After several attempts, three bids have been received for two remaining contracts for a women’s homeless shelter in Carbon County.

During a special meeting on Monday, the county commissioners opened bids for general and electrical contracts for the Peaceful Knights project. The organization is in the process of creating a women’s homeless shelter in Lehighton. It already has a men’s homeless shelter established.

One bid was received for general construction from Northeast Construction Management Group of Lehighton. They bid $157,300.

There were two bids for electrical.

Larry McCullion and Son bid $50,100; while Northeast CM Group bid $63,735.

The bids now join a plumbing contract that had received one bid in August. That bid, submitted by Dave’s Plumbing and Heating Inc. of Palmerton, was for $18,000.

Following the bid opening, the board of commissioners tabled the bids for review by the Office of Planning and Development until next Tuesday. The contracts will be either awarded or rejected at the commissioners’ Sept. 28 meeting.

This was the third time the project was bid out.

Prior attempts to bid the three contracts only netted the one plumbing bid.

Carbon County has $163,000 in Community Development Block Grant COVID funds that is being used toward the project. The money was initially awarded to Family Promise of Carbon County, but delays in their plans caused the county to shift the funds to Peaceful Knights.

Last week, the commissioners said that the deadline for the project, which was originally Sept. 29, was going to be pushed back by the state to allow for time for the work to be completed.

The location of the new women’s shelter will be at 131-133 N. First St., Lehighton, a building Peaceful Knights purchased several years ago with the hopes of helping more people.