The District government has decided to continue managing Eastern Market after a slate of private bidders failed to meet the city’s standards, D.C. officials said Friday.

A two-year, $25 million effort to rebuild the city-owned market after a devastating three-alarm blaze in 2007 is now drawing to a close. The work to rehabilitate the gutted South Hall has been expanded to include an overhaul of adjacent streets — a project that has temporarily relocated more than 100 weekend market vendors.