cantab wrote:Is this an

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=cantab]Is this an example of excessive government spending on buildings? $78,000 per room to renovate a building that is only 23 years old.

From http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=68399:

“$8.8 million … to renovate a bachelor enlisted quarters (BEQ) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

“BEQ 41371 is a three-story motel style barracks that was constructed in 1989,” said Dan Tokatlian, NAVFAC Southwest project manager for the renovation. “It has 132 rooms and houses 396 Marines. The building does not meet many current codes, and it is not energy efficient.”

The project will include the installation of a roof mounted 50kW photovoltaic system. An unexercised option and one planned modification in the task order could lead to a total award of $10.37 million. The planned modification will include furniture, fixtures, and equipment.”

For anyone who wants details, see http://www.adgcinc.com/MACC0019/RFP.pdf

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Welcome to Prevailing Wage and the US public works system! Why pay $1 for something when you can pay $3 and get mediocre quality?

This is why the Administration’s “Jobs Bill” is nothing other than a pork-laden payoff to Big Labor, the unions and those contributors who gorge at the public works trough.