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Home > Dragados wins Alaskan Way Tunnel

Dragados wins Alaskan Way Tunnel

Amanda Foley

Written by Amanda Foley on 09/12/2010 in News

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Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP), comprising Dragados-USA, Tutor Perini and HNTB, has submitted the apparent best value design-build bid for Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct (SR 99) Bored Tunnel Replacement.

STP’s price offer came in yesterday – December 9th – slightly higher than runner-up, Seattle Tunneling Group (which includes SA Healy, FCC Construction, Parsons Transportation Group and Halcrow). However, the Dragados-led group earned almost twice as many technical credits based on its schedule, design and surface settlement mitigation proposals, resulting in a lower net value calculated by Washington State Department of Transport (WSDOT).

Both bids came in just under WSDOT’s $1.09 billion price limit, but STP prevailed after winning 72 million technical credits, which were expressed as imaginary dollars for purposes of comparing the overall bid packages, resulting in a bid amount of $1.02 billion.

Price proposal – Tech score = Apparent value

Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP)
$1,089,700,002 – $71,577,000  = $1,018,123,002

Seattle Tunneling Group (STG)
$1,088,302,002 – $38,152,000 = $1,059,150,002

Many of STP’s credits came from its commitment to open the tunnel in late December 2015, a full year ahead of WSDOT’s scheduled completion date. The team will also use a 58ft (17.7m) diameter TBM, slightly larger than WSDOT had considered during planning, which will allow for wider 8ft (2.4m) shoulders each side of the tunnel roadway.

The bid prices were held in sealed envelopes during the bid evaluation process and opened during Thursday afternoon’s announcement – which was broadcast live on the internet – by WSDOT’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program Administrator Ron Paananen. Executives from the winning team slapped backs and shook hands as the numbers were flashed on overhead screens at Sound Transit headquarters.

Following the pronouncement, Washington’s Governor Chris Gregoire won applause from construction labourers in orange vests and hardhats after saying she was going to put them to work: “Over the years we’ve discussed, we’ve debated and we’ve talked about options. Then we’ve talked about them again. We’ve written and read, dozens and dozens of pages of comments, analysis and studies. Today the work is finally coming to fruition. It is time, Ladies and Gentlemen, for the real work; the hard work, which goes beyond pen and paper, to steel and to dirt. We want a future in which our economy is strong, where goods and services flow freely. We want a future in which we, our neighbours and co-workers, can travel safely along a better highway and visit an improved waterfront. Today we are closer to that future. Let’s continue our progress. Let’s move Washington forward. Let’s move the great city of Seattle forward… Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s get her built!”

To view the entire press conference visit: http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=5191014

Or for more information about the project see North American Tunneling Journal’s full-length feature in the December/January print edition.

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