PAWV received 32 applications requesting over $2.8 million during the Saving Historic Places Grant application period of December 8, 2021 to March 18, 2022. Seven projects were selected totaling $488,008.53 in grant awards (detailed below). Most of these projects have already published requests for quotations (RFQs) from qualified contractors.

1. Arthurdale School Buildings, Arthurdale (Preston County)
Amount Received: $65,175.28
Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. received funding to stabilize the exteriors of the 3 historic school buildings on the Arthurdale campus. This includes roof repair, drainage systems, gutter installation, mothballing windows and doors, sidewalk repair and brush removal. Project funding will secure, stabilize and mothball the buildings to prepare for their adaptive re-use. Pictured below are two of the school buildings. 

2. Cold Metal Building, Wellsburg (Brooke County)
Amount Received: $84,790.10
The Business Development Corporation of the Northern Panhandle (BDC), a nonprofit organization, received funding for the stabilization of the Cold Metal Building. Funding will be used to repoint brick, infill holes, and rebuild certain areas of the building. The BDC is working with the local community on a master plan for the structure that involves reusing it for a commercial space.

3. New River Grocery Building, Hinton (Summers County)
Amount Received: $108,810
The City of Hinton received funding to install a complete EPDM roofing system, including the insulation board, gutters, downspouts, and accessories. The proposed use of the New River Grocery Building will be to immediately incorporate it as an extension of the Freight Depot event center, a space used by nonprofit organizations, as well as to relocate the Railroad History Museum to this space.

4. Logan House, Beverly (Randolph County)
Amount Received: $30,000
Rich Mountain Battlefield Foundation received funding to repair a hole in the roof of the Logan House, replace timbers in the roof and upper floor that have been compromised by a fire, and replace rotting boards. This is a first step in saving the currently vacant building.

DUE DATE: Wednesday Dec 21, 2022, 11:00 a.m.

Purpose of Bid
The Town of Romney intends to purchase the subject services from the lowest and best responsible bidder or bidders (each, a “Contractor”) in accordance with the conditions and specifications contained or referenced in the Contract Documents and Bidding Documents (provided for download in PDF format) with this Invitation to Bid.

Bid Request
Please submit a sealed bid for furnishing all materials and services (“Work”) relating to the 2022 Romney Barn Phase 1 Stabilization Project in accordance with all terms and conditions specified in the Contract Documents and Bidding Documents included herewith. 

Questions
Upon delivery or pickup of the accompanying Bidding Documents, an interested party will also be listed as a registered bidding document holder. All Bidding Document requests for information, substitution requests, site visit requests, and correspondence shall be submitted in writing and directed via email to bkeadle@townofromney.org. Any questions about the meaning and intent of this invitation to bid and the specifications must be submitted no later than five business days before the Bid submission deadline.

Addenda will be issued by the Town of Romney to registered bidding document holders only, who will automatically receive all addenda in electronic format (PDF) via file transfer email.

The entirety of the Invitation to Bid is available for download below: