Monday, May 23, 2011

NCDOT awards $103M in federal stimulus work - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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million to be spent in the Triangle, Gov. Bev Perdue’e office announced Friday. The 17 projects, which total $102.u million, stretch across 21 counties aroundthe state. Two other resurfacing projects, one on I-440 in Wake Countt and one on U.S. 64 in Nash and Edgecombe counties, will be awardeed if the low bidder demonstrates that it hasmet “goocd faith effort” requirements in attempting to reach the disadvantagec business enterprise goals set forth in the contracts. The slow economuy translated into quite a discounyfor NCDOT. The bids received on all 19 economifc recovery projects came in nearly 25percentr -- or about $36.7 million -- beloww NCDOT estimates.
Work on all contracts will start in late June orearly July. • Resurfacing and shoulderd reconstructionon 3.8 miles of I-540 between I-40 and U.S. 70 in Wake and Durhamm counties. The $2.2 million contract was awarded to of The project is scheduled to start as earluy as July 7 and is slated for completiobn byMay 27, 2010. Resurfacing 11 miles of I-40 from west of Morgaj Road in Johnston County to the SampsonCount line. The $2.2 million contract was awardes toof Wilson. The project is scheduled to begin as earlgy as July 13 and should be completedby Nov. 15. Resurfacing 23.2 miles of U.S. 64 betweenm the Franklin-Nash County line and Winstead Avenu inNash County. The $3.
3 millio n contract was awardedto S.T. Wooten Corp. The project is scheduled to starty as early as July 13 and will be completefby Nov. 15. The Federal Highwah Administration estimates thatevery $1 millionn spent on transportation creates 30 jobs. The department also awardedd contractsworth $63 million for seven non-stimulus but none of those are in the NCDOT will receive a total of $838 milliom in stimulus money, including $735 million for highwag and bridge projects.

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