Denver's Regional Transportation District (RTD) staff on Tuesday evening, Feb. 3, 2015, presented a final list to RTD's Board of Directors of four supplier teams interested to bid on building out the Southeast Rail Extension.
The extension, part of RTD's FasTracks plan approved by voters in 2004, will add 2.3 miles of light rail transit right-of-way.
Seven construction teams had initially responded to the Request for Qualifications, RTD said. The final four teams selected to bid on the project are:
Balfour Beatty Infrastructure with Parson Brinkerhoff (serving as prime contractor and performing systems and design work) ;
Graham-Kraemer Joint Venture (prime contractor), including Modern Railway Systems (systems) and Stantec (design);
Kiewit (prime contractor) , along with Mass Electric (systems) and Hatch Mott McDonald (design); and
Stacy Witbeck-Herzog-Wadsworth Joint Venture, including Modern Railway Systems (systems) and STV, Inc. (design).
RTD noted that last July, the RTD Board authorized a $207 million extension of the existing Southeast Light Rail Line farther south into Lone Tree. RTD has applied for $92 million in federal funds and has been accepted into the first phase of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) New Starts Capital Investment Program.
Additionally, local business associations and businesses in the southeast metro Denver area have committed to contributing $25 million in cash and $15 million in right-of-way, permits, and other in-kind contributions to get the light rail extension project completed, RTD said. The local match would comprise 16.5% of the project cost and far exceeds the 2.5% match RTD has asked of its local partners. Of the project's total $207 million cost, RTD's investment would be $66 million, or roughly 32%, RTD said.