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Lamar County board approves $1.32 million deductive change order for Purvis/Sumrall high school project
Summary
The Lamar County Board of Education approved Change Order No. 001 for the Purvis/Sumrall High School construction contract, reducing the contract by $1,319,313.75 through scope substitutions and deletions; the change order does not alter the contract completion date.
The Lamar County Board of Education on April 28 approved Change Order No. 001 for the Purvis/Sumrall High School construction contract, reducing the contract sum by $1,319,313.75.
The change order, submitted on AIA Document G701, was presented to the board as a collection of value-engineering deletions and substitutions. It lists major deductive items including removal of pre-heat coils and associated rooftop unit modifications (-$103,393.29), deletion of a fire pump (-$427,049.19), reductions in specified hardware (-$140,000), changes to the lighting and electrical packages (about -$290,000 combined), and a roofing specification change (-$240,200). The document shows the original contract sum of $86,549,000.00 lowered to a new contract sum of $85,229,686.25; the change order states the contract time is unchanged.
Brad Patano of MP Design Group appears on the AIA form as the design firm principal and the document includes a signature line for Wesley Quick as the Lamar County Schools superintendent. The change order language and attached VE (value engineering) tracking sheets enumerate a wider set of substitutions and deletions, totaling more than $3.1 million in VE items accounted for in some line-item summaries but resulting in the net deductive change of $1,319,313.75 recorded in Change Order 001.
Board materials and the signed form identify the contractor and design professionals and list the line-item accounting that produced the $1,319,313.75 net deduction. The change order notes that adjustments authorized by Construction Change Directive are not included until both owner and contractor agree and execute a change order.
The board recorded the approval in the meeting minutes; the change order will be incorporated into the contract documents and reflected in the contract sum. No change to the contract completion date was recorded in the change order. The board did not discuss any separate budget transfer or new funding source tied to the change order during the special called meeting. The next procedural step is formal execution of the change order and incorporation into contractor pay applications and project accounting.
