{"id":38857,"date":"2014-02-10T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=38857"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:40:30","slug":"sepa-to-rebid-rail-loop-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=38857","title":{"rendered":"SEPA  To Rebid  Rail Loop Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreatRiverEnergy3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20801\" alt=\"GreatRiverEnergy3\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreatRiverEnergy3-300x168.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreatRiverEnergy3-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreatRiverEnergy3-311x175.png 311w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/GreatRiverEnergy3.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) Meeting in Executive Session Monday morning, the Spiritwood Energy Park Association (SEPA) voted to approve a Resolution, to re-bid the rail loop project, and rescinded the bid awarded to Dakota Missouri Valley and Western Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>The action follows the discovery of bid irregularities, reviewing bids opened on January 6, 2014 .<\/p>\n<p>The panel pointed out unintentional actions that may have &#8220;created irregularities&#8221; in the bid evaluation process.<\/p>\n<p>No new date for a bid opening was set.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with RailWorks Track Systems alleged fraud and collusion against the Spiritwood Energy Park Association concerning a construction contract for a rail loop it awarded to Dakota Missouri River Valley and Western Railroad.<\/p>\n<p>The $7 million project will provide rail access to Dakota Spirit AgEnergy and possible future businesses in the Spiritwood Energy Park, a joint project of the Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corp. and Great River Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Great River Energy (GRE) Project Engineer, Rich Garmen says, Dakota Spirit AgEnergy is on schedule for a spring 2014 construction with the rail loop completed by this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) Meeting in Executive Session Monday morning, the Spiritwood Energy Park Association (SEPA) voted to approve a Resolution, to re-bid the rail loop project, and rescinded the bid awarded to Dakota Missouri Valley and Western Railroad. The action follows the discovery of bid irregularities, reviewing bids opened on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38859,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38857\/revisions\/38859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}