Transtec just earned the #1 rank among fifteen proposers in the most recent TxDOT pavement design and engineering RFP. This is TxDOT’s third pavement engineering RFP in history, and Transtec has received the top ranking in all three RFPs.
In recent years, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has increasingly sought pavement engineering support from consultants. The Transtec Group is proud to not only be one of those consultants, but to have won all three requests for proposals (RFPs) for pavement engineering services that TxDOT has produced.
We build a real partnership with our clients, to understand their needs and to help them meet their goals.
TxDOT’s first RFP for pavement engineering services was for the Austin District and was posted in 2018—and Transtec won that RFP, coming in with the highest proposal score. That win led to the opportunity for Transtec to deliver innovative pavement designs for Austin District projects including Oak Hill Parkway, 183 North, I-35 Capital Express through Austin, and several others. For a statewide RFP in 2019, where the RFP was awarded to the five best proposers, Transtec again ranked in first place. On March 10, 2023, Transtec once again came in as the top ranked prime proposer for a statewide pavement design RFP. Fourteen other companies also submitted proposals for the 2023 RFP, and Transtec is a subcontractor on the second, third, and fourth place ranked proposals.
Transtec Services Performed for TxDOT
Transtec has established a successful working relationship with the TxDOT Maintenance Division, an organization that oversees the preservation and restoration of more than 197,000 miles of Texas highways and rights of way. Transtec has developed a full understanding of TxDOT operating procedures and design objectives, and is able to help optimize for low maintenance and lowest total cost while still meeting all TxDOT performance goals.
Transtec’s experience with the department includes performing pavement investigations for multiple TxDOT districts, helping them identify cost-effective rehabilitation strategies. Transtec has also been the pavement lead for plans, specifications, and estimate (PS&E) projects in several districts, responsible for final design phase engineering documents.
Transtec maintains TxDOT pre-certification in the pavement design and pavement evaluation categories. Because firms must be pre-certified prior to being awarded a professional services contract with TxDOT, this status ensures our firm’s eligibility to be granted TxDOT contracts. Transtec is also a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) and historically underutilized business (HUB). This means working with Transtec helps Texas agencies fulfill state requirements for HUB and DBE hiring—not to mention the fact that HUB businesses are state-verified, substantiating their qualification to perform services.
The Transtec Advantage
The Transtec Group is a pavement engineering specialty firm with uncommonly deep knowledge of pavement design, evaluation, testing and overall optimization. Transtec engineers all structural layers from subgrade to surface, and has expertise in local materials selection, constructability and design inputs. The result is, improved pavement performance as well as a reduction in initial cost, life cycle cost and maintenance. Over the past 20 years, Transtec has been the pavement engineer for more than 1,000 pavement projects worldwide worth over $65 billion and has improved performance and reduced cost by over $600 million to deliver the best possible pavements for TxDOT and the planet.
Transtec’s performance scores from TxDOT over the years have noted, among other kudos, that that our “quality and efficiency are very high;” we are “very responsive;” and we “find ways to optimize performance and control costs.”
“The team at Transtec is not afraid to innovate,” said Mauricio Ruiz, Director of Engineering, The Transtec Group, “because we have a thorough understanding of pavement materials, behavior, construction and performance. We also excel because we build a real partnership with our clients, striving to understand their needs and to help them meet their goals.”
