$18.1M for Tri-Service Reserve Center in Schenectady, NY
The Walsh Group in Chicago, IL is receiving $18.1 million for construction of a consolidated reserve center at the at the Schenectady County Airport. The new joint Armed Forces Reserve center will accommodate the necessary training and support functions from three old deteriorated reserve centers for the Navy, Marines and New York Air National Guard that will be closed. This project is firm-fixed price task order 0004 under previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract (N62470-01-D-1138).
Work will be performed in Schenectady, NY, and is expected to be complete by January 2008. The basic contract under which this is happening was competitively procured, with 116 proposals solicited, 10 offers received and awards made to 6 contractors on April 26, 2002. They compete for task orders, and the total contract amount is not to exceed $150 million annually (base year with four option years) with a maximum of $750 million worth of projects to be placed on all multiple contracts over the 5-year term. Two proposals were received for this task order by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Public Works Department Pennsylvania in Willow Grove, PA.