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Port of Long Beach Tentatively OKs $649.5 Million Bid on Bridge Project

The team headed by Shimmick Construction, FCC Construction and Impregilo is the apparent "best value" proposer for the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project design-build contract at the Port of Long Beach, port authority officials announced May 4. The project bid…

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is $649.5 million. Port staffers expect to submit a recommendation May 14 to the port's Board of Harbor Commissioners to consider a "notice of intent" to award the contract. A decision by the board is expected in late June, with work to start in early 2013. The total cost of the bridge replacement project is estimated at about $1 billion, including site preparation, demolition and other considerations.