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Ohio Department of Transportation has announced that three teams have been shortlisted for the Portsmouth Bypasss Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM) project. The list of teams is as follows:

• Portsmouth Bypass Development Partners
  • Equity:  Cintra Infraestructuras S.A.
  • Contractors: Ferrovial Agroman US Corp. and Allan A. Meyers, LP
  • Designers:  Othon, Inc., Mannik & Smith Group, and Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd.
• PWP Portsmouth, LLC
  • Equity:  Plenary Group USA Ltd., Walsh Investors, LLC, and Parsons Enterprises, Inc.
  • Contractors:  Walsh/Trumbull/Parsons - a Construction Joint Venture
  • Designers:  Parsons Transportation Group
• Portsmouth Gateway Group
  • Equity:  ACS Infrastructure Development Inc.., Infrared Capital Partners Limited, and Star America Fund GP
  • Contractors: Dragados, USA, Inc., The Beaver Excavating Company and John R. Jurgensen, Co., Inc. - Design Build Joint Venture
  • Designers:  ms Consultants, Inc.

Only the team led by Macquarie Capital Group Limited and Kiewit Development Company hasn't been qualified for the final round.The RFQ was issued June 7. Statements of qualification for the project were due July 12, but there was an extension allowing firms to submit SOQs by August 9.The estimated investment amount of the project is $600 million.

The investor will recover the investment via Availability Payments over the term of the agreement, commencing at the opening of the entire length of the Portsmouth Bypass. However ODOT has reserved dedicated Appalachian funds from prior years for the Project and is contemplating making these funds available to the Developer upon the achievement of defined work progress milestones. The RFQ states that this will be decided in the RFP stage.

The Portsmouth Bypass is a four-lane, divided, limited-access highway around the City of Portsmouth in Scioto County, Ohio. The highway, to be designated State Route 823 (SR 823), is known as the Portsmouth Bypass and will comprise 16 miles of four lane divided highway, bypassing approximately 26 miles of US 52 and US 23 through Portsmouth. The project includes construction of five new interchanges (U.S. 52, S.R. 140, Shumway Hollow Road, Lucasville Minford Road and U.S. 23.)

Source: ODOT