Staff negotiators forced Haskell Co. of Jacksonville, FL, a national general contractor, to honor a promise to build the first phase of the 125,000-sf, 652-bed county jail expansion for $24.8 million on a nine-month track.
Haskell also has to give 77% of its subcontracted work to minority-owned firms and businesses owned by Orange County women. Haskell wanted to give only 40% of the work to minority subs.
After lobbying hard to win the contract from Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Centex-Rooney Construction Co. in September 2000, Haskell officials changed gears last week and demanded $28 million and a 16-month track to do the work, as GlobeSt.com previously reported.
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