The Arizona Department of Transportation (“ADOT”) announced today it has shortlisted three developer teams vying for the $1.9 billion design-build-maintain contract for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway Project.  The three multidiscipline teams, in alphabetical order, are:

• Connect 202 Partners
  •  Fluor Enterprises Inc.
  • Granite Construction Co.
  • Ames Construction Inc.
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.
  • DBi Services LLC
  • AZTEC Engineering Group, Inc.
  • Stanley Consultants
  • Kleinfelder Group, Inc.
  • AMEC Environmental & Infrasstructure, Inc.
  • The Transtec Group
  • Gunn Communications, Inc.
  • Tierra Right Of Way Services, Ltd.
  • Universal Field Services, Inc.
  • Acquisition Sciences, Ltd.
• South Mountain Development Group
• Kiewit Development Company
• Sundt Construction, Inc.
• Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.
• Parsons Transportation Group Inc.
• Miller Infrastructures Inc.
• Kiewit Infrastructure Group Inc.
• Gannett Fleming, Inc.
• Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
• TY Lin
• Logan Simpson Design, Inc.
• Terracon Consultants, Inc.
• Sunland Asphalt
• Combs Construction Co., Inc.
• Vastco, Inc.
• Central Creative, LLC
• Premier Engineering Corporation
• Ritoch-Powell & Associates
• Al Field & Assocates, LLC
• Overland, Pacific & Cutler, Inc.
• Dragados USA, Inc.
• Flatiron Constructors, Inc.
• Pulice Construction Inc.
• AECOM Infrastructure Inc.
• AECOM Technical Services, Inc.
• ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc.
• Dragados S.A.
• Flatiron Construction Corp.
• AECOM Technical Services, Inc.
• Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras, S.A.
• AECOM Technology Corporation
• Partners for Strategic Action, Inc.
• Tierra Right Of Way Services, Ltd.
• PRR Biz
• First Strategic
• Acquisition Sciences, Ltd.
• FNF Constructiion, Inc.
• Rummel Construction, Inc.
• McNeil Brothers, Inc.
• Roadway Electric LLC
• Andes Engineering
• Dibble Engineering
• DME Consultants, LLC
• Geomatic Consulting Group
• J2 Engineering & Environmental Design, LLC
• Lee Engineering, LLC
• Michael Baker Jr., Inc.
• Ninyo & Moore, Inc.
• POINT Engineers, LLC
• Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
• Structural Grace, Inc.
• Tappendorf Engineering Consultants, PLLC
• Western Technologies, Inc.
• Wilson & Company, Inc.
• South Mountain Mobility Group

ADOT received five statements of qualifications for the project last December, and awaited release of the Project’s record of decision before making its shortlisting determination.  The Federal Highway Administration issued the record of decision last week.

This megaproject includes the design, construction and 30-year maintenance of the last section of the Loop 202 Freeway, which will stretch 22 miles from the Maricopa Freeway segment of Interstate I-10 to the Papago Freeway segment of the I-10 in the southwestern quadrant of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.

The project has been a critical part of the Maricopa Association of Governments Regional Freeway Program since it was first included in funding through Proposition 300 approved by Maricopa County voters in 1985. The freeway is also part of the Regional Transportation Plan funding passed by Maricopa County voters in 2004 through Proposition 400.

The project will be the first highway project procured under Arizona’s public-private-partnership statute, and ADOT’s first design-build-maintain project ever.   ADOT will fund the project capital costs with a combination of available public funds from sales tax revenues and tax-exempt bonds.

ADOT plans to issue the final RFP late this spring, with the best-value selection and award of the design-build-maintain agreement anticipated for the end of this year.