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Y -- HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SOL SD PRA BADL 10(2) DUE 082200 POC Program and Administration, 303-716-2017 WEB: Information regarding solicitation opportunities, http://www.cflhd.gov. E-MAIL: Request for plans and specifications, office@addraftaid.com. This project consists of drainage, grading, asphalt recycling, and hot asphalt concrete pavement on 14.065km (largest schedule) of road for SD PRA-BADL 10(2), Badlands Loop Road, Pennington and Jackson Counties, South Dakota. Estimated price range is between $3,000,000 and $8,000,000. PLANS AND SPECS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN BOTH CD-ROM AND PAPER VERSIONS. All bid forms, bid bonds, and other documents required for the bid submittal shall be submitted to FHWA in paper format. Electronic format for the bid submittal documents will not be allowed. Amendments to this solicitation will be issued in paper format to all plan holders and will be posted on the website listed in line 18 of this submittal. FOR PRICING INFORMATION ON PLANS AND SPECS OR TO ORDER PLANS AND SPECS, PLEASE SEND E-MAIL TO A&D DRAFT-AID AT THE ADDRESS LISTED IN LINE 20 BELOW OR CALL A&D AT (303) 573-5757. FOR QUESTIONS CONCERNING PROJECT INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (303) 716-2015 OR (303) 716-2017. The Department of Transportation (DOT)Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), has programs to assist minority, women-owned and disadvantaged business enterprises to acquire short-term working capital and bonding assistance for transportation-related contracts. This is applicable to any eligible prime or subcontractor at any tier. The DOT Bonding Assistance Program enables firms to apply for bid, performance and payment bonds up to $1.0 million per contract. The DOT provides an 80% guaranty on the bond amount to a surety against losses. Loans are also available under the DOT Short Term Lending Program (STLP) at prime interest rates to provide accounts receivable financing. The maximum line of credit is $500,000. For further information and applicable forms concerning the Bonding Assistance Program and/or the STLP, please call (800) 532-1169. Major work items are: lump sum buttress survey and staking; lump sum contractor testing; 1,900 m silt fence; 10,500 m3 roadway excavation; 7,200 m3 subexcavation; 1,300 m3 unclassifiedborrow; 7,800 m3 select borrow; 1,360 m rounding cut slopes; 96,000 m3 lagoon excavating; lump sum construct and remove access road; 5,500 m3 lagoon topsoil stripping; 410 m3 gabions; 36,000 m2 recycled asphalt base; 10,000 t minor crushed aggregate; 29,000 t hot asphalt concrete pavemement; 1,600 t asphalt cement grade PG 64-34; 300 t antistrip additive type 3; 12,855 km continuous cold recycled asphalt base course type A; 350 t emulsified binder; 320 m2 reinforced Portland cement; 1,222 m various sizes reinforced concrete pipe culvert and end sections; 950 m Portland cement concrete curb and gutter; lump sum wastewater lagoon system improvements; 3,000 m3 placing conserved topsoil; 42.045 km temporary pavement markings; lump sum entrance kiosks; lump sum support building. Posted 06/30/00 (W-SN470908). (0182)

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