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METRO Blue Line Extension civil systems
METRO Blue Line Extension civil and systems construction - a request for qualifications and best-value request for proposals forecast for the second quarter of 2026, the construction of the 13.4-mile extension
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- Buyer
- Metropolitan Council
- Where
- Minnesota · Brooklyn Park
- Segments
- Civil works, Track, Signalling, Electrification
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Signalling & train control
- Status
- Planned — Forecast by the Council for a Request for Qualifications and best-value Request for Proposals in the second quarter of 2026 out of its Blue Line Extension unit.
- Value band
- value not published - the Council's own forecast schedule gives the Estimated Contract Value as 'TBD'
- Currency
- USD
- Key dates (month)
- Forecast published February 2026 · Expected advertisement 2026 · Construction anticipated 2027 · Solicitation list read September 2026
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Forecast by the Council for a Request for Qualifications and best-value Request for Proposals in the second quarter of 2026 out of its Blue Line Extension unit. It had not appeared on the Council's Contracting Opportunities list when that list was read in September 2026, and construction is anticipated to begin in 2027.
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- Key dates (4)
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4 sources · all primary
- ● Metropolitan Council · Forecasted Contracting Opportunities, dated 2/6/2026 (PDF, 15 pages, 431,322 bytes) — the Council's own forward schedule giving, for each anticipated procurement, the project title, contract type, description, an Estimated Contract Value class, the expected IFB or RFP advertisement quarter, the procurement method and the division unit The Council's Forecasted-Contracts.aspx address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved address of the PDF itself, read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 431,322 bytes, 15 pages, dated 2/6/2026). (published 2026-02-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · METRO Blue Line Extension — project home page: 'With the recent completion of the Federal Risk Assessment process and the project nearing the 90% design milestone, project staff in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration have set an official project budget of $3.58 billion'; 90 per cent design by summer 2026 and 100 per cent by autumn 2026; construction anticipated to begin in 2027 The /Current-Projects/ address redirects here (HTTP 302); this is the resolved page read on 14 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 61,879 bytes). (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (2 pages, 113,180 bytes), 'Last updated: 09/10/2026': METRO Blue Line Extension (Bottineau LRT), sponsor Met Council, Minneapolis MN, phase Eng, length 13.4, 13 stations, project cost $3,580.0 million, CIG funding request $752.7 million, CIG share 21 per cent, NEPA completion 8/11/2025, PD entry 08/22/2014, ENG entry 01/19/2017, non-CIG matching funds In Progress, estimated grant date Early 2027; the footnote records that the 8/11/2025 date is the Amended Record of Decision and that the original ROD date was 09/19/2016 Read with the full browser header set; a plain curl is answered HTTP 403. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
- ● Metropolitan Council · Contracting Opportunities — the Council's own publicly advertised solicitation list, server-rendered HTML; the page states 'Contracting opportunities last updated on 9/11/2026'. Read 14 September 2026: fourteen RFP/IFB records, one MCUB Select record and one small-contract record. Byte counts in this register are gzip transfer sizes; the raw HTML of this page is 65,804 to 65,820 bytes. (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
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| Tender | Buyer | Status | Value band | Next key date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lindberg Tunnel low-vibration track replacement | Met Council | Bids closed | estimated contract value 'Over $10M' as the Council's own Forecasted Contracting Opportunities schedule prints it - an open-ended class with a published floor and no ceiling, not a point estimate | Bids closed September 2026 · award expected |
| METRO Green Line Extension systems construction | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m | Awarded September 2019 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| METRO Green Line Extension civil construction | Met Council | In execution | over $1bn | |
| METRO Blue Line Extension engineering | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m | |
| Twenty-seven Type 3 vehicles Green Line Extension | Met Council | In execution | $100–500m |
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