Furniture firms win new school bids
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Last updated 4/23/2014 at 11:02am
Drywall tapers work on the hallway outside one of two cafeterias split by kitchens inside the new school complex under construction in Coulee Dam April 11. Two cafeterias and two libraries in the school will help keep the younger students separated from the older students. - Scott Hunter photo
Two furniture manufacturers have been awarded contracts for the new school facility in Coulee Dam, officials announced.
Virco, a California firm, was awarded a $469,156 contract to provide furniture for classrooms in the K-12 facility.
School Specialists, a Seattle firm, was awarded a $183,290 contract to provide furnishings for the offices, art room, libraries, and the elementary cafeteria.
Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson said with the two furniture bids, and with the cost of janitorial supplies and other items that were to be covered by a $1 million reserve, it appears that the school district will be some $150,000 under budget.
Money, he explained, "can be used elsewhere in the new school."
Jim Trimberger, a Virco representative who was in the district about a month ago checking out the rooms in the new building, said if his firm got the bid to furnish the classrooms, the furniture would be trucked to the area about 10 days or two weeks before school opening.
"It will take our crews about 10 days to get everything assembled and placed."
School is scheduled to open in the new facility on Sept. 15.
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