Maryland transportation officials have again rejected a bid protest from a losing proposer on a contract to design billions of dollars worth of toll lanes for Interstate 270 and part of the Capital Beltway.
The decision by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) is expected to be appealed again in Montgomery County Circuit Court, where the losing team previously appealed the contract award. MDOT issued its latest decision April 29 but released a redacted version Saturday in response to a public records request by The Washington Post. The redacted information included a “trade secret and confidential commercial information,” MDOT said.
MDOT had to reconsider the protest after a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled in February that the agency had wrongly dismissed three of the four allegations for being filed too late. The judge required MDOT to reconsider the claims on their merits, including whether the winning bid had assumed unrealistically low construction costs that could result in massive building delays and cost overruns.
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