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Behavioral health care center GMP to drop about $4M; county proposes using $500K of contingency credit for furniture
Summary
County staff said bids for the behavioral health care center came in below the bid contingency, reducing the guaranteed maximum price by roughly $4,000,000; staff proposed requesting a full credit from Messer, using about $500,000 to cover a furniture shortfall (original furniture budget $1.2M; pricing returned at $1.7M), and returning remaining funds to construction reserves.
Michael Miller briefed the commissioners that, after formal bids were received for the county’s behavioral health care center, the contractor Messer had bid savings that allow the county to reduce the guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for the project by approximately $4,000,000.
Miller explained how a bid contingency was included in Messer’s early GMP because the…
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