Dive Brief:
- Clark Construction has beat out six bidders to win a $616.3 million fixed-price contract to build a multistory office building at the Fort Meade U.S. Army base in Fort Meade, MD, GovConWire reported.
- Clark will have an option to perform extra work under the contract, for which the Army has already allocated $24 million in 2016 incremental funds. The estimated completion date is August 2020.
- Fort Meade, according to GovConWire, provides support for Department of Defense civilian employees, military family members and retired and active-duty military.
Dive Insight:
In CMD's 2016 Q2 forecast report, the construction data company predicted that military facility construction would increase by almost 30% in 2016 after a 384% Q1 increase, mostly due to a rise in international conflicts.
Clark, one of the country's largest contractors with annual sales of $4 billion, was sold this year to a group of executive managers, all employees of Clark for more than 30 years and many handpicked for their "hands-on experience" by the late owner, James Clark. The Bethesda, MD,-based company has participated in the construction or renovation of some of the most well known buildings in Washington, DC, including the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and L'Enfant Plaza. Adding another iconic District building to its portfolio, Clark is currently on the building team the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The joint venture of Clark and Lease Crutcher Lewis also recently took over the construction management contract on the $1.6 billion Washington State Convention Center after convention center officials terminated Skanska-Hunt's contract. After a brief legal tussle between Skanska-Hunt and the WSCC, Clark-Lewis came on board as the second-lowest bidder.
Clark is also starting construction, as part of a public-private partnership (P3) joint venture led by the Plenary Group, on the $513 million Long Beach Civic Center project in Long Beach, CA. The new civic center will shoot for LEED certification and will feature seismic-resilient design, high-rise buildings, library, plaza, parking, solar energy, with future plans for residential, retail and a hotel.