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2/17/2021
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction and Development announced yesterday it's seeking it design-build teams to bring accessibility to a complex of three interconnected stations on 14th Street in Manhattan, New York.
The teams will install elevators and make other improvements to ensure full vertical accessibility in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
“Ensuring every New Yorker has access to our transit system is an absolute necessity,” said MTA Chief Accessibility Officer Quemuel Arroyo in a press release.
These design-build contracts will be awarded to the companies whose proposals based on an evaluation of qualitative factors as well as cost and schedule.
Work at each station will include the design and construction of three to four new elevators; structural and excavation work to accommodate new elevator installations; electrical power upgrades; station communications upgrades; relocation of existing public and transit utilities; replacement, relocation or addition of staircases; reconstruction of platform edges or reconstruction of ADA boarding areas.
The project also requires a separate long-term elevator maintenance contract.