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?
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.
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.
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.