Potential Savings Information
The Transportation Breakthrough Team of The Kansas Collaborative has been working to create savings by taking advantage of the presence of KDOT in a county and city doing overlay projects. Every year there are multiple opportunities to create this cost savings coordination between KDOT, counties and cities. The team understands that it will require additional work to gather information, check out the bidding requirements and much more. Now we have some documentation of savings that can be achieved when you do this extra work. Wayne Blackbourn, the Coffey County Engineer has filed the following report that needs to be shared among commissioners and public works around the state. Please give him a call if you have questions. Let’s figure out how we can turn the presence of KDOT into savings for your county.
The following list of projects was bid this year with the intention of capitalizing on the cost savings to the county from contractors working in the county on state projects. The project A2701-C shows a direct benefit from the Bid of SeKan ($251,049.30) to Apac ($348,275.46) saving the county $97,226.16. Part of the savings is from the mobilization cost of $64,000 as per bid on the state project K031-106 KA 0660-01. The other project A2702-C was sent out for bid just after Killough Construction had completed project U075-016 K 9793-01. So, mobilization was not a factor in the bidding process for project A2702-C.
Project No. A2701-C
Published April, 27, 2007
BM-2 Asphalt Mix Commercial grade asphalt Quantity 5,914 Tons. Total length was 2 miles and 27 foot wide.
Included in the Asphalt unit price was mobilization, traffic control, selected milling and temporary pavement markings.
Received bids on May 17, 2007 from Apac-Shears, (Emporia) Bid of $58.89 per ton total bid $348,275.46, Se-Kan (Gas) Bid of $42.45 per ton total bid $ 251,049.30. Killough Construction (Ottawa) Bid of $47.85 per ton total bid $282,984.90 Low Bid was Se-Kan for $42.45 per ton total bid $ 251,049.30.
Piggyback Project: State Project K031-106 KA 0660-01 Surface Recycle & Bituminous Overlay, length of project was 29.61 miles. Se-Kan was low Bid at $1,587,493.06 Bid item mobilization= $64,000.00
Project No. A2702-C
Published August 03, 2007
BM-2 Asphalt Mix Commercial grade asphalt Quantity 12,200 Tons. Total length was 7 miles and 26 foot wide.
Included in the Asphalt unit price was mobilization, traffic control, selected milling and temporary pavement markings.
Received bids on August 22, 2007 from Apac-Shears, (Emporia) Bid of $48.21 per ton total bid $588,162, Se-Kan (Gas) Bid of $46.97 per ton total bid $ 573,034.00. Killough Construction (Ottawa) Bid of $48.40 per ton total bid $590,480.00 Low Bid was Se-Kan Bid of $46.97 per ton total bid $ 573,034.00
Piggyback Project: State Project U075-016 K 9793-01 Grading & Bituminous Surfacing, length of project was 0.29 miles. Killough Construction Inc was low Bid at $294,283.85 Bid item mobilization= $11,100.00
As Wayne concludes, “The cost savings to the counties on mobilization are measurable and should be utilized by sharing information between the State, Counties and the Contractors.” If you need any additional information on these savings, please contact Wayne Blackbourn, Coffey County Engineer, at 620-364-2441.
Until next month…
Kathleen and Joel