Thursday, December 18, 2008 Archive | Client Login
| Track the Stimulus Project Pipeline | |
| Spending Focus | Proposed Projects |
| Energy | 921 |
| Housing | 433 |
| Public Safety | 932 |
| Schools | 651 |
| Streets/Roadways | 2,376 |
| Transportation | 1,020 |
| Water Infrastructure | 2,510 |
| Community Development | 2,632 |
| Number of economic stimulus projects and proposals currently being tracked by Onvia. | |
The infrastructure stimulus package continues to grow in size, some reporting it to be as large as $1.2 Trillion. With such an enormous level of funding in the offing, state and local governments are anxious to make sure that they receive a share to fund important infrastructure projects. Detailed plans for applying these funds are already being unveiled to legislatures, the local community and the press. The call has been for shovel-ready projects and every state, municipality and educational facility is making their needs known as loudly as possible.
And that is the focus of this week’s advisory as we highlight news of municipalities’ and states’ plans for gaining legislative approval for the many projects they have in the works.
One way you can position yourself to win the state and local projects funded by the stimulus package is to monitor competitive activity in your business area. With the magnitude of the upcoming infrastructure stimulus, there will be a lot more bidders, plan holders, and RFP respondents competing for the project funds. These new competitors may lack your experience and insight, but it is always best to stay ahead of them.
I will continue to encourage you to contact your Onvia account manager to review your account set-up and user profile to make sure you are receiving notice of all opportunities that are right for your business, by example agency calls for qualified vendor registration. I want to hear from you, mike@onvia.com.
Mike Pickett
Onvia President
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Stimulus package has DOT seeing green
The Maine Department of Transportation created a $335 million, 87-project wish list of aviation, bridge, highway and rail projects that Gov. John Baldacci delivered to Obama, Vice President-elect Joseph Biden and top transition team officials at a National Governors Association meeting earlier this month.
Obama’s infrastructure plan might be the largest in history, said Mark Latti, DOT spokesman. Yet no one really knows what the plan will entail, so Maine’s wish list is wide-ranging and flexible. Every project can start “within 90 to 180 days, and they run across the transportation spectrum,” Latti said.
Bangordailynews.com, Nick Sambides, Jr., December 15, 2008
http://www.bangornews.com/detail/95206.html
Snohomish County cities have wish lists for stimulus spending
It's all about putting people to work right away, congressional representatives said. Projects that might receive funding should be ready to go now for whatever form the proposed federal economic stimulus package takes, they say.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who leads the Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, believes that a significant amount of the money will go to transportation projects such as road repair and safety projects. "We think that the focus is on infrastructure projects," said Matt McAlvanah, a spokesman in Murray's senate office. "President-elect Obama has signaled that."
Heraldnet.com, Gale Fiege and Debra Smith, December 14, 2008
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20081214/NEWS01/712149912&news01ad=1
Getting Rail Out Of the Station
U.S. Rep. John Mica, who represents an east-central Florida area from the Orlando suburbs to beyond St. Augustine, fears Tampa and Orlando could be left behind. The Republican leader on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee visited Tampa recently to warn local leaders to get rolling. When you don't have a project, the money goes somewhere else.
Tampa Bay Online, JIM BEAMGUARD, December 14, 2008
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/14/co-getting-rail-out-of-the-station/
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