State seeks designers for four Mt. Edgecumbe High School projects in Sitka

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is seeking architects and engineers to design four projects at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka. The department opened the solicitation Friday, and proposals are due by 4 pm Dec. 7, according to the notice.

The department intends to negotiate an agreement with the firm it selects. That firm would produce bid-ready construction plans, specifications and cost estimates for the four projects. The design work is expected to cost more than $1 million, and the agreement would run from about January 2027 to January 2030.

The notice does not name the four projects. Descriptions are in the full proposal package, which is available on Bidx.

Mt. Edgecumbe is Alaska's state-run boarding school. It is operated by the state Department of Education and Early Development, not a local district, and has served students from across Alaska since 1947. A 2010 Sitka coordinated transit plan put average attendance at about 400 students. A campus master plan update from about 2010 says most campus buildings were built by the military in the early 1940s. One is said to date to 1909, and the academic building dates from 1988-1990.

The state capital budget lawmakers passed in May sends $24.3 million to fix up the campus. That includes dining hall and kitchen renovations, student housing upgrades and replacement of the academic building envelope. The notice does not say whether these four design projects draw on that money.

The state opened a separate solicitation the same day for a part-time mental health clinician for the school's dorms, with proposals due Nov. 30.