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According to city documents, six firms submitted bids for a project to build a new Emergency Coordination Center for the city of Portland.

The 28,500-square-foot building was designed by and will be the headquarters of the Portland Office of Emergency Management and the Portland Water Bureau’s emergency response and security teams for regular use. In the event of a major natural or man-made emergency, the ECC would be where a response would be coordinated for the city.

Bid documents slated expected construction costs to be around $11 million, but it looks as though bids came in below that amount. The six firms that responded to the city’s request for bids were , , , , and . Triplett Wellman was the low bidder with a $10,280,000 bid, which was $70,000 less than Emerick Construction’s bid.

Triplett Wellman Vice President of Sales Nick Wellman said that his firm had not received a notice of intent to award from the city, but he knows the firm is the 鈥渁pparent low bidder鈥� on the project and would expect an official update in the coming week.