Infrastructure News - May

RCI-Herzog Awarded Sound Transit Contract

Local contractor RCI has joined with Missouri-based Herzog to build a segment of Sound Transit's light rail project in Seattle's Rainier Valley.

RCI Partners with Herzog To Build Light Rail Segment

Seattle - RCI Construction Group of Sumner, Wash., and Herzog Contracting Corp. of St. Joseph, Mo., were recently awarded a contract by Sound Transit to build a light rail segment in Seattle's Rainier Valley. The partnership is being called RCI-Herzog.

The team will construct a 4.3-mile-segment of Sound Transit's Central Link light rail project between McClellan Street and Boeing Access Road in the Rainier Valley. The $128,302,911 contract includes a 12 percent contingency of $15,396,349, for a total contract amount not to exceed $143,699,260.

RCI-Herzog has committed to a goal of 35 percent small business participation with its subcontractors, and a goal of 20 percent minority- women- and disadvantaged-owned business participation. Sound Transit had set minimum requirements of 20 percent for small business participation and 12 percent for minority- women- and disadvantaged-owned participation.

The total length of Sound Transit's Central Link light rail project is 14 miles, from downtown Seattle to Tukwila, Wash. Construction on the Rainier Valley segment is scheduled to begin in spring 2004. Service is scheduled to begin in 2009.