Unalaska, AK – The Department of Public Works is recommending Pacific Pile and Marine and PND as the firms to design and build the new Carl E. Moses small boat harbor. Public works employees opened the bids today. Pacific Pile and PND both produced the lower bid proposal at $24.5 million and their proposal garnered the most points during the technical review process. The competing bid from the Dutra group did not score as highly and would cost $33.1 million. City Engineer Tyler Zimmerman said he was both surprised and very pleased. The winning bid features robust, corrosion-proof steel floats with individual slips and a piling system. The city will now enter negotiations with the firms to settle on a price and to finalize some design details. The city council will vote to accept the bid in early December. During their presentation, the winners said they will have stakeholder meetings to gather community input during the designing and building processes.