SFPUC Awards $215. 3 Million Contract for Water Delivery Tunnel
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission recently approved a contract with Michels/JayDee/Coluccio Joint Venture (MJC) to construct the first tunnel under the San Francisco Bay. This tunnel will ensure delivery of drinking water from the Hetch Hetchy Valley to Bay Area customers in Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties after a major seismic event or other system outages.
MJC submitted the lowest responsive bid at $215,294,530 of the four received for this project. The next bid was within $100,000. Throughout 2009, bids on WSIP projects have regularly come in 20% to 30% below the engineering estimate for this $4.6 billion dollar Hetch Hetchy Water System Improvement Program (WSIP).