Introduction

In 2014, the Indiana Finance Authority (IFA) accepted a lowball bid from a large Spanish contractor with no roadbuilding experience in Indiana to build a technically simple segment of I-69 near Bloomington under a 35-year DBFOM contract. Everything that could go wrong since then apparently did, and Indiana DOT took over the project in late July.

“They [Isolux Corsan] went in and bought the job and the industry will pay for it,” says Sia Kusha, of Aecom. “It’s a disaster.”