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Ulster County presents Government Operations Center; bids total about $21.8 million
Summary
County staff and the Irvine Group outlined a Government Operations Center that would centralize 9‑1‑1 dispatch, emergency operations and training. Construction bids for five prime contracts totaled about $21.8 million; the county plans a phased transition with no operational downtime and expects the facility to be fully operational in early 2027.
Jamie Capiano, a county project presenter, told the Ulster County Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee on April 10 that the county’s planned Government Operations Center will centralize 9‑1‑1 public-safety answering point (PSAP) functions, the emergency operations center (EOC), training space and related IT and support areas.
Capiano said bids for construction, submitted in mid‑February after documents went out earlier this year, totaled about $21,800,000 across five prime contracts procured under New York’s Wicks Law. “We cannot have any type of downtime,” Capiano said, describing a phased transition in which the county’s current operations would become the backup PSAP while the new center is commissioned.
The county’s consultant team and Christopher Young of the Irvine Group described the building program as including a PSAP, an emergency response center (ERC), the Department of Emergency Services…
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