Last week, the Ohio Department of Transportation responded to concerns from Ohio Inspector General, Thomas P. Charles, regarding stipends for losing design-build teams on the $450M I-90 Inner Belt Bridge Project.   (See the full response at http://watchdog.ohio.gov/agency_responses/response_2010107.pdf)  ODOT is now requiring losing teams to submit costs of preparing responses to the Request for Proposals in order to receive the $1M stipend.  [...]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Fort Worth District) awarded Mortenson Construction (headquartered in Minneapolis) a $48.9 million design-build contract for a barracks complex at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  HDR Architects is the team architect.  Following is a description of the project from Mortenson’s website: “The new project involves the design and construction of an apartment-style barracks facility for single [...]

The Minnesota Department of Transportation issued an RFP to five design-build teams on June 3.  The project is the Highway 52 Elk Run Interchange.  The teams are: C.S. McCrossan Construction, Inc. Duininck, Inc. Hoffman Construction Company Peterson-Reily Constructors, LLC Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. Technical proposals are due August 13, and price proposals are due August [...]