Bay Bridge Officials Receive Two Bids For $1.4-Billion Suspension Span
Prospects for completion of the controversial $6-billion Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge retrofit took a giant step forward on March 22. The California Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee announced that it received two bids for the Self-Anchored Suspension portion of the eastern span. Two years ago, only one bid came in, significantly over engineers' estimate, prompting months of controversy and delay.
The apparent low bidder was a joint venture of Coraopolis, Pa.-based American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, which priced the job at $1.43 billion‹slightly lower than the California Dept. of Transportation estimate of $1.45 billion. The second bid by Omaha, Neb-based Kiewit/Koch Skanska/Manson joint venture was for $1.68 billion. Kiewit Pacific Co. is the lead in a joint venture currently working on the bridge foundations.