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Details - RFP 319-25-015
Adv ID: 5
Procurement #: 319-25-015
Advertised Date: 07/31/2025
Submittal Due Date: 09/15/2025 01:00 PM
Compensation Type: Specific Rate of Compensation
Funding Type: Federal, State
Question Deadline: 08/20/2025 01:00 PM
DBE Goal: N/A
Status: Notice of Intent-Pending Negotiations
County(s): Washoe County
Program Officer: Gina Olivarez
Notice of Intent: 10/30/2025
Project Title: I-80 East Vista to USA Parkway Widening Project
Background: The Department is procuring a Progressive Design-Build Team (PDB Team) for the I-80 East Vista to USA Parkway Widening Project. The intent of the Progressive Design-Build (PDB) delivery method is to guide a coordinated team with the Department (as the owner), the PDB Team, an Independent Cost Estimator (ICE), and the Department's program manager and construction engineering service providers to complete the Project preconstruction and construction phases. The 13-mile stretch of I-80 from Vista Boulevard to USA Parkway is a critical commuter link connecting Reno-Sparks to USA Parkway, which is a primary access point to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). TRIC encompasses over 160 square miles and provides over 30,000 developable acres, which are sold out and anticipated to create 35,000 to 50,000 jobs over the next 20 years. Safety is a primary concern of the 13-mile corridor due to limited shoulders and only having two lanes in each direction. Due to limited corridor capacity and alternative routes, crash events can create severe congestion limiting first responders' ability to respond and causing secondary crashes.  This Project will provide safety and capacity improvements along I-80 from Vista Boulevard to USA Parkway interchanges, this 13-mile stretch of interstate is a critical commuter link connecting Reno-Sparks to USA Parkway. An additional lane in each direction along with widening of outside and inside shoulders throughout the 13-mile corridor, interchange enhancements will also be constructed throughout the corridor to provide safer ingress and egress from I-80. Median barrier rail, improved signing, and intelligent transportation system (ITS) elements, including wrong-way driver detection, will also be installed within the corridor to enhance safety and provide additional area for first responder access and ability to clear the crash scene.
Project Scope: The PDB Team is responsible for and required to: Gain a thorough understanding of the Project; Prepare, update, and follow an overall Project schedule and approach; Provide professional services and collaboration as part of the Project Team to propose value-added ideas and concepts, create or confirm the Project's basis of design, and advance said design (ultimately being responsible for the final design of the Project as the designer-of-record); Work together through plan and specification development to streamline the design process and ensure the constructability of the Project; Estimate and discuss the construction costs and schedule impacts of the Project during regular coordination points and at the noted pricing milestones; Negotiate, in good faith, with the Department and the ICE to reconcile variances in the Project estimates; and Provide a final guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for final design and a construction once design for the Project (or any portion thereof) has been sufficiently finalized to determine a fair and reasonable price that is provable and agreeable to the Department. The PDB Team will coordinate and work with the Department, a Program Manager retained by the Department, an ICE, a Price Facilitator, and identified stakeholders. See RFP for full Scope of Services.
Project Schedule: Preconstruction phase to begin January 2026 and reach a GMP by the Spring of 2027, with the final design and construction phase completed earlier than the Spring of 2031.