NTTA board approves multiple construction, service and vendor contracts; updates debt and investment policies

The North Texas Tollway Authority board on March 12, 2025, voted to approve a series of construction, maintenance, vendor-selection and service contracts and to update the agency's debt and investment policies.

The actions approved include requests to advertise construction projects, selection of vendors for design and construction support, final contract awards for maintenance and pavement rehabilitation, and renewals of professional services contracts. Board members voted on each item separately; most motions carried unanimously.

Why it matters: The contracts span routine system upkeep and multi-million-dollar capital programs that NTTA funds from its capital improvement and reserve maintenance accounts. The vendor awards and contract approvals will move work into procurement, negotiation and construction phases and preserve cash and debt targets the board reviews annually.

What the board approved and key details

- Request to advertise: construction services for Dallas North Tollway LBJ interchange pavement and drainage rehabilitation. Budget estimate: $1,640,000; contract term: eight months; funding: Reserve Maintenance Fund. Motion to advertise carried (8-0).

- Construction contract approval: replacement of trailblazer signs on President George Bush Turnpike (PGBT), Beltline to I-78/Garland. Budget estimate: $600,000. Motion carried unanimously.

- Vendor selection (recommended vendors only): construction management and materials testing services for Chisholm Trail Parkway main lanes (FM 1187 to US 67). Recommended construction management vendors: 1836 Engineering and Roba Kisner; recommended material-testing vendors: Beyond Engineering and Testing and Textura Engineering. Estimated budgets: South job $7,640,000; North job $8,160,000 for construction management; testing estimates $2.7M and $2.97M. Board approved recommended vendors (9-0); final contracts will return in May for approval.

- Collection agency contracts (final approval): primary and secondary collection agency services (contingency fee structure). Primary recommended vendors: Harris & Harris, Transworld Systems and Penn Credit Corporation. Secondary recommended: Credit Control Services, F.H. Conn & Associates and Southwest Credit Systems. Work authorization not to exceed $12,500,000 for the remainder of the year; staff estimates ~$75M in collections from these efforts this portion of the year and ~$150M total across collection vendors for the year. Motion carried (9-0).

- Customer service support and business continuity (final contract approval): recommended vendors Harrison, Harris and I Corps USA; estimated remainder-of-year expense not to exceed $8,400,000; funded from Operations & Maintenance Fund, Enterprise Fund and Capital Improvement Fund. Motion carried (9-0).

- Asset management software final contract approval: recommended vendor Woolpert, Inc., for an asset lifecycle management solution (license, implementation, GIS integration) with a contract amount of approximately $6,600,000 over seven years; funding from Reserve Maintenance Fund and Operations & Maintenance Fund. Motion carried (9-0).

- Construction contract approvals: Dallas North Tollway at I-35 queue-warning system (low bid ~ $1,200,000; two-year contract; Capital Improvement Fund); PGBT shoulder rehabilitation (Midway to I-78; low bidder Regal Inc., ~ $4,800,000; seven-month term; Reserve Maintenance Fund); Sam Rayburn Tollway pavement rehabilitation (26 locations; low bidder Palmer Hall Construction, ~ $400,000; six-month term; Reserve…