BY JIM DOOLEY – The city has awarded a new, $33.4 million contract to Infraconsult 
LLC, the company that has already received nearly $50 million in contracts to oversee the $5.2 billion Honolulu rapid transit project.
Award of the new job to Infraconsult was posted yesterday on the city’s procurement website.
Although the city sought competitive bids for the project management contract, only Infraconsult submitted an offer, according to the procurement posting.
The same thing happened the last time the city put the rapid transit management contract out for bid in 2009.
Only Infraconsult submitted an offer for that $36.7 million contract and city officials speculated then that other possible bidders felt they could not compete with Infraconsult for the work.
The city first hired Infraconsult for rapid transit-related work under a 2007, $11.9 million contract.
Mayor Peter Carlisle’s office and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) did not respond today to emailed requests for information about the new contract.
The 2009, $36.7 million Infraconsult contract was supposed to last for five years.
The effective date and duration of the new deal with Infraconsult are not known.
The rail management contract requires Infraconsult to oversee construction and design work for the massive public works project, which will involve operation of an elevated rail system from Kapolei to central Honolulu.
The project’s principal designer, PB Americas, Inc., has ties to Infraconsult, but city auditors found no conflicts of interest or improprieties in previous rail-related contract awards to either of the companies.
Infraconsult was incorporated in 2006 in Arizona by former executives of Parsons Brinckerhoff, the corporate predecessor of PB Americas.
Oh that is just so convenient since we can use so much that PB can give us in the way of help! Considering Federal DAGS “n The U.S. General Services
Administration has awarded Heery a
nationwide blanket purchase agreement
to provide agency construction
management and project management
services for work nationwide
over the next five years. The agreement
was created to support a $100
million program of renovation and
new construction projects including
federal office buildings, federal courthouses,
border stations, laboratories,
warehouses, and other types of real
property, funded from annual capital
budgets as well as the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA) of 2009. Heery-Seattle has
already received a number of task
orders under this agreement.”
Per https://www.heery.com/Repository/Files/HeeryNews_spring2010_0.pdf
We may also end up with a new women’s prison? Just think what we could have without Rail and with PB!
Go to their website and see all we could be getting without RAIL!!!
“As part of the Parsons Brinckerhoff-
Chicago team, Heery-Chicago won
a portion of the Wacker Drive
Viaduct Reconstruction Project
from the Chicago Department of
Transportation. The Wacker Drive
Viaduct is a reinforced concrete
multi-span structure and home to
such iconic Chicago buildings as
Sears Tower, 311 S. Wacker and
the Civic Opera House. Built in the
1950s, Wacker Drive is in need of a
complete upper and lower level reconstruction
to provide a safer and more
efficient roadway. Heery-Chicago
will be responsible for managing the
Randolph Street to Madison Street
portion. Reconstruction starts later
this year and is estimated to cost over
$100 million.
t The Iowa Department of Corrections
selected Heery-Central Region to
manage the renovation and expansion
of the medium/minimum security
women’s prison in Mitchellville,
Iowa. Originally constructed in the
late 1800s, the Iowa Correctional
Institution for Women (ICIW) is in
need of considerable maintenance,
repair and expansion. Improvements
will increase the number of beds from
443 to 888, upgrade educational,
medical and exercise areas
to improve the inmates’ minds,
bodies and job skills, and result
in an institution that offers efficiencies
in staffing, treatment
and security that will provide for
the general safety of the public,
staff and offenders. Estimated
project cost is $67 million and
it is expected to be complete in
2013.”
Of course if the Feds are giving PB a monetary hedge on contracts-would they not be the ones to bid, in that “…nationwide blanket purchase agreement
to provide agency construction
management and project management
services for work nationwide
over the next five years.”
I mean really! Gotta do it the approved Federal way to qualify for more Federal Money, regardless if other bidders come in under?
Oh what do I know? Nothing! I am no one, and no nothing! Only speculation. Why can we not get new highway construction that lets the car move faster through the mess? It might not be a new choo choo toy, but still it saves the view?
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