TECHNICAL REFINEMENTS

WMB Heartland Justice Partners

Over the last several weeks, WMB HeartlandMAIN
Justice
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Partners (WMB) has met with City-County Councilors, local stakeholders and community leaders to
discuss the proposed Marion County Justice Center
project (the Project). These discussions were productive and provided WMB with key feedback Based
on those discussions and the resulting feedback WMB
believes that the following two goals must be met: (1)
a modification of the technical scope of the Project to
address key criminal justice reform concerns and (2)
an elimination of the perceived budgetary shortfall
in the early years of the Projects operational phase.
WMB has engaged its technical and financial ex The likely increase in borrowing costs consistent
perts to meet the above stated goals and is proposing
with stated Federal Reserve policy and market
technical refinements (Technical Refinements) to
expectations; and
improve the Project for the good of Indianapolis.
A prohibition on the use of Community Workforce
The Technical Refinements preserve the ability of the
Agreements containing wage scales or schedules
City-County Council to approve the Project on June
in public works projects thereby jeopardizing the
8, 2015 thereby allowing for (i) commercial close
Community Workforce Agreement for the Project
by no later than June 19, 2015, (ii) financial close
(Indianas repeal of the common construction
and the establishment of the Design-Build Date by
wage statute is effective as of June 30, 2015).
no later than June 29, 2015 and (iii) achievement
As described hereafter, the Technical Refinements
of the Schedule Occupancy Date for all facilities
result in cost reductions and avoid any expected
by September 1, 2018. Acceptance of the proposal
budgetary shortfalls.
would allow the Project to take advantage of the
competitive proposal (the Original Proposal) submitted on November 21st by WMB. The failure of I. TECHNICAL REFINEMENTS
the City Council to approve the Project on June 8,
2015 and the resulting delay in the procurement of The Technical Refinements incorporate modifications
to the Adult Detention Center, the Courthouse and,
the Project will likely result in:
the Sheriffs Office after City-County Council and
An increase in costs resulting from continuing stakeholder direction. In addition, the Technical
construction price escalation;
Refinements provide for changes to the overall mechanical and electrical systems following subsequent
A need to renew the Corrections Corporation of
work refining the WMB design.
America (CCA) contract;
The expiration of the Citys option to acquire the As noted below, all refinements will preserve the abilsite proposed for the Project and consequently the ity for future horizontal expansion, consistent with
need to procure a new site, restart all permitting the master plan approach of our proposal. Please refer
and environmental approvals and prepare a new to Section III for updated renderings portraying the
modifications detailed in these Technical Refinements.
design applicable to the new site;

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Consolidated Justice Facility

TABLE 1: Adult Detention Center and Community Corrections

Building

Existing Facilities

Detention
Facilities

4 locations
1 consolidated location
2,500 bed capacity
2,676 bed capacity
including 10 special needs
324 special needs beds
bed

4 locations
Community 520 beds
Corrections 3,000 electronic
monitoring

WMB Original Proposal

WMB Technical
Refinements

The modified proposal reduces the

1 consolidated location
bed count in line with current capacity
2,228 bed capacity
while maintaining the much needed
324 special needs beds
324 special needs beds

1 consolidated location
No change to Original
970 beds
Proposal
7,000 electronic monitoring

Adult Detention Center (ADC) & Community

Corrections (CC)
The Technical Refinements include the following
modifications outlined in Table 1.
By reducing the number of ADC beds, the Technical Refinements will not add additional capacity to
current levels. As the case in the Original Proposal,
the site is programed to allow for future expansion
if required.

Notes

The proposal/ modified proposal

expands CC beds to allow for work
release programs in a low detention
environment as well as increases
electronic monitoring allowing for
faster processing.

Courthouse & Sheriffs Office

In order to achieve the project affordability goal
(described in the Financial Refinements section
below), the Technical Refinements innovatively
combine the Courthouse and Sheriff functions into
a single structure while preserving the identity the
two distinct public functions. The plan preserves the
ability to expand the courts capacity and allow the
Sheriff office to be moved into a standalone building
(and in its original site/configuration per our master
plan) in the future if needed. The program changes
are described in Table 2.

