The New Jersey Department of Transportation has a bid opening, called a letting, scheduled for December 10 on Contract 4 of its Route 295/42/I-76 Direct Connection project -- grading, paving, and structures work stretching from west of Creek Road to north of Black Horse Pike.
This is solicitation DP26120, and it's a big one geographically: the work touches the Borough of Bellmawr, Borough of Mount Ephraim, Borough of Barrington, Borough of Haddon Heights, Borough of Runnemede, City of Gloucester, Township of Deptford, Borough of Westville, and City of Woodbury, spread across Camden County and Gloucester County, New Jersey. No trade category, dollar estimate, or plan holder count is listed on the posting.
Worth flagging up front: this is a New Jersey job, not a New York City one. Any contractor chasing it needs to confirm New Jersey Department of Transportation prequalification and bonding before doing serious estimating work -- NJDOT runs its own contractor qualification process separate from anything in New York, and those requirements need to be checked directly against the solicitation.
This contract is one piece of a much bigger program. The Direct Connection project was split into four separate construction contracts plus a fifth contract for Advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems. Construction on the whole interchange started back in March 2013 and is planned to run until 2027, and the overall build includes 10 new bridges, one bridge widening, one bridge rehabilitation, and two temporary bridge structures. Contract 4 specifically covers rebuilding I-76 and Route 42 across the entire project limits, finishing new Ramps C and F, and completing the new I-295 Northbound direct connection -- meaning this piece is near the finish line of a long-running program, not the start of one.
Any contractor already set up to work in New Jersey, and prequalified with NJDOT, should treat this as a near-final piece of a decade-plus program worth tracking closely. Confirm your prequalification status and bonding capacity, then be ready for the December 10 letting.
On the record: Route 295 / 42 / I-76, Direct Connection, Contract 4, Contract No. 026113030, Grading, Paving and Structures, From West of Creek Road to North of Black Horse Pike, Borough of Bellmawr, Borough of Mount Ephraim, Borough of Barrington, Borough of Haddon Heights, Borough of Runnemede, City of Gloucester, County of Camden, Township of Deptford, Borough of Westville, City of Woodbury, County of Gloucester, issued by New Jersey Department of Transportation. Solicitation DP26120. Bids are due December 10, 2026 (Letting (bid opening) scheduled for 12/10/26.). The listing on NJDOT: https://dot.nj.gov/transportation/contribute/business/procurement/ConstrServ/documents/NOTICETOCONTRACTORS_DP26120.pdf. Full record on The RFI Wire's board: https://therfiwire.com/rfi/RFI-005064.html.