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Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007 | 7:27 a.m.
Eighty-six percent of the contracts awarded from January 1997 to May 2007 by the Clark County School District to build or replace schools went to five general contractors.
Company Contracts Sums
Pace Contracting 31 $522,645,766
Martin-Harris Construction 27 $434,270,881
CORE Construction 18 $364,377,607
Sletten Construction 8 $271,186,606
Roche Constructors 10 $142,691,850
Grove Inc. 2 $46,155,000
Fremont Construction 2 $40,701,792
Clark & Sullivan Constructors 2 $39,574,444
McCarthy Building Cos. 1 $36,430,000
Addison Construction 3 $28,519,450
Rafael Construction 1 $13,678,787
Korte-Bellew & Associates Construction 1 $7,167,629
R&O Construction 1 $6,957,317
Richardson Construction 1 $6,645,403
Carson Construction 1 $6,440,000
TOTAL 109 $1,967,442,532
A Sun analysis of 104 contracts awarded by the Clark County School District for new or replacement school construction from January 1997 to May 2007 found that, more often than not, the district overestimated what the winning bids would be.
Overestimated
Contracts: 57
Total: $67,268,225
Highlights: 17 awarded to Pace Contracting by a total of $22,144,237, 14 awarded to Martin-Harris Construction by a total of $14,053,429, and nine awarded to CORE Construction by a total of $13,359,502
Underestimated
Contracts: 47
Total: $46,556,885
Highlights: 14 awarded to Pace by a total of $14,679,124, nine awarded to CORE by a total of $13,449,850, and four awarded to Roche by a total of $9,399,002
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