Chicago firm gets NGIC contract

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to a Chicago firm to design and build the Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility on U.S. 29 north of Charlottesville.
The facility will be built on 46 acres at Rivanna Station next to the National Ground Intelligence Center, a spokeswoman for the Corps of Engineers in Norfolk announced Wednesday.
The design-build contract is worth $58.5 million with an additional option, worth almost $2.5 million, to design and build a new entrance and visitor control center for Rivanna Station.
Archer Western Contractors of Chicago was issued the contract Tuesday to build a facility of between 168,000 and 170,500 gross square feet to house analytical functions of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Ground Intelligence Center.
The facility is being designed to accommodate 1,000 people and with parking for 625 vehicles.
The Department of Defense estimates this Base Realignment and Closure action will bring about 1,500 long-term jobs to the Charlottesville area both in the direct additional government and defense contractor workforce that will be housed in the facility and in indirect workforce, such as in the service industry, generated as a byproduct.