TABLE 2: Courthouse and Sheriffs Office

Building

Existing Facilities

18 courts
Courthouse 13 jury courts
6 hearing rooms

Sheriffs
Office

WMB Original
Proposal
27 courts
1 traffic court
18 jury courts
10 hearing rooms

Three separate
38,510 BGSF of
facilities
Sheriff operations
Undersized in terms of
and support
space standards
spaces (entire C31
Lacks technology
program)
infrastructure

WMB Technical
Refinements
24 courts
1 traffic court
17 jury courts
8 hearing rooms

Relocate 38,510 BGSF

of Sheriff program into
floor of Courthouse

Notes
The Courthouse has ample space to be expanded in
future years without compromising program space.
The modification remove program for a typical
courts floor (level 4 or 5) comprised of 3 nonjury courts, 1 jury court, 2 hearing rooms and
associated support spaces to make space for Sheriff
program per line below.
The campus provides for ample space for Sheriff
office expansion into a separate structure in the
future, in the location provided in the Original
Proposal.
Improves project sustainability (energy savings,
etc.) through consolidation of buildings
Improves Sheriffs functionality as staff members
will be closer to the ADC.

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Consolidated Justice Facility

Other Overall Campus Refinements

After further review of the WMB Original Proposal,
the City and WMB have worked to generate value
engineering improvements that provide benefit to
the City. These alternative design solutions do not
reduce or impact the program design from a quality
perspective. They are included in Table 3.
TABLE 3: Other Overall Campus Refinements
Element

WMB Technical Refinements

Benefits

Mechanical

Eliminate hot water heating system and (1) provide heat in AHU/RTU with natural gas systems and (2)
provide reheat in VAVs with electric reheat coils (low KW coils).
Provide packaged DX cooling systems in lieu of chilled water in strategic locations.
Utilize energy recovery mechanisms only in strategic locations.
Eliminate electric unit heaters in ADC open air areas.
Modify the system selections and zoning to utilize the minimum number of zones while maintaining
compliance with ASHRAE 90.1.
Increase duct and pipe air/water velocity to minimize duct/pipe size while maintaining ASHRAE
requirements for noise and pressure drop in these systems
Eliminate all mechanical references to LEED points
Utilize Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems in strategic locations to minimize duct sizes and equipment costs.

Electrical

Install backup generators at each facility in lieu of generators at the Central Plant.
Eliminate the site loop feed between the Central Plant and each double ended substation.
Provide pad mounted transformers outside of the buildings connected to double ended switchgear
inside the buildings in lieu of current configuration.
Provide aluminum power conductors in the buildings in lieu of current requirements.
Reduce the service size to meet code minimum.
Eliminate the central invertors in all buildings.
Eliminate all the supplemental backup generators at buildings where currently designed.
Provide a single service feed from the Central Plant to each building with a set of spare conduits in
lieu of the redundant service configuration that is currently designed.
Provide open source, code compliant lighting and controls.

Results in cost
savings energy
savings.
Allows for ease of
maintenance.

Provide uninterrupted
power specific to the
WMB design without
unnecessary generic
over-design as
required on the tender
documents.

Conclusion
The Consolidated Justice Center will allow for faster
processing of arrestees, access to diversion programs,
over 15,000 square feet of new program space, day
reporting and counseling, easy access to attorneys
and legal counsel and a custom designated therapeutic
environment. With the Technical Refinements, devised in response to key City-County Council and
stakeholder direction, Indianapolis can move forward
now with a comprehensive, long-term plan.

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Financial Result
The result in a reduction of the Service Fee before
2025 that eliminates the perceived budgetary shortfall described in published material and committee
hearings.

II. FINANCIAL REFINEMENTS

Fixed Price Modification
The Technical Refinements result in a reduction of
the Design-Build price commitment provided with
the Original Proposal driven Building Gross Square
Footage (BGSF) Reductions listed in Table 4 and
by Value Engineering Improvements.

