A renewed increase in the price of the day care center in the Miesbach monastery has occupied the city council.
The second rise in costs since February triggered a controversial discussion.
Miesbach - In the current situation, tenders are a gamble - both for municipalities and for craft businesses.
The reason is obvious: the order books are full, material is sometimes hard to come by, prices are constantly up and down, with an upward trend.
The offers are correspondingly more expensive.
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In the case of the Miesbach monastery, which is currently being converted into a children's home, a further increase in costs has now been reported after the project had only been corrected upwards in February to EUR 5.9 million gross.
The invitation to tender for the heating, ventilation, plumbing, electrical and construction work resulted in a gross increase of around 500,000 euros.
While the other trades were within budget and the award of the contract was approved, the carpentry work was massively over the limit at 70 percent.
The problem with this: The carpentry and master builder work are key trades and include a so-called wood-concrete composite ceiling in all rooms of the historic building, which can only be carried out in cooperation with both trades.
The reason for this is the preservation of the listed wooden beam system of the individual floors.
The city is thus in a cost dilemma: will it accept the high offer, or will it launch another tender with an uncertain outcome and a two-month delay, which will jeopardize the start of the next kindergarten year 2022/23?
For Erhard Pohl (CSU), the problem was quickly identified: the complex ceiling construction.
“Is this beamed ceiling visible from below?” he asked the architects Christian Goldbach and Simone Niedderer, who were connected via video.
"No, it's not," Niedderer replied, referring to the required fire protection paneling.
"But the monument protection wants it that way." An answer that allows Pohl only one step: "Then we have to negotiate with the monument protection again.
Why do you insist on a wooden ceiling that you can't see when a concrete ceiling is much cheaper?"
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Planner Goldbach confirmed that the wooden ceiling is "very important" for monument protection.
It's about the question: "How real is what we're doing there?" The planners have the later users in mind here, "the monument protection does not".
What strengthened Pohl in his view: "What you can't see, you don't have to force yourself just because it was like that." It is more important that there is no postponement for the parents.
Markus Seemüller (FWG) agreed: “I would like to put my protest on record.
That's a massive cost increase that you don't see."
Paul Fertl (SPD), on the other hand, had identified the planning office as a weak point.
"Last time we went up 600,000 euros, now it's another 500,000. Something is wrong in the calculation."
According to Goldbach, this was not possible due to an unforeseeable delay in the start of construction due to gutting.
Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller (CSU) made it clear that they wanted to stick to the schedule.
The expansion of the apartments in the building should not be postponed either.
"But we will check whether savings are possible." According to Braunmiller, this also includes negotiations with the monument protection.
As a result, the city council voted unanimously to accept the significantly inflated offer in order to be able to keep to the schedule.
Only Fertl refused his consent.