The Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico today voted unanimously to award the construction contract for the UNM Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion project to a joint venture between Jaynes Corporation of Albuquerque and JE Dunn Construction of Kansas City, Missouri. The companies submitted a low net bid of $129,355,500.
The Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion is a 486,000, six-floor clinical space facility including the UNM Children’s Hospital, maternity center, adult critical care center and more. Construction will take approximately 36 months from groundbreaking to completion.
UNM Children’s Hospital serves more than 50,000 New Mexico children every year. The hospital offers the most comprehensive care for children, available in New Mexico, and has the highest level of intensive care for children suffering from an illness or injury. Pediatric physicians specialize in many areas, including pediatric surgery, neonatology, oncology, cardiology, pulmonary and much more.
The UNM HSC provides added value to health care through leadership in providing innovative, collaborative education; advancing frontiers of science through research critical to the future of health care; delivering health care services that are at the forefront of science; and facilitating partnerships with public and private biomedical and health enterprises. For more information on the UNM Health Sciences Center, visit http://hsc.unm.edu.
Contact: Sam Giammo, (505) 272-3322