be installed. Once the new septic field has been completed and approved, the conversion from the pump station will place the old school’s sewage into the new septic field. Bladen County Schools will be purchasing the tank system designed by Haggett Engineering from Vendor Concrete Pipe & Pre-Cast. This will be done to expedite the installation process and is expected to arrive on-site by January 31, 2022. 

The bidding process will begin January 14, 2022, and end on January 25, 2022. The bid will be awarded upon review of all bids and by majority vote of the Bladen County Board of Education. The system must be ready and to convert the old school to connect to it by March 15, 2022. Enclosed is a septic design that is pending approval by the State of North Carolina. Site visits will be allowed before bid due date. Bids should either be emailed, mailed, or hand-delivered to the following and received no later than Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 5:00 PM:

Bladen County Schools
Attn: Dr. Jason Atkinson
1489 US Highway 701 South
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
(910) 862-4136

Late bids will not be accepted. Please bid the complete installation and materials according to specifications and design for this project less the following:

  • Pump Tank 15000 Gallon
  • Septic Tank 1000 Gallon
  • Grease Interceptor 4000 Gallon
  • Manifold Valve Box (2)
  • Pump Tank Valve Box

Supporting Documentation (located at: shorturl.at/czFT0):

Tar Heel School Septic Design

Tar Heel School Septic Specifications

Concrete Pipe & Precast Material List (Furnished by Bladen County Schools)

Bid Sheet

Questions should be addressed to the following correspondents:

Doug Haggett, P.E.
Haggett Engineering Associates, Inc.
5307 S. College Road, Suite 2B
Wilmington, NC 28412
Phone: (910) 397-0808
Email: haggettengineeri@bellsouth.net

Douglas Kuhns, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
sfL+a Architects
333 Fayetteville Street, Suite 225
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 573-6367
Email: dkuhns@slfa.biz

Dr. Jason B. Atkinson, Superintendent
Bladen County Schools
1489 US Highway 701 South
Elizabethtown, NC 28337
Phone: (910) 862-4136
Email: jbatkinson@bladen.k12.nc.us

Proposal Deadline January 25, 2022 – 3:00 PM

Job Award On or before January 31, 2022 (tentative)

Job Completion Date March 15, 2022

Bladen County has right to reject any RFP responses.

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