One of three teams vying to be the public-private partnership contractor to build RTD’s commuter train to Denver International Airport and other projects has bowed out of the bidding.
Mile High Transit, which includes rail car builder Bombardier and Colorado firms Flatiron Construction Corp. and CH2M Hill, did not believe that it could submit a competitive proposal within the required timetable, said Brian Middleton, RTD’s chief on the public-private partnership work.
By June, the Regional Transportation District expects to select a winning team that will finance, design, build, operate and maintain a $2.3 billion portion of the FasTracks project, including the 23-mile train between Union Station and the airport, the Gold Line commuter train to Arvada/Wheat Ridge and the portion of the Northwest commuter rail line from Denver to Westminster.
