Historic residential housing of the kind slated for significant remodeling at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is rare in the Air Force, according to the officer charged with overseeing that and similar projects.
For that reason and others, the cost for remodeling the homes will be high, said Brig. Gen. Mark Slominski, mobilization assistant to the commander of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC). By assignment, Slominski also serves as the Air Force Civil Engineer Center built infrastructure executive director and Facilities Directorate chief.
“They are high. They are higher than what you would expect to spend in a recap (remodeling) of a home off the installation,” Slominski told the Dayton Daily News in a new interview.
The Wright-Patterson home renovation project began to turn heads after a routine U.S. Army Corps of Engineer contract award in December. The Corps awarded a contract to Messer Construction for the renovation of 29 homes on Wright-Patterson — at a cost of about $2.4 million per home.
In January, construction joint venture Vazquez-RWB JV, LLC protested the bid with the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The protest against the $70 million total contract alleged that the project was unfairly awarded to Messer.
In light of the protest, the Army paused work on the project. Officials with the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center at the San Antonio, Texas-Lackland Air Force…
