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I-94 Drainage Tunnel (DB)

Project information

Scope

I-94 from Burns Avenue to Barrett Avenue, 16 to 17-foot inner diameter, 5,835 to 6,135-foot-long soft ground drainage tunnel sized for the 100-year 24-hour storm event, launch shaft, retrieval shaft, two offline drop shafts, junction chamber, pump station, adit tunnel connections, and associated work. Estimated tunnel overburden ranges from 50-feet to 85-feet.

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: $180,000,000 to $200,000,000

Anticipated schedule 

Industry forum: September 8, 2025

Issue request for qualifications (RFQ): October 17, 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 presentation and attendance

*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