Sheri Phillips, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of General Services and John Wetzel, State’ Secretary of Corrections, have jointly declared the selection of a contractor for the construction of a new multi-purpose state correctional facility.
TOM CORBETT, GOVERNOR. Credit: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
A partnership of Walsh Construction and Heery International has won the contract bid of $315,797,000 to provide, design and construct the facility to be located in Montgomery County. The project bid requires building of an up-to-date secure facility to house around 4,100 prison inmates, meeting the specifications of the Department of Corrections while cutting down the functional costs.
The project known as State Correctional Institutions Phoenix East and West underwent a rebid process after changing the original plans, in order to meet the current and future requirements of the Department of Corrections. The original bid of $322,927,000 was pruned down by 2.2 percent or $7.13 million and a new bid was issued. The design changes made by the officials in the original bid include adequate space for correction industries, a housing lay-out design to provide increased visibility to staff, a separate female inmate midway unit outside of the prison border and an additional 100-bed capital case unit. The new construction has included a number of security modifications and features for the effective use of the available physical-protection systems by combining latest technologies.
The partnership of Canonsburg, Washington County-located Walsh Construction and Philadelphia located Heery International have planned to award plumbing, electrical and mechanical contracts after completing the design for the project. Pittsburgh-based Astorino has been chosen to provide architectural services for the project. Construction of the new facility, which is to take place over the land of Montgomery County-located SCI Graterflrd is anticipated to be finished by 2014.
Source: http://www.state.pa.us/