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I-94 Drainage Tunnel (DB)

Project information

Scope

I-94 from Burns Avenue to Barrett Avenue, 5,700’ 14.5-ft minimum inner diameter soft ground drainage tunnel, launch shaft, retrieval shaft, two offline drop shafts, junction chamber, pump station, adit tunnel connections, and associated work.

Job number

222848

Control section

82025

Delivery method

Best Value - Design-Build

Contacts

Miranda Spare |517-243-4051
Innovative Contracting Project Manager

Adam Wayne | 248-234-3478
I-94 Senior Project Manager

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Estimated cost

Construction cost: $161,000,000

Anticipated schedule 

Industry forum: September 8, 2025

Issue request for qualifications (RFQ): October 2025

Statement of qualifications (SOQ): November 2025

Notification of short-listed submitters: December 2025

Issue request for proposals (RFP): February 2026

Proposals due: July 2026

Anticipated contract award: September 2026

Project attributes

DBE goal: TBD

Stipend: Yes, amount TBD

 

Request for Information (RFI)

Industry forum announcement

*Anticipated prequalification

Project specific qualifications satisfying minimum threshold requirements for at least three soft ground Tunneling Projects with geotechnical monitoring, completed in the United States and/or Canada of similar scope and complexity using an Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine with a segmental tunnel liner that reached completion or substantial completion within the last ten (10) years as either the Lead Contractor or a Major Participant to the Lead Contractor.

Contractors who have not been assigned an MDOT vendor number or do not have an active MDOT vendor number must submit a Construction Prequalification Application (Form 1313) through MDOT e-Proposal. New users can access e-Proposal through MILogin; a link is provided on the cover page of Form 1313. Contractors applying for prequalification should use the work classification “N” on page 5 of Form 1313 (“Contractor Statement of Experience”); this page may include completed or ongoing relevant projects within the last 5 years in lieu of the one-year time limit on the instructions for completing page 5.

Subclassifications

  • (Fd) Pumphouses
  • (Ea) Grading, Drainage Structures & Agg. Cons
  • (Fa) Bridges and Special Structures

 

*Anticipated primary professional service prequalification

Project specific qualification satisfying a minimum threshold for technical capability as having completed final design of at least three soft ground Tunneling Projects in the United States or and/Canada of similar scope and complexity that reached completion or substantial completion within the last ten (10) years as either the Lead Engineering Firm or a Major Participant to the Lead Engineering Firm.

 

*Anticipated secondary professional service prequalification

Project specific qualification satisfying a minimum threshold for technical capability as having completed hydraulic, venting, and transient modeling of at least three Drainage Tunnel Projects in the United States and/or Canada of similar scope and complexity that reached completion or substantial completion within the last ten (10) years as either the Lead Engineering Firm or a Major Participant to the Lead Engineering Firm

  • Design: Roadway
  • Design - Geotechnical: Advanced
  • Design - Hydraulics II
  • Design - Traffic: Non-Freeway Signing
  • Design - Traffic: Work Zone Maintenance of Traffic
  • Design - Traffic: Work Zone Mobility and Safety
  • Design - Utilities: Pump Stations
  • Design - Utilities: Municipal
  • Design - Utilities: Lighting
  • Design - Buildings
  • Surveying: Construction Staking
  • Surveying: Right of Way
  • Surveying: Roadway