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I-94 Drainage Tunnel (DB)

I-94 Drainage Tunnel (DB)

Project information

Scope

I-94 from Burns Avenue to Barrett Avenue, 5,700’ 14.5-ft 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

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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A map of I-94 showing the project limits and different routes.

Estimated cost

Construction cost: $161,000,000

Anticipated schedule 

Industry forum: June 2025

Issue request for qualifications (RFQ): August 2025

Statement of qualifications (SOQ): September 2025

Notification of short-listed submitters: September 2025

Issue request for proposals (RFP): October 2025

Proposals due: February 2026

Anticipated contract award: March 2026

Project attributes

DBE goal: TBD

Stipend: TBD

*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.

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

 

* The anticipated prequalification requirements listed are subject to change. Additional prequalification classification(s) may be included in the RFQ and RFP.