The Crossville Sports Authority will move forward with a formal bidding process for a six-figure data cabling project at the new recreation facility.
Datacom Cabling’s Jeff Randall told Sports Authority members Tuesday the project scope grew significantly from an initial estimate of $40,000 to a current total of $140,000.
“Got to seeing this building and it’s really, really huge,” Randall said. “So we needed more drops than 55. That included cameras, that included everything. And then we got the new prints about a few months ago and there was paging on there too, and we weren’t aware of the paging.”
Randall said the increase stems from doubling the number of data drops and adding equipment that was not in the original plan.
Project Manager Kevin Chamberlin said the construction contract with American only included the installation of conduits and rough-in tracks. Kevin said the responsibility for running the actual ethernet cables and installing the specialized equipment falls outside the primary construction scope.
“In our scope of work, we provide the conduits, basically the rough-in, all the tracks for everything to be installed,” Chamberlin said. “And then the city was going to work with Jeff or another data cabling company to come in and run ethernet and, you know, cables everywhere that they need to be in order to make sure that the Y has hookups and wireless internet and cameras where cameras are desired to be.”
The board discussed the equipment costs are the responsibility of the Sports Authority, while future service contracts would be handled by the facility operators. Randall said the equipment alone accounts for approximately $50,000 of the total project cost.
The Sports Authority expects to review the results of the cabling bid and the generator research at its next meeting.
