The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has split $128,508,608 between 16 construction projects throughout the state.
In all, the money will be split between three types of projects: construction, maintenance, and safety projects. Construction will take up the lion’s share of $101.2 million. Maintenance will take $23 million, while the safety projects — upgrading traffic signals — will take the remaining $3.5 million.
The highest single award went to Archer Western Construction, LLC, at a total of $76.4 million. That money will go into bridge construction, as well as the widening and reconstruction of seven miles of the I-75/State Route 401 collector distributor system, which runs from State Route 331 to I-285. The next largest clocks in at a significantly smaller $8.3 million, issued to Robinson Paving Company for the resurfacing of 13.8 miles of US-19/State Route 3, running from State Route 3 to the Upson County Line.
Bids for the projects were received on April 19, followed by awards to the lowest qualified bidders on May 3. Total, the funds bring construction contract awards for Fiscal Year 2019 — which began on July 1, 2018 — to $611 million.