The Knoxville City Council approved six contracts for the new public safety/city hall building project at their meeting Monday.
This project will be off of Highway 14 at the site of the former Knoxville Middle School. At a meeting in November, the council heard an update from the architect and construction manager Wendel, and have now approved six bid packages for construction. Bids that were approved below:
- Contract No 2 – Foundations and Interior Concrete to Core Construction Services, LLC in the amount of $816,825
- Contract No 3 – Structural Steel & Misc. Metals to Steel Erectors of Iowa, LLC in the amount of $714,500
- Contract No 4 – Roofing to T&K Roofing Company dba T&K Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc. in the Amount of $373,300
- Contract No 5 – General Trade Multi-Scope to Core Construction Services, LLC in the Amount of $3,868,086
- Contract No 8 – Fire Protection to Midwest Automatic Fire Sprinkler Company in the Amount of $168,000
- Contract No 11 – Site Concrete & Concrete Paving to Core Construction Services, LLC in the Amount of $482,000
City Manager Heather Ussery says four items will now need to be re-bid in January.
“We recommended moving forward with six of those which means rebidding of four of those packages. The four packages that will be rebid are plumbing, HVAC, site improvement work and then electrical so in January we will move forward with rebidding those four.”
The project is expected to break ground this spring. Hear more from Ussery on today’s Let’s Talk Knoxville.