Salt Lake City-based Big-D Construction is part of a consortium that has been awarded a $1.2 billion contract to build a data center for U.S. intelligence agencies at Camp Williams. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced late Friday that it had selected the joint venture of Balfour Beatty/DPR/Big-D to build the 1.5 million-square-foot facility for the National Security Agency.
Big D’s team was one of five finalists for the coveted contract. Two of the other four bidders also involved Salt Lake City companies. Jacobsen Construction had teamed up with Turner Construction of New York City and Kiewit Building Group of Omaha. Okland Construction had formed a partnership with New Jersey-based Skanska USA.
Construction of the data center is expected to be completed by June 2012. It will include 100,000 square feet of computer space, where the country’s intelligence agencies will collect data to be used by the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to protect national security networks and issue warnings about cyber-security threats. The Salt Lake Tribune
