Four building firms that collectively constructed the MBTA’s Green Line Extension filed a lawsuit towards their engineering agency, claiming its defective designs led to greater than $35 million in price overruns.
The entity, GLX Constructors, is suing for skilled negligence, breach of contract and contractual indemnity towards STV Incorporated, saying in a Suffolk Superior Court submitting that the engineering agency didn’t reimburse GLX for these surprising prices, as stipulated within the phrases of their settlement.
“GLX Constructors seeks damages in excess of $35 million for losses suffered as a result of STV’s failure to comply with the requisite standard of care and its contractual obligations when performing services in connection with the Green Line Extension project,” the lawsuit states.
The roughly $2.3 billion Green Line Extension mission was accomplished final December, with a brand new department that begins in Medford on the Tufts/College Avenue station and provides 4 stops in Somerville. A smaller department opened in March 2022, including service on the Union Square station in Somerville.
The MBTA absolved itself of paying for these price overruns throughout a 2016–17 bid course of. The T required potential contractors to submit design/construct proposals with a set price “not to exceed the established affordability limit,” the lawsuit states, noting that price was of serious concern to the transit company.
In response to the T’s request for proposals, GLX Constructors, an entity consisting of Fluor Enterprises Inc., The Middlesex Corporation, Herzog Contracting Corp. and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc., entered right into a teaming settlement with STV Incorporated in January 2017, courtroom paperwork state.
Pursuant to that settlement, STV Incorporated was chargeable for getting ready preliminary design drawings that GLX Constructors submitted as a part of its bid proposal, the lawsuit states.
“At all times, STV understood that GLX Constructors was preparing a response to the MBTA’s RFP and that GLX Constructors would rely on and use the ready for estimate drawings to calculate the cost of the GLX project, which would be submitted as part of its price proposal to the MBTA,” the lawsuit states.
It goes on to state, “STV also understood that any post-award changes to the ready for estimate drawings could change the quantities and nature of the materials GLX Constructors had included for its price proposal, which, in turn would increase the costs of constructing the GLX project, and that such increased costs would not be paid by the MBTA.”
GLX Constructors claims in its lawsuit that STV agreed, as a part of the teaming settlement, that it will be “responsible for costs and damages incurred [by GLX Constructors] as a result of errors in such quantities caused by the failure of [STV] to comply with the standards of skill and care” set out in that contract.
The lawsuit cites 10 separate situations the place design drawings had been “replete with errors and omissions,” requiring corrections that resulted in “costly overruns.”
It additionally factors to various further “omissions and errors in release for construction documents,” leading to “costly corrections” and extra prices for GLX Constructors.
The building entity claims STV refused to supply reimbursement for these price overruns, when requested on a number of events.
STV Incorporated didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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