The 40-year design-build-finance-maintain contract has gone to the NYNJ Link Partnership, made up of Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets and Kiewit Development, together with lead contractors Kiewit Infrastructure, Weeks Marine and Massman Construction.
The new cable-stayed bridge will connect Staten Island in New York with Elizabeth in New Jersey. Construction crews will remove the current Goethals Bridge once construction of the replacement is complete.
“The innovative PPP process the agency is using to build a replacement Goethals Bridge will allow the Port Authority to maximise private sector ingenuity and capital, while minimising the use of public funds,” said Port Authority vice chair Scott Rechler. “This is the first time a PPP is being used to build surface transportation infrastructure in the Northeast and we believe it will serve as a model moving forward.”
Construction on the replacement bridge is expected to begin later this year, with initial service starting in late 2016 and substantial completion of the bridge occurring in late 2017.
NYNJ Link Partnership beat two other teams on the shortlist, which had been announced in 2011.
The same meeting of the authority’s commissioners authorised the award of a US$743.3 million contract to raise the deck of the Bayonne Bridge, and a US$15.3 million contract to Crisdel Group to resurface the Outerbridge Crossing.
