PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center has awarded a $15.6 million base bid to Kirtley-Cole Associates LLC to construct a medical office building in Port Angeles.
The seven commissioners of Clallam County Hospital District 2 voted unanimously in a special meeting Tuesday to award the base bid and three alternate bids totaling $16.2 million to the Everett-based general contractor.
Anchor block
The long-planned, two-story office building and clinic will anchor the block surrounded by Race, Caroline, Washington and Georgiana streets.
It will replace several old medical office buildings across Caroline Street from the hospital.
“It’s really critical to OMC’s future, and I really think this is a good direction for us,” hospital CEO Eric Lewis said.
“It allows us to have the facilities to meet the community’s health care needs in the coming decades.”
The first phase of demolition will begin shortly after the contracts are signed and crews are mobilized, officials said.
Construction of the 42,000-square-foot facility is expected to take 13 months.
Lowest of four bids
Kirtley-Cole submitted the lowest of four bids that OMC received.
Olympic Electric Co. Inc. of Port Angeles got the electrical subcontract.
Shamp Electrical Contracting of Sequim would have subcontracted the electrical work if the second-lowest bidder, Dawson Construction of Bellingham, had been picked.
No general contractor from Clallam County bid the protect. Shamp was the only other subcontractor from the North Olympic Peninsula.
OMC required the general contractor to have built no less than three medical facilities costing at least $3 million apiece, Lewis has said.
Kirtley-Cole has built facilities at Stevens Pavilion at Swedish Edmonds, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon, Everett Clinic, Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and University of Washington Medicine, Lewis said.
“All references came back extremely positive,” Lewis told the board.
“We’re very pleased with the contractor.”
Include a walk-in clinic
The new OMC facility will include a walk-in clinic, which is expected to take pressure off the emergency room.
OMC recently added a walk-in clinic in Sequim.
“We really think it’s critical to get a walk-in clinic for Port Angeles,” Lewis said.
The estimated cost of the medical office building was $15.8 million.
Two alternate bids totaling $302,000 were for the construction of two new parking lots. The project will add a total of 230 parking spots to OMC’s main campus.
Alternate bid
A $342,000 alternate bid was for repairs to the hospital’s central stairwell and wood finish to match the medical office building exterior.
Next Wednesday, OMC commissioners will consider a $157,000 payment to the city of Port Angeles to bury electric utility wires in the block where the new facility will sit.
“It’s important work to do,” Lewis said.
“We have to do it early in the process.”
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
Reporter James Casey contributed to this report.