The Miami-Dade County in Florida has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the development of the Beach Corridor Trunk Line rapid transit system project.

The concession involves the design,  permit, build, finance, manage, operate, and maintain a Rapid Mass Transit Solution on the Beach Corridor Trunk Line of the County’s SMART Plan that is intended to connect the Downtown Miami/Overtown (Mainland) area to South Beach. The business opportunity details can be found here. 

The project contemplates the delivery of a Downtown Miami/Overtwon Multimodal Hub/Transit Station, a City of Miami Beach Multimodal Hub/Transit Station, and a minimum of one maintenance facility to service transit vehicles to be delivered by the Concessionaire. The project also requires the private partner to establish an alignment that will accommodate a future station on Watson Island.

Rapid transit technology options include monorail, automated people mover (an elevated rapid transit system), or a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, which would require a dedicated lane of traffic on the McArthur Causeway. The project is open to these or other technologies that may meet the project's purpose.

The deadline for the tender is on March 17, 2019. 

In connection to the project, the County has also launched Requests for Participation in the Alternative Technical Concept process. The deadline is set for October 18, 2019.  The business opportunity details can be found here.