There will be a few more bumps in the road before Bainbridge starts its annual street repairs.

Actually, the island-wide asphalt overlays planned for this year will be pushed off until 2018 after city officials rejected the only offer they got, one that pushed past the city’s estimate by more than $200,000.

The Bainbridge Island City Council unanimously rejected the bid from Lakeside Industries, which came in at $574,069, at Tuesday’s council meeting.

Public Works Director Barry Loveless said the only bid that came in on June 8 was “significantly over” the engineer’s estimate for the work.

By the numbers, that was 68 percent, as Bainbridge put the cost at $341,000.

There wasn’t much interest in the job from the few companies that do asphalting, Loveless told council members.

“Typically we don’t get a lot of bids on these projects,” he said.

And other bidders weren’t interested either, Loveless added: “There’s just a lot of other jobs on the street.”

The city’s planning department now hopes to restructure the road repair project to package it with next year’s planned work, then advertise it again — Loveless said that would make it bigger and more attractive during a less competitive period — with the project going out to bid in late 2017.