The Wake County Board of Education Tuesday approved a guaranteed maximum price for the 52 bids on individual elements of the Rolesville High School project.<\/p>\n
The proposed project budget is $74.8 million \u2014 more than $1 million less than in the budget presented to the board in April.<\/p>\n
Some board members expressed weariness with the project and an eagerness to move forward, even as Superintendent Tony Tata and staff presented a new proposal a year after the bidding process was closed.<\/p>\n
Tata had heard of a firm that could do the project for less. Hite Associates completed a similar facility in Johnson County for about $5 million less than the current winning bids.<\/p>\n
Board Member Debra Goldman said considering a new proposal could be unfair. Some firms approached the board a year ago, claiming that they could do the project for as much as $8 million to $12 million less, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy this is happening now is making me a little uncomfortable,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cWho is this firm and why are they getting preferential treatment now? I don\u2019t feel comfortable with opening up the process when others came to us before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Board member Kevin Hill expressed concern that the Hite building in Johnson County provided less instructional space than the current design for Rolesville.<\/p>\n
The current winning bids award more than one quarter of the total project cost to minority- and women-owned firms.<\/p>\n
Rolesville High School is projected to open in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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