Taylor Hall expansion, renovation at LSU behind schedule due to contract dispute

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The LSU College of Engineering’s $110 million expansion/renovation of Patrick F. Taylor Hall is running behind schedule, after contract negotiations between the state and the project’s originally selected construction manager—a joint venture of global construction giant Skanska and locally owned MAPP Construction—fell through.

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Though there was no guarantee Skanska-MAPP would continue as construction manager during the project’s building phase, a deal to do so had been expected. However, in negotiating the contract over actual construction costs, Skanska-MAPP came back several million dollars over the project’s $88 million budget, state officials say.

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State officials are now negotiating with The Lemoine Company, which was the second-lowest bidder on the project last year, to be the new construction manager. Moses says he is optimistic the two sides will reach an agreement and that groundbreaking can begin in April or May.

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So reading between the lines: it sounds to me like this was one of those CM At-Risk projects where they got a group of contractors to place a Guaranteed Maximum Price based on an incomplete scope and chose the lowest bidder? And when the scope got better defined, it turns out the lowest bidder didn't have an appropriate contingency?

Anybody have any additional insight?