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Joint venture offers lowest Crosstown bid

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By MICHAEL SASSO

msasso@tampatrib.com

Published: September 17, 2009

TAMPA - A partnership between PCL Constructors, which has done some of the region's biggest road projects, and Archer Western Contractors appears in the lead to win the huge Interstate 4 Crosstown Connector job.

A joint venture between the two companies, called PCL/Archer Western, was the apparent low bidder on the project Wednesday.

It bid about $442.7 million, beating out the only other bidder, Kiewit Southern Co., said Florida Department of Transportation spokesman John McShaffrey.

Kiewit bid about $459.2 million. DOT uses a complicated formula in deciding road and bridge contracts that factors in monetary payments to a contractor and the time each company expects to take on the project.

Actual payments to PCL/Western may total only $389.5 million when just isolating the monetary payments portion of DOT's formula, McShaffrey said. The company estimated it could finish the project in 1,065 calendar days and is expected to begin work Jan. 19.

The project will connect I-4 with the Selmon Crosstown Expressway near Ybor City.

Reporter Michael Sasso can be reached at (813) 259-7865.

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