Audit Outlines Errors in McKinley High School Renovation Plan

From today's Washington Times:

The $25 million renovation of McKinley Technology High School in Northeast has cost more than $80 million because of questionable contracting and design errors, a D.C. audit reports.

The report by D.C. City Auditor Deborah K. Nichols singles out for criticism the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which served as project manager for the McKinley renovation under a deal with the public school system. The Army Corps issued more than $11.2 million in no-bid contracts for the project, including more than $6 million to D.C.-based McKissack & McKissack, an architectural firm.

The Corps responds:

But Army Corps officials said the project was budgeted at $76.5 million, not $25 million, and that costs have risen about 5.8 percent above original projections.

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