When the City of Fishers opened bids for the interchange at 141st Street and State Road 37 during May of this year, city engineers say the city “did not get a favorable bid” at that time.

The city’s Assistant Director of Engineering, Hatem Mekky, told the Board of Public Works and Safety Tuesday morning that his department sat down with consultants looking into “a lot of different iterations and value engineering efforts to reduce the costs on that interchange.”

Mekky was  explaining a request before the board for an additional American Structurepoint fee of just under $108,000 to continue working on reducing the cost of the 141st Street roundabout over State Road 37.

Mekky projects this endeavor will save at least $2 million on the project, possibly as much as $7 million once all is said and done.  The city expects to go out for bids once again in the spring of 2023.

The board approved the fee for American Structurepoint.

The city previously announced that 141st Street at State Road 37, now a traffic signal, will be switched to a right-in right-out configuration on 141st Street effective in early January.  That will allow traffic on State Road 37 to move freely at that location.  The city describes this as an “interim” move until bids are received more in line with the budget.