KINGMAN – Five Arizona construction firms and another in Colorado have plan holder status and are in position to possibly submit bids to build an Interstate 40 traffic interchange (TI) in Kingman. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is scheduled on Sept. 6 to open bids for the Rancho Santa Fe Parkway TI.
The City has already paid the agency $48.3 million to administer project construction in northeast Kingman.
Arizona entities interested in building the TI include the Tempe-based Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., which recently began work on the new free-flowing TI that will better link US 93 and I-40 in the downtown area. Also in the mix for the Rancho Santa Fe TI are FNF Construction, Inc., Granite Construction Company, Pulice Construction Inc., Fann Contracting, Inc., and Sema Construction, Inc., of Centennial, Colorado.
The Rancho TI will be constructed at milepost 55.85, about three miles east of the I-40 Andy Devine Ave. TI.
“The proposed work consists of constructing two reinforced concrete girder bridges, widening of existing bridges over Rattlesnake Wash, constructing new asphalt concrete and concrete pavement,” ADOT said on its website. It also delineated an assortment of pipe and box culverts and other drainage features, curb, gutter and sidewalk components as well as new signing, pavement marking, traffic signals and lighting and fencing and guardrail installation.
Depending on submission content and related bid dynamics, a construction contract would possibly be awarded at the Arizona State Transportation Board’s Sept. 20 meeting in Sahuarita or its Oct. 18 meeting in Prescott.
Dave Hawkins
