Port of Alaska details large dock program, multiple contracts and insurance purchases ahead of assembly votes

Acting Port Director Jim Jager and Port of Alaska engineers told the Assembly Infrastructure, Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee on July 29 that work tied to the Port Asset Management Program (PAMP) and related port projects will require multiple contract awards, insurance purchases and further technical studies.

The presentations covered a proposed five-year extension of Jacobs Engineering’s program-management contract with a not-to-exceed amount of about $63 million, a sole-source training contract for Safeguard Marine LLC (roughly $120,000), an awarded $25,646,000 contract for an electrical substation, planned insurance purchases for the Terminal 1 construction program and a forthcoming condition assessment of POL 2 dock structure.

The matters matter because Terminal 1 is a multihundred‑million-dollar construction program with an August 15 convergence date for new ship-to-shore cranes. The committee heard that schedule, insurance and contractor-management decisions affect risk on the construction critical path and the municipality’s potential exposure.

John Daly, PAMP engineering manager for the port, described the Jacobs extension as a five‑year, September‑to‑September period of performance intended to cover construction administration, permitting and design support. Daly said the extension is a not‑to‑exceed contract “up to $63,000,000” and that construction‑administration costs are expected to fall…