As reflected in the following chart and in the accompanying Financial Model, the resulting Service Fee
is reduced by approximately $31 million (in nominal
terms) between 2018 and 2028 when compared to
the WMB Original Proposal.

TABLE 4: Fixed Price Modifications

WMB Refinements

Change to program (BGSF)

Adult Detention Center

-22,175

Courthouse

-19,790

Sheriffs Office

-38,510

Furthermore, the chart below compares the long term,

fixed service fee on the following basis:
The Bid Upset Limit in the original tender documents (depicted as a solid green line)

The overall reduction to the design build price will

be $17,500,000 resulting in a fixed price of
$390,500,000 as reflected in the Updated Design
Build Agreement. The Projects Contractual Structure
will remain intact and the reduced price will be fully
fixed, removing any risk of price escalation on the
City.
iii.
iv.

The service fee associated with the WMB Original

Proposal (depicted as a solid blue line)
The service fee in the Technical Refinements
based on the US Treasury rate of 2.94% at the
bid date (depicted as a dashed light blue line)

The service fee in the Technical Refinements based

on the US Treasury rate of 2.8%, the rate as of
theservicefeeintheModifiedProposalbasedontheUSTreasuryrateof2.94%atthebiddate
May 28, 2015. (depicted as a dashed yellow line)

(depictedasadashedlightblueline)
The chart also graphs (in red) the Council Staff extheservicefeeintheModifiedProposalbasedontheUSTreasuryrateof2.8%,therateasof
pected shortfall and long-term savings.
May28,2015.(depictedasadashedyellowline)

ServiceThechartalsographs(inred)theCouncilStaffexpectedshortfallandlongtermsavings.
Fee Summary
80

Service Fee Summary

75

USD Millions

70
65
60
55
50

Bid Case Upset Limit

Council Staff LT Savings

WMB Bid

2.8% base
2.94%
baserate
rate

2.94%base
baserate
rate
2.8%

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TheTechnicalRefinementsresultinamoreeconomicalsolutiononaNetPresentValueBasis
(comparingthecostofthefacilityintodaysdollars)whencomparedtoWMBOriginalProposalas
Technical Refinements
reflectedonthefollowingchart.
NetPresentValueComparison(USDmillions)

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Consolidated Justice Facility

The Technical Refinements result in a more economical solution on a Net Present Value Basis (comparing the cost of the facility in todays dollars) when
compared to WMB Original Proposal as reflected
in Table 5.
TABLE 5: Net Present Value Comparison (USD Millions)
WMB
Original Bid

Technical Refinements
(assuming 2.94% base rate)

Technical Refinements
(assuming 2.8% base rate)

Between 2018 - 2028

$324M

$303M

$301M

Over 38 years

$718M

$709M

$695M

Timeframe

An updated Financial Model is available.

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SITE PROGRAM
PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED

PRIMARY UTILITY BUILDING

ADULT DETENTION
WAREHOUSE/QM
INTAKE / KITCHEN /
MEDICAL / MENTAL
HEALTH

COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS

FUTURE LAW
BUILDING +
PARKING

COURTHOUSE

SHERIFF

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REVISED SCHEME

PRIMARY UTILITY BUILDING

ADULT DETENTION
WAREHOUSE/QM
INTAKE / KITCHEN /
MEDICAL / MENTAL
HEALTH

COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS

FUTURE LAW
BUILDING +
PARKING

COURTHOUSE

SHERIFF

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REVISED SCHEME

REVISED SHERIFFS OFFICE WITH

ENTRY AT WEST END OF INTERIOR
ARCADE ON LEVEL 2, THE MAIN
ENTRY FLOOR

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CENTRALIZED LOCATION FOR EASY

ACCESS TO COURTHOUSE, ADULT
DETENTION AND INTAKE/MEDICAL/
MENTAL HEALTH COMPONENTS

ADULT DETENTION
COURTHOUSE

INTAKE
MEDICAL
MENTAL HEALTH

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REVISED SCHEME

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