The roundabout at Market Street and Pennsylvania Avenue won’t be constructed in 2022.

PennDOT has decided to rebid the project and, as a result, the “majority, if not all of the work, will be done next year,” PennDOT Press Officer Jill Harry told the Times Observer.

Construction had been expected to commence possibly as soon as the end of this month.

But Harry explained that the apparent low bidder did not complete some post-bid paperwork.

“We had no choice but to reject that bid,” she said. “In the best interest of the state, we decided to go ahead and rebid the project.”

Was the decision impacted at all by pressure applied by Warren City Council?

“No,” Harry said.

She said that the paperwork element is a “safeguard as part of the system” and “part of the paperwork was not turned in by the deadline.”

“What what means,” Harry added, is that PennDOT will “spend some time putting a new projected construction schedule” together.

That means that there “could be some late season work” in 2022, such as moving utilities but the “majority if not all of the work will be done next year.”

The apparent low bidder was a Brookville firm at a total construction cost of $3,827,580.

Estimates for the cost of the project have varied significantly over the course of the project. The Times Observer reported in 2018 that estimated costs were proposed between $1 million and $2 million.