The Board of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority voted on March 26 to approve a $ 186.6 million contract with AECOM-KNTB JV for project management consultant services in the second phase of the second phase of Subway on the second MTA avenue.
The joint company is an AECOM team USA INC. and HNTB New York Engineering and Architecture PC. The JV will be responsible for overseeing the works by virtue of three of the four construction contracts associated with the project with a contract period of 91 months. Companies did not respond immediately to the project queries.
“We want to grow our capacity temporarily,” said Janno Lieber, general director of MTA, during a press conference after the meeting. He added that companies provide experience in fields such as tunnel boring and complex systems beyond “meat and potato traffic things such as tracks and signals” in which MTA staff usually focuses.
MTA plans to expand the metro line of the second avenue to about 1.76 miles from 96 street to 125 street and add stations to 106, 116 and 125 streets.
The agency says he received three answers to his request for proposals. The other proposals came from Bechtel Infraestructure Corp. And Second Avenue Subway East Harlem Collaborative, a JV of Jacobs and Tylin Engineering, show the records. MTA staff wrote that AECOM-KNTB originally proposed a cost of $ 238.4 million and reached the non-extracted price through negotiations.
Aecom was also part of a joint design and engineering company that contributed to the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway project. The line began to operate in early 2017.
Contracts packages
MTA awarded a contract of $ 182 million in December 2023 to CAC Industries Inc., based in Queens, for its relocation and remediation/protection of the building. Although this work stopped for a time last year amid concern for funding related to congestion tolls in much of Manhattan, he has returned to work. The management of this contract does not enter the field of work awarded to AECOM-KNTB.
The second construction contract covers the rehabilitation of an existing tunnel segment, more boring in the tunnel, the construction of cross passages and the construction of shells for the streets on 116 and 125 streets. It is currently in hiring, according to MTA.
The third contract would cover the construction of the tunnel and structural shell of the 106th Street Station, and the fourth scope is expected to include the construction of auxiliary stations and buildings, as well as adapting to the stations and tunnels.
During the meeting, the MTA Council also voted to approve a contract modification of $ 59.96 million with Phase 2 Partnership, a joint WSP USA INC. and STV Inc., to advance in the design of the fourth construction contract. The base contract of Phase 2 Partnership was evaluated by $ 120.5 million and increased earlier to $ 195.5 million.
Costs and funding
MTA financed the metro extension in part with $ 3.4 billion The Federal Traffic Administration agreed to provide in November 2023. The project is also part of a working silver that MTA officials have planned to finance with $ 15 billion in bonds to pay with tolls on the New York City congestion price program in the south of 60 Manhattan Street. Last month, the US Department of Transport Officials said that they terminated the approval of the first country program, but MTA continues the program, as it demands dowry officials who seek to end the completion.
The estimated cost of $ 7.7 million has provoked criticism, similar to the first phase of $ 4.5 billion. But instead of considering the cost per mile, Lieber said that the cost should be thought of in terms of how many pilots serves the system and compared the subway driving with the number of people flying in the United States from 2023, the subway had a daily driving of about 3.6 million, according to MTA, compared to 2.9 million Airline passengers, according to the Administration of Federal.
“You have to … have systems that serve more people if you have a greater driving,” said Lieber. “And according to the cost standard per pilot, we are at the end of the real costs.”
