Key Bridge work to be awarded in separate contracts, in effort to keep costs down

State officials plan to split remaining work on the Francis Scott Key Bridge into four separate contracts, hoping to boost competition and lower costs, after parting ways with the current contractor over an "unacceptably high" bid on the multibillion-dollar bridge.

By: Maryland Matters Staff

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: May 21, 2026

Words: 626

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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State officials announced this week that they plan to split the work on the Francis Scott Key Bridge into four separate contracts going forward, in hopes of increasing competition and lowering costs.

Tuesday’s announcement came three weeks after the Maryland Transportation Authority announced it was parting ways with the current contractor, Kiewit Infrastructure, because of an “unacceptably high” bid on the second phase of what is now, officially at least, projected to be about a …

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