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UDOTs Pavement Marking Warranty Contract

• UDOT Maintenance Planning Division
• Rich Clarke, PE
• Engineer for Maintenance

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Background

• 17 miles of I-15 reconstruction completed in time
  for the 2002 Olympics
• 600 N to 10600 S
• Design/Build contract with Pavement marking
  warranty attached
• Contractor-Epoplex
• Time-8 years (4 years initially with 4 year
  extension)
• Material-Epoxy was a result of the contractors
  proposal to change from tape
• Measures-Retroreflectivity Presence

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Background (cont.)

• Data collection subcontractor
• 1st 4 years-Precision Scan
• 2nd 4 years-BC Traffic
• Expiration-summer 2010
• Evaluation
• Epoplex did a good job
• Easy to work with
• Conscientious
• Extra mile
• Started looking at another contract in early
  spring 2010
• Suppliers approached us with interest in the
  contract

I-15
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Parameters

• Recessing optional
• Performance criteria
• Striping
• 200 mcd min. (white)
• 125 mcd min. (yellow)
• 90 presence/mile
• Messages
• 95 presence/message
• Required to obligate mobile retroreflectometer
  data collection services
• Data collection frequency
• Just after installation
• Annually in the spring for life of contract

• 5,000,000 budget
• 5 year warranty
• Established suppliers to act as prime contractor
• Supplier chooses durable marking
• Not solvent or waterborne
• One application to last 5 years
• Match existing marking geometry and contrasting
• Remove all existing striping and messages

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Parameters (cont.)

• Additive bidding for the 3 prioritized segments
• Price Time bidding w/ incentives/disincentives
• Lump sum payments yearly when all markings meet
  performance criteria

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Funding Process

• Initially planned on state maintenance funds
• Put RFI out for comment worked on RFP (Mar.
  2011)
• Federal IM money became available
• Changed the process which added 2 months
• Required 2 phases
• RFQ-short listed qualified suppliers
• Bid package

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Process

• Developed list of routes
• High AADT
• Too far away
• Prioritized list
• Developed quantities and estimate
• Had to make product assumptions
• Couldnt use solvent or waterborne
• Used average of bid prices found for modified
  urethane, polyurea and epoxy
• Initially had 20 segments to choose from
• Refined route list as we refined the estimate
• Result was these segments

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Segment 1

• Highest priority
• 114th S. north gore to 600 N. north gore
• 17 miles-scope of previous warranty contract
• Highest AADT (179,726)
• 10 interchanges
• 7 SPUIs
• 3 freeway to freeway
• 1 collector system
• 2,144,986 ft. of striping
• 255 messages

Seg. 1 114th S. to 600 N.
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Segment 1 (cont.)

• I-15/I-80/2100 S. freeway
• Aka (Spaghetti Bowl)
• Our messiest interchange
• AADT spikes at 248,925

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Segment 2

• 2nd highest priority
• 114th S. gore to Salt Lake/Utah County line
• 6.1 miles
• 3 interchanges
• 2 SPUI
• 1 Diamond
• 298,000 ft. of striping
• 160 messages

Seg. 2 114th S. to Salt Lake/Utah County line
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Segment 3
Seg. 3 I-215 Legacy Highway connection to Beck
St. interchange

• 3rd highest priority
• I-215-Salt Lake /Davis county line to Beck Street
  interchange
• 1.6 miles
• 1 diamond interchange
• 1 freeway/highway connection
• 40,215 ft. of striping
• 8 messages

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Status

• Interested to see what products and prices are
  bid
• We think
• Epoxy, or
• Modified urethane ,or
• Polyurea, or
• A combination
• Unique
• Had previous warranty contracts via change order
  but this is the first time to solicit bids for
  only a pavement marking warranty scope
• First time federal IM funds used for pavement
  markings

• Bid open in August
• Too late to start work
• Will start next spring
• Good
• Will allow better planning and scheduling
• Will extend the 5 year warranty to 2017
• Condition of existing epoxy on I-15 is pretty
  good
• Requires some minimal touch-up with waterborne to
  get through the winter

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Thanks!

• Rich Clarke
• richardclarke_at_utah.gov
• 801-965-4120
• Ken Berg
• kenberg_at_utah.gov
• 801-965-4321

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