Legislative Alerts: Infrastructure Funding

After litigation by ABC member contractors stalled a major prison expansion initiative by the Department of General Services (DGS), the Commonwealth is moving forward with a key design-build project adjacent to SCI Rockview in Centre County.

DGS will use the technical scores in bid submissions to narrow the field of potential winners to three. From there, facts and figures will be the key in determining who will build the new $181.5 million facility. While DGS specs have driven the budget way down, the most significant change from the previous RFP is that there will be no PLA requirement. A bidder may include one at his option and will receive 10 points for doing so.

The Department will follow this RFP with one for SCI Graterford later this spring (late April/early May). Like SCI Benner, the revised RFP will contain slimmed down specs to keep costs well below the previously budgeted $400 million for the project. Unlike the Centre County venture, SCI Graterford will likely have a PLA.

For more information about these projects, please call contact Terry McDonough at 717-731-6272 or keystonecontractors@verizon.net.