In August, bids for the second of Sound Transit's University light rail Link (U-Link) tunneling contracts, which includes 3,800ft (1,158m) of twin tunnel between Capitol Hill and the Downtown Transit Tunnel, in Seattle, again came in lower than the engineers estimate.rnThe lowest bid for the U230 contract was submitted by JCM U-Link JV - comprising Jay Dee, Frank Collucio Construction and Michaels Corp - and came in at $153.5 million, some %12 below the original estimate of $174.3 million. The next lowest bid, by Kenny/Shea JV, was very close at $154.1 million.rnThis follows the award of the first U Link tunneling contract, U220, which includes 11,400ft (3.5km) of twin tunnels from Capitol Hill to the University of Washington, in June to Traylor/ Frontier-Kemper JV with a low bid of $309.2 million, 22% below the Engineer's $395.35 million estimate.rnThe $1.9 billion, 3.15-mile all-underground University Link line is due to open in 2016.
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