The Illinois Tollway Authority board approved three professional engineering services contracts totaling more than $10.8 million during its monthly meeting yesterday. The awardees were:
- R.M. Chin and Associates, Inc. (Chicago), for construction management services related to the I-490 Tollway project ($4.8 million);
- Cotter Consulting (Burr Ridge, IL), for construction management services upon request systemwide ($3 million); and
- H.W. Lochner, for planning studies upon request systemwide ($3 million).
Two of the three contracts involve Partnering For Growth program mentorship opportunities. The program “encourages primes and subs to assist disadvantaged, minority and women-owned business enterprise (D/M/WBE) firms and veteran-owned small businesses (VOSBs) in remaining self-sufficient, competitive and profitable. More than 260 mentoring agreements have been put in place since the program started. While the majority of agreements include prime firms mentoring subs, in some cases reverse Partnering for Growth agreements have subs stepping up to assist the prime firms.”