The Knoxville City Council approved the final contracts for the new public safety/city hall building at their meeting Monday.

The new facility will be off of Highway 14 at the site of the former Knoxville Middle School, and is expected to break ground this spring. The 11 contracts that have been approved for the project are listed below: 

Contract No 01 – Precast (Previously Bid and Awarded to MPC Enterprises, Inc.) 

Contract No. 02 – Foundations and Interiors to Core Construction Services, LLC in the amount of $816,825 

Contract No. 03 – Structural Steel & Misc. Metals to Steel Erectors of Iowa, LLC in the amount of $714,500 

Contract No. 04 – Roofing to T&K Roofing Company dba T&K Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc. in the amount of $373,300 

Contract No. 05 – General Trade Multi-Scope to Core Construction Services, LLC in the amount of $3, 782,500 

Contract No. 06 – HVAC to Dickerson Mechanical, Inc. in the amount of $1,785,000 

Contract No. 07 – Plumbing to Dickerson Mechanical, Inc. in the amount of $860,000 

Contract No. 08 – Fire Protection to Midwest Automatic Fire Sprinkler Company in the amount of $168,000 

Contract No. 09 – Electrical to DeVries Electric, Inc. in the amount of $1,506,800 

Contract No. 10 – Excavation, Earthwork, Site Improvements, Landscaping, and Utilities to Cushman Construction in the amount of $2,093,000 

Contract No. 11 – Site Concrete and Concrete Paving to Core Construction Services, LLC in the amount of $482,000

Seven of the contracts were previously approved, but the city re-bid four of the contracts, which City Manager Heather Ussery says resulted in significant cost savings for the project.

“We had a notice of award back in December for several of the packages but we had to go through the rebidding process which took a little longer but ultimately it ended up saving the city hundreds of thousands of dollars going through that exercise so it was beneficial. The next steps will be signing the contracts and setting a date for the groundbreaking.”

Hear more about the project from Ussery on today’s Let’s Talk Knoxville.