The Florida Department of Transportation has received an unsolicited proposal submitted under the provisions of Section 334.30, Florida Statutes, Public-private transportation facilities, referred to as the “State Road No. 5 (US-1).” The proposal provides improvement, widening and reconstruction of SR-5 between Station 188+00 and
The proposal was submitted by Community Asphalt Corp., and has the purpose of advancing selected projects in the agency five-year Work Program with the advantage of reducing inflationary costs in scheduled construction costs. The proposal offers $109,349,512 of funding, with a possible additional amount of $37,983,750.
Section 334.30, Florida Statutes, requires public notice to be provided after receipt of an unsolicited proposal, and that competing proposals be invited by the Department for a period of 60 days from the date of publication of the first notice, which 60 day period will be until 5:00 p.m., March 6, 2007.
A copy of the Proposal is available for public review and copying at
The Department has determined this unsolicited proposal sufficient for consideration on a preliminary basis and will accept other proposals for the same project purpose during this notification period. No final decision has been made relative to accepting this or any proposal relative to the implementation of the proposed financing. A final decision on the acquisition of the individual projects to be financed will be made separately of this application and will only be made after extensive public involvement, Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and local government input, and public hearing.
All firms that have an interest in submitting a competing proposal under the provisions of Section 334.30, Florida Statutes, are hereby invited to submit to the Secretary of Transportation a proposal in triplicate and with the required fee of $50,000 (Rule 14-107.0011, Florida Administrative Code) within the time frame indicated above. Proposal will be evaluated with the “Draft Guidelines for Public-Private Transportation Facilities” and is available at http://www.dot. state.fl.us/financialplanning/finance/private/transportation_fac ilities.htm. Proposals not meeting the requirements of Section 334.30, Florida Statutes, will be rejected.
Address all proposals to: Florida Department of Transportation,