Smaller Contracts – Greater opportunities for more firms to work on Move Illinois
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Big construction projects usually mean big contracts. But that’s no reason not to work to expand opportunities for a variety of businesses to work on our 15-year, $12 billion capital program Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future.
The Tollway is working to ensure that a variety of large construction contracts are “unbundled” into smaller contract opportunities to encourage small and diverse businesses to compete for work. In addition to unbundling contracts and raising awareness of these opportunities, we are also working to help new businesses learn how to navigate our contract and bidding process through outreach and workshops tailored to prepare them to bid on Tollway contracts.
And, we are starting to see the results of our efforts.
We are pleased to report that three new firms won prime roles on four unbundled construction contracts last year. And, recent contract awards include two firms who will serve as prime contractors to the Tollway for the first time and who are also certified minority business enterprise firms.
We are looking for the best and brightest businesses, regardless of size, to work on Move Illinois. Businesses interested in working with the Tollway should visit the “Doing Business” section on the Tollway’s website for more information.
About Move Illinois
The Illinois Tollway’s $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future, will improve mobility, relieve congestion, reduce pollution, create as many as 120,000 jobs and link economies across the Midwest region. Move Illinois will address the remaining needs of the existing Tollway system; rebuild and widen the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) as a state-of-the-art 21st century corridor; construct a new interchange to connect the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) to I-57; build a new, all-electronic Elgin O’Hare Western Access and fund planning studies for the Illinois Route 53/120 Extension and the Illiana Expressway.
