Are you serious? A quarter of a million dollars will build houses including land and utilities. This is one door.
‘Are you serious? A quarter of a million dollars will build houses including land and utilities. This is one door. “
I take it you have never actually seen a hanger. Ya know the things they keep planes in.
Well, okay, I admit I am not familiar with costs. He is talking about control systems, pulley systems, etc and it is a wide door.
So maybe it is the equivalent of the 600 dollar hammer but I thought it sounded reasonable.
The door is 150 feet wide and tall enough to get a B-1 Bomber through.
It's square footage is more than many houses and more than some lots the houses are on. Repairing it is not the equivalent of fixing a gourmet meal, but it's not a TV dinner either.
One door for an opening 150 feet wide and probably 50 or 60 feet tall weighing several tons.
This isn't like repairing the door for your two-car garage. This is a 150-foot wide door to an aircraft hanger. The door has to meet military standards for security, safety, and various environmental requirements. In addition to the repair of the door (which may or may not involve actually replacing the door itself as the story did not state) other systems related to the door must also be repaired or replaced.
The cost of the hangar door is $246,000, which includes the repair of an electrical drive mechanism, safety devices, door seals, painting, cable and pulley system, control system and other items.
As WAS stated in the story, the contractor won competitions for the construction contracts it received. That means that the contractor bid the jobs based on its best estimates of cost knowing that other contractors were bidding on the same jobs.
Knowing a little bit about the military/government contracting arena, a $246,000 contract for repair to an aircraft hanger door as described in the article is probably reasonable and would not even warrant significant review - especially if it was competitively bid.