RICHMOND — The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) continues to improve its delivery of on-time and on-budget projects, according to its first quarter fiscal year 2007 report issued this week. VDOT completed 93 percent of its construction projects within budget and 91 percent on schedule. Likewise, VDOT completed 96 percent of maintenance projects within budget.

VDOT was due to complete 55 construction contracts by the end of the first quarter, which ended Sept. 30. Of those 50 (91 percent) were completed on schedule. This exceeds a goal of 70 percent for this year, and tops the 86 percent score for the first quarter of fiscal year 2006. VDOT also ended this quarter with 93 percent of construction projects completed within budget (compared with 85 percent for the same period last year).

VDOT improved its on-budget performance on maintenance projects to 96 percent compared with 84 percent last year. The department delivered 68 percent of maintenance projects on time in the first quarter of this fiscal year compared to 79 percent at this time last year.

“To complete more than 90 percent of our construction projects on time and on budget and to finish 96 percent of our maintenance projects within budget is truly remarkable, especially when you compare where we are now to where we were just three or four years ago,” said David S. Ekern, VDOT commissioner.

“This quarter’s decline in the number of on-time maintenance projects will prompt us to focus more attention on improving the timely delivery of our maintenance program,” Ekern said. “Although this first quarter’s result is lower than we had hoped, we are still confident that we can achieve the fiscal year goal of delivering 75 percent of our maintenance projects on time. We are committed to continuous improvement and efficiencies in order to become the premier state transportation agency of the 21st century.”

Report Card Results:

Deadlines:

Construction contracts completed on time
Through the first quarter of FY 2007 – 91 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2006 – 86 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2005 – 69 percent

Maintenance contracts completed on time
Through the first quarter of FY 2007 – 68 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2006 – 79 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2005 – 74 percent

Budgets:

Construction contracts completed within budget
Through the first quarter of FY 2007 – 93 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2006 – 85 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2005 – 88 percent

Maintenance contracts completed within budget
Through the first quarter of FY 2007 – 96 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2006 – 85 percent
Through the first quarter of FY 2005 – 89 percent

The full report is available online here.

In a major effort to conduct business in the public eye, VDOT began releasing quarterly reports and launched its Dashboard in 2003. The Dashboard is an online system that provides the latest status on construction projects. It was expanded in 2005 to include the daily status of construction, engineering, maintenance and operations, safety, finance and environmental compliance.

For more information about all of VDOT’s projects and programs, or to view the VDOT Dashboard, visit VirginiaDOT.org.

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