County narrows justice center design/build teams down to two

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Earlier this spring, Perry County sought statement of qualifications for the task of design/building the joint justice center.
The Perry County Commissioners, in a May 6 letter, said after a selection committee review, that it plans to proceed with the two design/build teams which received the top scores. They include: Robinson Industrial, Heavy & Commercial Contracting/Goldberg Architects and Zoellner Construction/DillePollard Architects.
Four groups responded to the state of qualifications request. In addition to Robinson Industrial/Goldberg and Zoellner Construction/DillePollard, proposals also were provided by Little Dixie Construction/HMN Architects and SEH/HOK Architects/Kiefner Bros Contracting.
“This is a once in a century project for Perry County and to have four qualified design-build teams participate in this extensive process is humbling to us, our working team and the officials and employees who will call the new facility home,” said Presiding Commissioner Mike Sauer, District 1 Commissioner Jay Wengert and District 2 Commissioner Keith Hoehn in a joint statement.

“The scoring came in with those two at the top,” Sauer said Monday afternoon.
Sauer said both the references and experiences of all four of the statement of qualifications were evaluated by the selection committee.
“We put the numbers together with which two were the right fit for us,” Sauer said.
The county commission will likely get requests for proposals back from the two finalists next month.
“We had to evaluate the whole group of how they worked together,” said presiding commissioner Mike Sauer.