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.  [...]