Vista Del Mar near Fontainbleau Street Emergency Slope Repair

This emergency slope repair project on Vista Del Mar near Fontainbleau Street in Los Angeles involves constructing a pipe and board structure to stabilize an erosion gully and restore lateral support to the roadway, with seven walls each 5 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet long. The work includes removing and replacing a 5-foot wide by 70-foot long section of damaged pavement and curb with new AC paving and Type C integral curb and gutter, installing a 4-foot tall chain link fence along the top of the structure, and filling a void behind the existing pipe and board system with slurry. Work must be performed on or from Vista Del Mar, with strict adherence to existing traffic conditions—the #2 southbound lane is already closed and no additional closures are permitted. All traffic control must comply with the WATCH manual. The project is funded by the SB1 Road and Maintenance Rehabilitation Fund and has been determined compliant with CEQA. Only five pre-qualified contractors—Calex Engineering, Clarke Contracting, Jilk Heavy Construction, Mike Prlich & Sons, and Mladen Buntich Construction—are eligible to submit bids, and all must obtain the full bid package exclusively through the RAMP portal. Bids must be submitted via email by the deadline of May 7, 2026, at noon Pacific Time, with no bid bond required but mandatory performance and payment bonds equal to 100% of the bid amount. The selected contractor must mobilize within one business day of award, and while the City’s engineering estimate is $391,450, no line-item pricing or formal evaluation criteria are disclosed. The City Engineer’s Geotechnical Engineering Division is managing the project, with Elaine Lei as the point of contact, and no formal FAR clauses or standard inspection protocols are applied—instead the project follows municipal engineering standards and project-specific requirements outlined in the RAMP bid documents.