Commission set to award $38 million for Lincoln Road, 41st Street and Normandy Isle street work

Miami Beach is ready to hire contractors for three long-planned street projects worth about $38 million combined, according to procurement memos on the City Commission’s Nov. 18 agenda. All three are on the consent agenda, and the memos say each solicitation is under the city’s cone of silence.

Lincoln Road Mall: $21.5 million

Persons Services Corp. was the low bidder of six to rebuild the Lincoln Road Mall from Lenox Avenue to Washington Avenue, with new gateway signs at Alton Road and Washington. The work includes paving, landscaping and lighting, restored planters and the mall’s architectural “follies,” drainage, bollards, wayfinding signs and refurbished water features. Construction would be limited to no more than two blocks at a time, the memo says.

The company’s bid was $16,541,118.83. The city also picked three add-ons: a water feature on the 500 block ($2,549,962.91), a new planter on the 800 block ($235,000) and more trees on the promenade ($175,000). With a 10% contingency, the contract totals $21,451,189.91, about $1.35 million under the $22.8 million estimate.

The memo notes a clerical error on the company’s bid form, which listed $6,466,093.83 instead of $16,466,093.83 as the base bid. Procurement staff accepted the bid because the company’s schedule of values and grand total showed the correct figure.

41st Street: $15.8 million

Florida Construction & Engineering Inc. would rebuild 41st Street from Alton Road to Pine Tree Drive, including parts of side streets: native shade trees, ADA-compliant sidewalks, colored paving, resurfacing, drainage, lighting and irrigation. The city got two bids. The winning bid of $14,996,706.50, minus a $600,000 option the city dropped, plus contingency, comes to $15,836,377.15.

Normandy Isle: $1.1 million

V Engineering Corp., a seven-employee firm that built the Rue Vendôme Plaza work, was the low bidder of six for traffic calming on Normandy Isle: traffic circles, narrowed road segments and intersections, speed-control devices, signs and markings, designed with Kimley-Horn based on community feedback and technical analysis. The bid was $988,902, or $1,087,792.20 with contingency. The project is No. 42 in the 2018 general obligation bond program, the memo says.

The memo gives no construction start dates. The commission meets at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at City Hall, 1700 Convention Center Drive.