Transportation Commission awards $17 million in contracts in February

The Wyoming Department of Transportation will make improvements to the road surface along a section of Interstate 90 between Sheridan and Buffalo.

The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded a $9.8 million contract to Simon Contractors, of Cheyenne, for the surface work in Johnson and Sheridan counties. The commission awarded that and eight other projects during its recent meeting.

For the I-90 work, crews will perform a mill and overlay on about 11 miles of the interstate. Crews will also perform bridge rehabilitation work to six structures in the area by adding a friction surface to the bridges. The contract completion date is June 30, 2021.

Besides the I-90 work, the other contracts the commission awarded include surfacing, bridge and pavement marking work.

S & S Builders, of Gillette, was the low bidder on a $2 million bridge rehabilitation contract for 12 bridges in Campbell, Crook, Johnson and Weston counties.

Crews will perform minor concrete repairs and will resurface some of the bridges. The contract completion date is July 31, 2021.

The commission awarded Streamline Markings Inc., of Billings, Montana, a $1.4 million pavement marking contract in Laramie County. Crews will use modified epoxy and preformed tape to install the markings on interstates 80 and 25 and parts of US 85. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2020.

Lewis & Lewis Inc., of Rock Springs won a $1.6 million contract for pavement, sidewalk, streetlight and storm drain work on a half a mile of WYO 89 in the town of Evanston in Uinta County.

Crews will perform surfacing work on the street, make the sidewalks compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act standards and upgrade the streetlights and storm drains. The contract completion date is Nov. 30, 2020.

Also awarded by the commission were contracts for:

• $614,604 to Streamline Markings Inc. for a pavement marking contract at various locations in Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Crook, Johnson, Laramie, Sheridan and Weston counties by Sept. 20, 2020;
• $486,390 to Streamline Markings Inc. for an epoxy pavement line contract at various locations in Sublette, Sweetwater and Teton counties by Oct. 31, 2020;
• $203,900 to Harvey Contractors, of Englewood, Colorado, for a pavement marking contract on WYO 258 between Gannet Street and Yellowstone Highway in Casper in Natrona County by Oct. 31, 2020;
• $340,225 to S & L Industrial, of Cowley, for a pavement marking contract at various locations in Albany, Carbon and Laramie counties by Oct. 31, 2020; and
• $205,650 to Keyhole Technologies, of Casper, for a pavement marking contract at various locations in Natrona County by Oct. 31, 2020.

For additional information about this news release, contact Aimee Inama, senior Public Affairs specialist, at (307) 777-4013.