07-26-2009, 12:43 PM
This is exactly my point. Road & Highway Builders LLC's bid is about 12 million dollars less than the Schedule C engineers estimate (Schedule C entails reconstructing the entire roadway between m.m 11-19).
Yes, Goodfellow's bid is 9 million dollars less. But they've already got equipment staged up there from other phases.It would've been seamless for them to start construction. However Road & Highway Builders will have to ship in all their equipment from the mainland and haul up to the project area. This among the reasons why I'm concerned that they vastly underbid for this phase.
On a related note, there is two remaining phases after this one that have to be done before the road is pau. However the m.m 6-11 is still in the design phase and the m.m 42-Mamalahoa highway is waiting for the SEIS to be completed. Both of these projects will require a lot of money. 75 million for the Kona side and 50 million for the remaining Hilo side phase (not including ROW acquisition costs).