Highway Engineering

[bwana39]

I just looked at the rfp for engineering on a 15 mile stretch of interstate highway.  Roughly 50% is greenfield. Half if is upgrade existing ROW. The engineering services for said work (with an aproximate 15 year timeline) has a cap at 145,000,000.

THat is almost a million dollars a mile The entirity of it is either rural or the part that isn't rural is MOSTLy within a ROW that was bought and developed over a decade ago. A two-lane bypass was paved  over that part,

I gues the question is a million dollars a mile excessive? What about the staff engineers at the DOT?

[Big John]

First, that is almost $10 million a mile.

The cost of roadway materials have zoomed up in the last few years.  Since it is an Interstate highway, there will be bridges and likely interchanges.  Each bridge will cost a pretty penny to build.  It is common to have 15% of the cost be in engineering.

[bwana39]

I am hoping that I don't understand the RFQ.  I am wondering if the cap is for all of the expense and the engineering is just a portion of the total.

That is not what I feel that I read, but technical terms may have a less generic definition and style than I think I see.  I agree my math was dismal. I completely blew this decimal point.

[jeffandnicole]

Do you have a link to the RFQ or RFP? That appears to be more like estimated construction costs, not the cost of engineering services.