CUMMING -- The Forsyth County Board of Education unanimously agreed on a general contractor for the school system’s next high school at a work session Thursday afternoon.

Carroll Daniel Construction will oversee the build-out of the Alliance Academy for Innovation of Cumming-Forsyth County, an alternative public high school that will be a career and workforce development campus.

“[We had] five competitors, two of which were fierce competition and [had] tremendous qualifications and were within budget,” said Tom Wening, director of construction for the school system.

The Alliance Academy, a college and career academy, will be the district’s seventh public high school, adding to the five brick-and-mortar campuses already in existence and the Forsyth Virtual Academy.

It will focus on real-life training and certification for high-demand, high-growth, high-wage professions and is expected to open in August 2018 for an eventual about 1,200 students.

The committee used a point system to rank the various contractors, evaluating them in each of six categories.

The criteria were base proposal price, offeror overview, related experience, qualification experience of personnel, offeror’s evaluation and qualification/experience of subcontractors.

Carroll Daniel received 100 out of 100 points, with Evergreen Construction coming in second with 97.1 points.

The project is expected to cost $28,891,930.

The state will reimburse the county nearly $14 million of that through the Georgia Department of Education’s Capital Outlay Program.

Wening called Carroll Daniel’s proposal “most advantageous to the board.”

The company is based out of Gainesville and has worked on Forsyth County schools previously.