DOVER, Del. (AP) - A Delaware judge has temporarily halted progress on the next phase of a bike and pedestrian trail linking Wilmington and New Castle pending resolution of a dispute between a contractor and state transportation officials.
After opening and publicly reading a bid from Kuhn Construction Co., officials declared Kuhn the low bidder. But they later rejected the bid because it was not accompanied by the required bond.
Kuhn says it did attach the bond to its bid, and that officials violated the law by opening and reading the bid without confirming the bond.
The judge ruled last week that the mistaken public reading does not invalidate the entire bid process.
But he halted the project while attorneys try to determine whether the bid did or did not include the bond.
