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r' I 1 9 9 yyy I'tTyf-y i1 -r' -rr Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, August 4, 1988 Du Page 7 firms submit bids to build $51 million county courthouse IMf' pi under close scrutiny because of the county's less-than-stellar record in selecting a builder for major projects, such as the central administration building and the jail. The county filed lawsuits against the builders of both facilities to recover money needed for repairs that stemmed, they said, from poor workmanship or design. Kumorek said the contracts for the courthouse, however, are much stricter in terms of accountability and responsibility than the ones for the jail and administration building at the county complex in Whcaton. "By experience, we've learned some things to cover," he said. He said the bids opened Wednesday were "really clustered together" more than usual in a bidding process.

With the additional costs figured in, he said, all are in range of the building's estimated $51.6 million price tag. The lowest base bidder was Walsh Construction Co. of Illinois a Chicago company. It may not have met all the bid requirements, however, because officials were unable to locate one document they said was necessary to receive the contract. PCL Construction Services of Wood Dale, bid $40.58 million.

Four contractors bid in the $43 millions. The contractor selected is required to follow what Kumorek called the "very specific" requirements set forth in the contract, including some warranty agreements. The requirements weren't included in the contracts for the administration building and the jail, he said. The county has a lawsuit pending against the designer and the builder of its five-year-old jail seeking a refund for the cost of repairing leaky windows and doing minor masonry work. The county will open bids on Aug.

19 for repair work on the facility. The jail was designed by Prindle, Patrick Orput Architects of Rockford and built by a Hinsdale-based general contractor, S.N. Nielsen Co. Two years ago, the county settled out of court with a Naperville contractor, Wil-Freds accused of doing shoddy masonry work on the administration building across the street from the jail. The cost of repairing and replacing defective masonry on the buildings totaled more than $5 million more than half what the county paid to have them built 15 years ago.

By Jan Crawford Du Page County officials Wednesday opened bids from seven contractors for construction of the county's $51 million courthouse and are expected to select a company within the next few weeks. The base bids for the building ranged from $38.99 million to $44.95 million. But those figures do not include such things as furnishings, library equipment and excavation work, which are included in the total cost, said Tony Ficarclli, a Du Page County assistant state's attorney in the civil division. The courthouse will by financed by a combination of sales tax revenues and the sale of general obligation bonds. It will cost the average homeowner an additional $20 a year in real estate taxes on a $120,000 home.

The bids will be examined by county staff and the building's architects, Wight said Arnold Kumorek, director of the county's capital plant department. A tentative schedule shows a county committee will be asked to approve the contract award Aug. 1 5. Selection of a contractor to build the courthouse is expected to come Naperville OKs design contract Facade raises estimate for City Hall to $14.2 million AV A- 'y Ml 'y Tribune photos by James Mayo North-South Tollway shaping up By Flynn McRoberts The Naperville City Council has approved a design contract for its new City Hall that includes a preliminary construction cost estimate that is nearly $1 million more than the original estimate. The contract, submitted by Fujikawa, Johnson Associates of Chicago, sets the price of building a new Municipal Center and two-level parking garage at $14.2 million, about $1 million more than the figure Fujikawa estimated when it first bid on the project last November.

About $684,000 of the added cost results from the council's decision to use a granite facade for the building rather than a less expensive metai-and-glass cover, according to Doug Johnson, Fujikawa project manager. The remainder of the additional cost is due to an increase in the amount of space to 93,000 square feet from a November estimate of 88,500 square feet. "We even told them in November that we would probably need more space than that to about $1 million as compensation. "I don't think the site is adequate in terms of size for the future," Hayer said. "They want the City Hall there, and they will spend whatever it takes." Fujikawa will submit final cost estimates for the project by the end of December, Johnson said, before the city begins taking bids for the construction of the building and 400-space garage.

The council's action Monday formally approved a decision it had made at a workshop last month. The council also approved a $6 million construction contract to build a service center for the electric department. Marino Construction of Oak Creek, the low bidder among six, won the contract for the building at Aurora Avenue and River Road. The new police station is being built there, too. Construction of the service center is to begin within a month and should be finished by the fall of 1989, Pajor said.

make it a decent municipal building," Johnson said Charlie Pajor, Naperville's community relations coordinator, defended the council's decision to go with the more expensive materials. "They just felt that, considering they were building a building that would be representative of the community a granite-covered building would look better and wear better and would also have lower maintenance costs for the exterior." The council approved the $1 million design contract with Fujikawa, which it selected from six Chicago-area architects in February, on a 6-1 vote Monday, with Councilman Toby Hayer dissenting. The cost of the design contract is in addition to the cost of the project's construction. On Tuesday, Hayer repeated her opposition to the project's location, a 4.4-acre site across the Du Page River from the present City Hall, which officials say is crowded. The new building will displace five homeowners, to whom the city has agreed to pay Construction on the $350 million North-South At the intersection, the East-West is being re-Tollway continues as workers monitor the built to pass over the North-South.

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