Dive Brief:

• The Minnesota Department of Transportation awarded Ames Construction a $98 million contract to add a toll lane and to repair six bridges on Interstate 35 East, the part of the divided interstate that serves St. Paul.
• C.S. McCrossan Construction, along with joint bidders Lunda Contracting and Schafer Contracting, argues that MnDOT let Ames make changes that the agency should have disallowed.
• Ames' bid was $11 million over the lowest submission, but won on scoring for technical matters.

Dive Insight:

Whether the companies get anywhere in the Minnesota Court of Appeals may depend on how much leeway officials should give bidders who do not follow project specs exactly. The state reviewed its process and agreed there some things were done incorrectly, but said the problem was not bad enough to cancel the award.