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Read the Emerald
Of awing by Afcaa Keshtsfuan
Special bidding system selected
for construction of county jail •
By CAROLE HAMILTON
Of the Emerald
By March, 1979, Lane County s $9.7 million >ail
should be neanng completion. A new facility will be
built and the present one remodeled Once finished,
the jail will hold 211 inmates, plus 20 mental health
beds, in a two-story building with a basement.
Until last week, there was uncertainty as to the
method to be used in building the jail. Finally on
Wednesday, the county commissioners voted 2 to 1
(Weinstein opposed) to go ahead with plans to build
the jail under the new construction management
method.
The controversy centered around the use of
construction management instead of the conven
tional bidding method of construction.
According to Will Johnston, facilities planning
and construction officer, conventional bidding has
been the method of building most widely used in the
past. In this method, the plans are first completed
and then put out for bids. The lowest bidder wins the
contract and becomes the general contractor
The construction management system is a fas
ter method, says Johnston. Here, the building is
being designed in stages, each stage going out for
bid. Construction doesn t wait for completion of the
designs.
Main opposition to construction management
comes from people who state that the jail will cost
$900,000 to $1 million over the cost of conventional
bidding. Johnston disagrees, saying that the jail will
be finished eight months earlier under construction
management.
"Construction management will save time and
with a steadily increasing rate of inflation, time is
money, he says
In addition, the present jail has a limited amount
of space, and prisoners are over-crowded Daily,
prisoners are sent to other facilities, such as
Roseburg s jail The county is charged for the trans
portation and keeping of these pnsoners This ex
pense will be eliminated when the new jail is built
Johnston points out.
Johnston feels that much criticism comes from
not understanding the construction management
method. It has been pointed out that general contrac
tors won t be bidding for the job Many persons fear
that this will eliminate competition and that work per
formance will suffer Johnston strongly disagrg£r
with this, saying. If anything, construction manA
ment will enhance competition He explains thaW"
stages of construction will go out for bid This will
cause the firm to do better work in order to receive
more contracts in the future.
In the conventional bidding method, only the
general contractors job is up for bid The firm which
becomes the general contractor can then hire any
sub contractor for the various aspects of the job No
bidding is done by the sub-contractors.
Johnston feels that having the sub-contractors
bid for the jobs, fees for the building will be spread
around a little more fairly, instead of going to a gen
eral contractor s favorite sub-contractor
Johnston feels the construction management
method is the wave of the future ." He points out that
the East coast builders have been using construc
tion management for years. Two of the biggest
buildings in the world. Sears Tower in Chicago and
the World Trade Center were built though construc
tion management,'' he says.
Day Care—
vocational training programs, and
juniors and seniors in state sys
tem schools.
Supporters of the bill had been
worried it wouldn’t receive a hear
ing but an exchange between
Katz and Reps. Ed Fadeiey,
D-Eugene and Howard Cherry,
D-Portland, laid those fears aside
All three legislators were in a
Ways and Means hearing when
OSL lobbiests Kirby Garrett and
Jim Berneau slipped Katz a note
asking her to speak to the day
care supporters assembled out
side.
Katz agreed and asked Fadeiey
to join her.
“They’re your people too,’’ she
said, refering to the many Univer
sity student parents.
' Are we going to be on the
same side on this?' Fadeley
asked Katz. "Are we going to have
a hearing?"
Replied Katz, "I never said we
wouldn t have a hearing.'
Fadeley then turned to Cherry,
who chars the subcommittee the
day care bill is assigned to and
said, "Did you hear that?"
Responded Cherry, "Well I
want a hearing on it.
Laughed Katz, “I’ve said all
along I wanted a hearing on it.”
The crowning touch of the day
came when the nearly 70 student
parents and children — from the
University, Portland Community
College and Lane Community Col
lege — trooped up to the
governor s office to drum up some
support. When Gov. Straub
walked in, his blue-carpeted
ceremonial office was packed with
parents and children, still carrying
their signs and balloons. One
youngster had even taken over
the governor’s chair.
“I wish I had a pen," remarked
Straub.
Not being familiar with the bill,
Straub merely wished everyone
the best of luck and promised he d
look into it.