CPSD Opens Bids on Hudtloff Project

Construction of a new Hudtloff Middle School is moving forward, as the Clover Park School District seeks bids for a general contractor for the project.

It is a multi-process one, said Lynn Wilson, the district’s director of business services, operations and capital projects.

"Advertisement for bids went out yesterday and will be advertised again on the 13^th,” Wilson said. “We have a mandatory site review on the 16th. The district is in the process of completing the D6 (application) for state funding."

The mandatory pre-bid walk-through for companies planning to bid as a prime contractor will be held at Hudtloff, 8102 Phillips Road SW.

“It’s so people fully understand the scope of the project and location and site and so forth, and then they can gather their documents and put in a bid,” said Kim Prentice, the district’s director of community relations.

Sealed bids are due by 2 p.m. on July 12 to the district’s purchasing office at CPSD headquarters, 10903 Gravelly Lake Drive SW.

The new school is a state-funded project through the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. It is expected to cost about $48 million, including $10 million in state funds.

The new school, a 100,000-square-foot, two-story building, will house about 800 students in grades six through eight. It is about 12,700 square feet larger than the existing facility built in 1957. The project includes sports fields, tennis courts and demolition of the current building.

Among the new additions are a music room and a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) lab for students to do robotics, which are currently done in a portable classroom. It will be connected to a manufacturing lab in hopes that students will be able to build and then program their work.

Students are expected to move into the new school in spring 2013, and field work will be complete by that December.

The new Hudtloff will be constructed between the existing school, the west field and north property line. There will be two access points: one for parent drop-offs and one for buses. The latter will be to the south, near Custer Elementary.

Integrus Architecture is the architect and Aeda Construction Management will serve as the owner representative. The district is the project owner.

Construction of a new middle school is part of a $92 million school-construction bond proposition approved by voters in February 2010. In addition to the Hudtloff project, the district will build a new school for the consolidated Oakwood and Southgate elementaries, and a new Harrison Prep Academy. Both will be located on property adjacent to Clover Park Technical College.