News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Kirby Nagelhout Construction of Bend will serve as the Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) for the new Sisters High School.
The Sisters School Board selected Nagelhout for the post after a four-hour interview session with three final candidates.
The selection is contingent upon negotiation of a final contract and "guaranteed maximum price."
Under the CM/GC process, the contractor assists in the design phase of the project as well as the actual building. .
Nagelhout beat out Lease Crutcher Lewis and Baugh, both out of the Willamette Valley.
The board believes Nagelhout offered the best proposal.
"Through the interview process, I believe he gave us the most complete proposal," said board member Steve Keeton, who chaired the subcommittee that conducted screening and interviews. "What he told you had substance to it."
Keeton noted that Nagelhout provided line-by-line prices for a list of general conditions.
The other bidders left many of those line items marked "cost of work." That means that costs would be determined as the work was done.
According to Keeton, with Nagelhout's proposal most costs are "locked down."
Nagelhout will take 5.57 percent as his overhead, profit and fee on the project.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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