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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) announced today it has shortlisted three developer teams vying for the $1.9 billion design-build-maintain contract for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway Project.  The three multidiscipline teams, in alphabetical order, are:

• Connect 202 Partners

  •  Fluor Enterprises Inc.
  • Granite Construction Co.
  • Ames Construction Inc.
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.
  • DBi Services LLC
  • AZTEC Engineering Group, Inc.
  • Stanley Consultants
  • Kleinfelder Group, Inc.
  • AMEC Environmental & Infrasstructure, Inc.
  • The Transtec Group
  • Gunn Communications, Inc.

The Arizona Department of Transportation received on December 10 statements of qualifications from five teams vying for a design-build-maintain contract for the $1.9 billion Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway Project.  The submitting teams are:

1.  Connect 202 Partners

• Fluor Entreprises Inc.
• Granite Construction Co.
• Ames Construction Inc.
• Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.
• DBi Services LLC

2.  South Mountain Mobility Group

• Dragados USA, Inc.
• Flatiron Constructors, Inc.
• Pulice Construction Inc.
• AECOM Infrastructure Inc.
• AECOM Technical Services
• ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc.

The Arizona Department of Transportation announced today its decision to deliver the $1.9 billion South Mountain Freeway Project under a single design-build-maintain public-private partnership.  While there will be a long-term maintenance component, ADOT, in collaboration with the Maricopa Association of Governments and the Arizona Division of the Federal Highway Administration, has decided to use available public funds together with public financing to pay for the project.

ADOT received an unsolicited proposal for the project more than a year ago.  Under its P3 ...

Yesterday the Arizona Department of Transportation issued to the P3 and design-build industry a Request for Information for the South Mountain Freeway project. ADOT is seeking perspective and feedback from lead developers, design-build contractors, maintenance contractors, and equity investors on a list of questions, and is providing an opportunity for industry input on the overall procurement process for the project.

Responses are requested by February 25. ADOT will convene and open industry forum on the project at the ADOT auditorium on February 27, and the industry has ...

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and Infrastructure Corporation of America (ICA) have entered into a concession agreement under which ICA will operate and maintain ADOT’s 14 highway rest areas.  The concession agreement is the first agreement ADOT has executed under its public-private partnership (P3) statute, which has been in place since 2009, and is one of several P3 opportunities ADOT is pursuing.

ADOT’s concession agreement with ICA went into effect on October 1st and has an initial term of five years.  ADOT may, at its discretion, extend the term of the ...