Missouri DOT prequalifies groups for the Fortify I-70 Challenge, aiming so as to add a 3rd lane in every course. Groups, together with Ames Building and Capital Paving, will put up proposals in 2025 for a possible spring contract variety.
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The Missouri Division of Transportation (MoDOT) has gained Statements of {Qualifications} (SOQs) from groups enthusiastic about competing for the contract to design and assemble the 3rd challenge of MoDOT’s statewide Fortify I-70 Program. Fortify I-70: Blue Springs to Odessa will upload a 3rd lane every course on Interstate 70 from simply west of MO Course 7 in Blue Springs to only east of Johnson Power in Odessa. The challenge additionally contains interchange enhancements at MO 131 in Odessa.
Missouri’s FY2024 price range from the overall meeting signed into regulation through Gov. Mike Parson supplies $2.8 billion on the whole earnings for the prices to construct a 3rd lane of Interstate 70 around the state. This system will plan, design, assemble, reconstruct, rehabilitate and upload 3 lanes in every course on roughly 200 mi. of I-70, from Blue Springs to Wentzville.
The pre-qualified groups are as follows:
- Ames Building — Ames Building with designers Parsons Transportation Workforce
- Capital – HDR — Capital Paving and Building and Michels Street and Stone with designers HDR Engineering and TranSystems
- Fortify 70 Alliance — Emery Sapp & Sons and Clarkson Building with designers HNTB and Bartlett and West
- MasTec Design-Construct Staff — William Charles Building Corporate LLC and Koss Building Corporate with designers T.Y. Lin Global and Horner and Shifrin
- Radmacher-Ideker Joint Mission — Radmacher Brothers Excavating Inc. and Ideker with designers Wilson and Corporate Inc.
MoDOT will factor the request for proposals in January 2025 to those groups to paintings via construction in their design-build proposals for the challenge. The dept will paintings during the procurement procedure with those groups, who will put up their proposal for the possible collection of the profitable contract in spring 2025. Building may get started as early as summer season 2025. There are nonetheless alternatives for added experts and subcontracting companies to be added to every group.
Design-build is a challenge supply means that mixes each the design and building stages into one contract. The chosen contract group completes the design and building in parallel as a substitute of in succession, which saves time and assets.
The challenge targets are as follows:
- Ship the challenge through Dec. 31, 2028, inside the program price range.
- Supply an extra lane of go back and forth in every course on I-70 from Blue Springs to Odessa.
- Modernize I-70 whilst bettering the present pavement, bridges and interchanges to strengthen protection and mobility.
- Reduce building affects with a focal point on paintings zone protection, conversation and building staging whilst keeping up mobility.
- Supply expanded employment alternatives whilst growing and the use of a various body of workers.
For more info, name 888/ASK-MODOT (275/6636) or consult with modot.org.
