{"id":380,"date":"2016-01-06T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/01\/06\/high-speed-rail-compare-contrast-the-bids-to-build\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T21:18:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-compare-contrast-the-bids-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-compare-contrast-the-bids-to-build\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail. Compare &#038; Contrast. The Bids to Build."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is the other big state thats working on high speed rail. The Californians are\u00a0further along than other high speed rail projects.<\/p>\n<p>California\u00a0has aquired land and has awarded bids for building.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s take a look, so we can see what&#8217;s on the horizon. Knowledge is power.<\/p>\n<p>The California bids for a 22 mile stretch of high speed rail in the San Joaquin Valley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>apparent best value bid<\/strong>:\u00a0California Rail Builders.\u00a0$347.5 million.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>competitors came in at $377 million; $462 million &amp; $581 million.<\/li>\n<li>The 1st construction contract awarded was in 2013 to build 29 miles at $1 billion<\/li>\n<li>The 2nd was awarded in 2015 at\u00a0$1.3 billion for\u00a065 miles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/high-speed-rail\/article53209525.html\">Fresno Bee |\u00a0Spanish team poised to win new high-speed rail contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is the other big state thats working on high speed rail. The Californians are\u00a0further along than other high speed rail projects.<\/p>\n<p>California\u00a0has aquired land and has awarded bids for building.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s take a look, so we can see what&#8217;s on the horizon. Knowledge is power.<\/p>\n<p>The California bids for a 22 mile stretch of high speed rail in the San Joaquin Valley:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>apparent best value bid<\/strong>:\u00a0California Rail Builders.\u00a0$347.5 million.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>competitors came in at $377 million; $462&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contracting","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}