The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has awarded a $226.6-million contract for the New Irvington Tunnel project to a joint venture of Southland Contracting Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, and Tutor Perini Corp. of Sylmar.
The bid that Southland/Tutor Perini JV submitted, the lowest qualified bid, was $26.6 million below the SFPUC’s engineers’ original estimate.