Hangar contract awarded

The government apparently is going under budget on this one.

Big D Construction of Salt Lake City was awarded in late September a contract for the building of a 38,300 square foot, single story, single bay maintenance hangar at Cannon Air Force Base. Bids from 15 companies were received for the project but Big D’s winning proposal was at $10.8 million.

When the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill authorizing the construction of the hangar, in July of 2008, $18 million was allotted — along with another $8 million to finance a training facility for CV-22 aircraft crews at Cannon.

The estimated completion date for the new hangar is March 28, 2011. The project will include the construction of the primary facility and associated roadways and utilities as well reinforced concrete foundation and floor slabs, steel frames with metal sheathing and masonry veneer.

Other parts of the new hangar will be a standing seam metal roof, fire protection, airfield paving for approach apron, parking areas and lighting.

The money for the project was approved as part of the FY2009 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill in the summer of 2008.

That allocation came on the heels of a supplemental package, signed by President George Bush earlier that same month, which authorized $2.2 billion to purchase five MC-130J and five CV-22 aircraft for Cannon Air Force Base.