Transcript Milwaukee Marquette Interchange Powerpoint

AASHTO Subcommittee on Civil Rights
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
September 28, 2007
Supporting a commitment to equal opportunity
on the Marquette Interchange Project
Deputy Secretary Ruben L. Anthony, Jr.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Senator G. Spencer Coggs
Wisconsin State Senate
Setting the stage
 Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and DOT
Secretary Frank
Busalacchi lead the commitment to equal opportunity and
stress its importance on the Marquette Interchange
 Supporting opportunity for DBE
firms and minority
workers is good for the economy:
 Supports
the Milwaukee urban center
 Builds economic capital
 Creates job opportunities and better wages
 Encourages competition
 Unleashes knowledge and skills
Presentation overview

The $810 million Marquette Interchange Project needed to provide
equal opportunities for firms and workers

WisDOT undertook a variety of strategies to provide equal
opportunity to the community and is achieving great success

Research is underway to analyze the importance and effectiveness of
the strategies used and to apply them to future projects

Community leaders have played a strong role to guide and support
equal opportunity on the project
Project background
 The Marquette Interchange,
downtown Milwaukee
 First
opened to traffic in 1968
 By
the 1990’s and early 2000’s, the
original interchange had obsolete
design and couldn’t handle 300,000
vehicles per day
 Concrete
box girders and steel
structures were crumbling
Past effects of freeway construction
 Historically, freeway construction in
Milwaukee harmed urban and ethnic
areas, such as the African-American
“Bronzeville” neighborhood
 African-Americans and minorities
were skeptical about how they would
benefit from reconstruction of the
Marquette Interchange
Project designed to benefit community
 In 2003, Governor Jim Doyle
and Transportation Secretary
Frank Busalacchi announced a
four-year, $810 million plan to
rebuild the interchange
 Community benefits:
 Community sensitive design
 Economic stimulus for workers and
businesses
WisDOT philosophy for opportunity
 WisDOT knew that equal opportunity
would be paramount to this project in
the heart of Milwaukee’s urban
community
 The philosophy to
support DBE
businesses, minority workers and
other aspects of opportunity is
“Make it, take it, respond and deliver”
Make it
 Make opportunities for DBE
firms to
compete on the project
 Stand-alone
contract opportunities to allow
DBE’s to bid as primes
 Mandatory subcontracting to
help DBE firms
build skills and expertise
 High
subcontracting goals – 20% or higher
on most contracts
Take it
 Take the opportunities and market them
aggressively
 Bullseye
marketing matches firms to the skills needed, and
makes the contact
 Networking events
helped encourage DBE-prime contacts,
mentor-protégé options, joint venture agreements
 Pre-bid
meetings helped DBE and prime firms to
understand bidding requirement
 Major
use of media, newsletters and community events to
market contracting opportunities
Respond
 Private sector has stepped up to
 55
respond
newly certified DBE firms in 2004-05
 Primes
and DBEs took advantage of networking opportunities
 Mentor-protégé relationships formed
 Hoffman
Construction / South Star
 Pheifer Brothers / D’Arteaga
 Joint
venture formed
 K Singh
 Making the Grade
 Toki & Associates
Deliver
 All sides have stepped up to
deliver
 Through July
31, DBE firms have earned $117.3 million of contracts out
of $616.4 million total, a 19% share
 Through July
31, DBE firms have earned $93.6 million of expended
dollars out of $521.1 million total, an 18% share.
 Five
DBE firms earned prime contracts
 More
than 70 different DBE contractors and consultants have
participated on the Marquette Interchange Project, with more than 80%
of these firms from southeast Wisconsin
Exceeding requirements & expectations
 Federal government requires a
minority labor goal of 8% and an
“appropriate” DBE goal
 In past
years, Wisconsin’s typical
DBE goals and achievements have
been in the 8% to 12% range
 Marquette Interchange thus far has
achieved 22% minority labor and
18% DBE business participation
A closer look at the numbers
 A research study has been started to objectively examine
the equal opportunity strategies utilized on the Marquette,
particularly the bulls-eye marketing approach
 Lessons learned about DBE
business participation will be
applied to future projects:
 I-94
NS Corridor connecting Milwaukee to Chicago, expected to begin in
2009 and cost more than $1 billion
 Zoo
Interchange in western Milwaukee County, the state’s busiest
interchange with an environmental / engineering study getting underway
DBE consultant roles
 Environmental assessment, study and design phases:
 $60.2 million in total contracts
 $8.1 million in DBE contracts, 13.4% share
 Types of work included soils engineering, roadway design, public
relations, environmental testing
 Construction administration work:
 $34.4 million in total contracts
 $7.4 million in DBE contracts, 21.5% share
 Seven DBE firms earned prime contracts for construction administration
 Construction administration services include administrative support,
document control, engineering, construction management
DBE subcontractor roles
 Construction phase:
 $521.2 million in total contracts
 $101.8 million in DBE contracts, 19.5% share
 Many DBE firms earned work on multiple contracts
 Major categories of subcontracting work
 Asphalt paving – 2 firms
 Concrete construction & suppliers – 6 firms
 Electrical construction & suppliers – 3 firms
 Painting & staining – 3 firms
 Traffic control – 2 firms
 Trucking – 28 firms
 Other structural installation (girders, walls, sewer) – 12 firms
DBE prime contractor roles
 Five DBE
contractors earned prime bids
 Clybourn landscaping …
 Security
… $160,000 contract
 Decorative
 Advance
 North
$74,000 contract
fencing … $1.7 million contract
signing … $150,000 contract
/ west leg landscaping … $308,000 contract
Most DBE firms are from SE Wisconsin
 Total of
74 DBE contractors or consultants working on any
phase of the Marquette Interchange Project
 41
based in Milwaukee County … 55%
 21 based elsewhere in SE Wisconsin … 28%
 8 based elsewhere in Wisconsin … 11%
 4 based out of state … 5%
 Bottom line DBE firm counts
 15 consultants
 28 trucking firms
 31 contracting / construction firms
Support from community leaders
 Community leaders have stepped up to
identify the needs, communicate with
the community and provide oversight to
goals and delivery
 State
Senator Spencer Coggs leads a
business advisory committee that
focuses on DBE business goals and
achievements, capacity development
and overall business support
AASHTO Subcommittee on Civil Rights
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
September 28, 2007
Supporting a commitment to equal opportunity
on the Marquette Interchange Project
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