A roughly year-long legal battle over the Florida Dept. of Transportation’s selection of a contractor for an $800-million Miami bridge project is over, with a Fluor-led team officially rejected in favor of an Archer Western-led joint venture.
The Fluor-Astaldi-MCM (FAM) joint venture, which placed second during a best-value procurement process in 2017, argued that FDOT’s selection process wrongly minimized the importance of competitors’ aesthetic scores for the “signature bridge” project. The FAM team had earned higher aesthetic scores than the joint venture of Archer Western and de Moya Group, known as AWD.