ODOT officials say it could have cost the state as much as $8.25 million.
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 10/5/20102:21 AM
Last Modified: 10/5/20108:12 AM
A clerical error in the contract to widen a portion of Interstate 44 caused Oklahoma Department of Transportation commissioners to reject the $33.6 million bid for the project Monday.
Commissioners accepted the staff's recommendation and rejected Becco Contractors Inc.'s bid to widen I-44 from two lanes in each direction to three lanes in each direction between Peoria Avenue and Riverside Drive.
The project also includes reworking the area's exit and entrance ramps.
The department's chief engineer, Gary Evans, said the mistake in the contract centers on two conflicting sentences.
One sentence states that the assessment of a time charge would begin the day that the contractor closes a portion of the road.
The following sentence states that the assessment would begin when the contractor begins work.
"There was a direct conflict in the contract of those two statements," Evans said. "It was a clerical error on ODOT's part." FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, October 5, 2010
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