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MHS GYM PROJECT PSS to hold another bidding
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Posted on Oct 13 1999
The Public School System will select next week a company that will be commissioned to undertake the completion of the long-delayed Marianas High School gymnasium project, a PSS facility specialist said yesterday.
“We expect the contract to be awarded by Oct. 27 if we don’t encounter any complications like we did in the past,” PSS facility specialist Chris Fryling said.
Fryling said PSS had two aborted biddings earlier this year.
The first bidding, Fryling said, was canceled by PSS after learning that there was no funds available for the project.
“We thought there were still some leftover from the money used by B&R Construction. When we were about to sign the contract, we found out that we have no more money,” Fryling said.
The second bidding held recently was also canceled after the governor signed into law a bill that transfers from the public works secretary to the education commissioner the expending authority over capital infrastructure money.
Fryling said the passage of the bill subsequently required some changes in the invitation to bid which PSS had prepared for the project.
The project involves cladding of the structure which was constructed by North Pacific Construction.
“The structure has been completed,” Fryling said. “The new contract would cover the completion of the gym by August 2000.”
According to, the contract would be good for 320 days, but PSS hopes to be able to use the gym for this school year’s graduation ceremonies.
MHS gym is almost a decade-old project. Conceptualized in 1991, it received a donation of $1 million from a Japanese company.
It was originally targeted for completion one year after the groundbreaking, but never took off due to contractual and funding problems. (MCM)
