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File #: 15-24551    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Consent Item Status: Approved
File created: 6/4/2025 In control: City Council Business Meeting
On agenda: 8/11/2025 Final action: 8/11/2025
Title: Airport Fourth Parallel Runway Taxiway and Navigational Aid Construction

Title

Airport Fourth Parallel Runway Taxiway and Navigational Aid Construction

 

Action

Action                     

Approve a contract in the amount of $84,160,852.27 to the lowest responsive bidder Hi-Way Paving, Inc. and ES Wagner Company, LLC, a Joint Venture, for the Fourth Parallel Runway Taxiway and Navigational Aid construction project.

 

Body

Staff Resource(s):

Haley Gentry, Aviation

Jack Christine, Aviation

 

Explanation

§                     The Fourth Parallel Runway Program will enhance airfield capacity and operational efficiency and reduce the number of active runway crossings.

§                     The overall program consists of ten packages of work. This package includes the construction of parallel Taxiway H, connector Taxiway K, the Airport’s fourth Remote Transmitter/ Receivers Facility, and Runway 1C-19C Navigational Aids (NAVAIDs).

§                     This contract is to provide for pavement demolition and placement, access road installation, traffic control, grading, drainage, erosion and sediment control, pavement markings, airfield electrical installation, and NAVAID infrastructure, including all associated utilities and sitework.

§                     On April 29, 2025, the city issued an Invitation to Bid; three bids were received.

§                     Hi-Way Paving, Inc. and ES Wagner Company, LLC, a Joint Venture were selected as the lowest responsive, responsible bidder.

§                     The project is anticipated to be complete by the second quarter of fiscal year 2028.

 

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

Established DBE Goal: 12.00%

Committed DBE Goal: 12.01%

Hi-Way Paving, Inc. and ES Wagner Company, LLC, a Joint Venture, exceeded the established contract goal and have committed 12.01% ($10,110,000) of the base bid amount to the following DBE-certified firm(s):

§                     Archangel Protective Services (DBE) ($3,610,000) (flaggers and escorts)

§                     Express Logistics (DBE) ($4,300,000) (furnish and haul aggregates)

§                     Martin Landscaping Co. (DBE) ($2,200,000) (seeding, mulching and erosion control)

 

Fiscal Note

Funding: Aviation Capital Investment Plan