SFMTA Board Approves Contract 1252
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates the Municipal Railway (Muni), today approved the Central Subway tunneling contract at its Board of Directors meeting (press release, PDF). The contract – the largest construction package for the project – was awarded to Barnard Impregilo Healy Joint Venture, as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder in the amount of $233,584,015.00.
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“Investing in the Central Subway is an investment in jobs, in the economic vitality of our city, in safer transit and better commutes for San Francisco’s workers,” said Leader Pelosi, a longtime advocate of this project.
“The Central Subway project is vital to connecting our City to our communities like never before,” said Mayor Edwin M. Lee. “The project invests in jobs, in people, and in our City with critical infrastructure that will improve transportation for all our residents and families.”
SFMTA Board Chairman Tom Nolan said, “The Agency is pleased that the lowest bidder came in under the project engineer’s estimates and in these tough economic times we realize that this project will be a shot in the arm to our local economy sparking economic development, job training and growth, and creating thousands of contracting opportunities for local businesses.”
“We are pleased with the continued support for the project from Washington and our elected officials. The progress the SFMTA has made over the past few years proves that the Central Subway Project is shovel-ready and we’re on track to receive the Full Funding Grant Agreement from the FTA by year’s end,” said Executive Director/CEO Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr. “This tunneling contract is a major part of opening a dynamic, new era in rapid transit for the people of San Francisco, and especially for those traveling along the congested Stockton corridor.”
[SFMTA Press Release: SFMTA Board Approves Tunneling Contract For Central Subway, June 28, 2011]
