Six contractors bid on Warren's paving, and the spread between low and high was $643,400
Resolution 2026-152 awarded the 2026 Streets Overlay contract to Carroccia Co. Contractors of Green Brook. The award is capped at $945,800 on a unit price basis, at $94.50 per ton of overlay.
On May 14, 2026 the Warren Township Committee awarded the 2026 Streets Overlay contract to Carroccia Co. Contractors of 336 Route 22, Green Brook, by a 5-0 vote. Six contractors bid. Carroccia was low at $1,325,100 against a high of $1,968,500 from Tilcon, a spread of $643,400. The award is capped at $945,800, based on a maximum 10,000 tons of overlay at $94.50 per ton and 80,000 square yards of milling at $0.01 per square yard. Bids were advertised in the April 9 Courier News and received April 26.
Public bidding is one of the few places where you can see what a service actually costs, because six companies quote the same scope on the same day.
The bids
The bid total and the award cap are not the same figure and neither is wrong. This is a unit price contract. The bidders quoted a price per ton of overlay and per square yard of milling, and those prices were applied to estimated quantities to produce a comparable bid total. The award then caps what the township will actually pay against the appropriation the Chief Financial Officer certified. If less asphalt goes down than estimated, the township pays less. The final quantities installed are not verified.
| Bidder | Bid |
|---|---|
| Carroccia Co. Contractors | $1,325,100 |
| Schifano Construction Corp. | $1,548,500 |
| P&A Construction Inc. | $1,572,400 |
| PM Construction | $1,591,000 |
| KCC | $1,623,000 |
| Tilcon | $1,968,500 |
Carroccia, which also appears in the record as CCM, came in $223,400 below the second lowest bidder. That is a 16.9 percent gap between first and second, which is wide. The four bidders from second through fifth cluster within $74,500 of each other, which is what a competitive field normally looks like. One bidder well below a tight cluster is worth noticing, though nothing in the public record explains it.
The high bid is 48.6 percent above the low bid for the same work.
What the township is buying
The unit prices are the interesting part of the resolution.
The milling price of one cent per square yard is not a typo in the record. On this kind of contract the milling line is frequently bid at a nominal figure with the cost carried in the overlay unit price. It makes the two line items hard to read separately, and it is common practice.
Funding was certified across three accounts: 6-01-44-911-6902 at $504,000, 6-01-26-290-6599 at $81,000 and 6-01-26-290-6597 at $360,800. Those three sum to $945,800, which is the award cap.
The vote and the credit
The vote was 5-0, on a motion by Committeeman Daniel Croson and a second by Committeeman Daniel McCarey. Croson, who serves as the Public Works liaison, thanked Public Works Superintendent Doug Buro, Administrator Mark Krane and Township Engineer Chris Kastrud.
Where the season already stood
Warren's road work was underway before this contract was awarded, because the overlay program is only one of several funding streams.
At the April 16 meeting Croson reported that the 2026 Overlay Program had officially gone out to bid, and separately that work would begin April 20 on King George Road Phase II, from Berkshire to Washington Valley. On completion, crews would move to Mountainview Road Phase I, from Round Top to the Federal Reserve Bank driveway. Mountainview Road Phase II, from Round Top to Mount Horeb, was expected to go out to bid in the coming months, with anticipated completion in late summer or early fall.
Those phases run on New Jersey Department of Transportation funding rather than on the municipal overlay appropriation, which is why they proceed on their own schedule.
The award tells you what the township will spend and who will do the work. It does not tell you which streets. The 2026 overlay street list had not been published as of this writing. Croson asked residents in February to email Public Works at dburo@warrennj.org with candidate roads, which is the channel for getting a street evaluated.
What this costs per mile, and why I am not calculating it yet
The obvious next question is what Warren pays per mile of road. I am not putting a number on it here, because the mileage covered by this contract is not in the award resolution. A cost per mile figure calculated against an unknown denominator would look precise and mean nothing.
When the street list publishes with a mileage total, the division is worth doing, and it is the single most useful figure for judging whether a paving program is buying well. Ten thousand tons at $94.50 is a hard number. The miles it covers is the number that turns it into a comparison.
- Township of Warren, Resolution No. 2026-152, Award of Contract, 2026 Streets Overlay, May 14, 2026. https://www.warrennj.org/DocumentCenter/View/11709
- Township of Warren, Township Committee Regular Meeting Minutes, May 14, 2026. https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05142026-975
- Township of Warren, Township Committee Regular Meeting Minutes, April 16, 2026. https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04162026-968
