WINNIPEG – Manitoba’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI) will advertise another $150 million in tenders in the coming months, including $90 million of work that it will expend in 2024.
The tenders were announced at a July 15 Manitoba Heavy Construction Association (MHCA) meeting with MTI Minister Leisa Naylor and deputy minister Ryan Klos, an MHCA release said.
Topics discussed included the tender ad schedule, the highways infrastructure program, delays to permits and locates, an annual and five-year budget and the reinstatement of the policy to carry over to succeeding budget years any unexpended funds from annual highways budgets.
In February 2024, the MTI informed the industry at a program review meeting that 80 per cent of the 2024 program had already been tendered and awarded, the release said.
Additional work to be tendered is how the department manages the full annual program budget, accounting for the fact each year there are delays to some tender/awards, and to starts for construction projects. The total expenditure, however, will not exceed 2024’s $500-million highways infrastructure program budget, the release said.
“The association also stressed to the minister and deputy minister the necessity of publicly publishing a report on an analysis of the transportation network’s condition and needs. That information is critical to laying out a long-term financing and program plan to bring Manitoba’s roads and water control structures up to good condition within a manageable time frame,” MHCA president and CEO Chris Lorenc said in a statement.