TERMINAL 5: Construction contract awarded, and other updates

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That’s the slide deck for a briefing on the Terminal 5 modernization project, planned for tomorrow’s meeting of the Northwest Seaport Alliance managing members – aka port commissioners for Seattle and Tacoma. Some notes of interest in the slides and the accompanying memo (PDF):

–Orion Marine was successful (and lowest) bidder at just under $160 million, $24 million below the engineering estimate for the project. Four others submitted higher bids, highest at $200 million.

-The construction-management team is now working in the Administration Building at the site

-An “open house” is scheduled later this month and groundbreaking in July; we’re checking to see if either will be a public event

The briefing is scheduled toward the end of the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting, which starts at 11:30 am at the Sea-Tac Airport Conference Center and includes a public-comment period in the early going.

Swede. June 3, 2019 (7:21 pm)

*Give a low and half realistic bid. *Find things while doing it and ad on cost. End result – higest initial bid would been less.

Sixbuck June 3, 2019 (8:47 pm)

I just hope they do it right.

Samwell June 4, 2019 (9:45 am)

Can anyone point me to some studies that certify the efficacy of the “lowest bid wins” policy wrt Seattle’s municipal contracting? Personally I find that the contractor who provides the best value for the price (which is almost never the contracter with the _actual_ lowest price) is the wisest choice.Is this good policy, or just typical short-sighted penny pinching?

Steve June 6, 2019 (12:04 pm)

So the union is making them put in a 3+ MILLION dollar breakroom lol… I’ll have to check that out whenever it’s open and I start going there for work.

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