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Contractors and Cost

Primary Contractors

Main Piers
Pacific Bridge Company
Anchorages and Approach Piers
Barrett & Hilp
Structural Steel of Suspension Span
Bethlehem Steel Company
Cables of the Suspension Span
John A. Roebling's Sons Company
Structural Steel of Approaches
J.H. Pomeroy & Company, and
Raymond Concrete Pile Company
Presidio Approach Road
Eaton & Smith
Pavement for Suspension Spans
and Approaches
Pacific Bridge Company, and
Barrett & Hilp
Electrical Work
Alta Electric & Mechanical Company

Cost

Construction Bids were received on October 14, 1932 for the following items:

  1. Contract I-A: Steel Superstructure to McClintic-Marshall Corporation in the amount of $10,494,000.
  2. Contract I-B: Steel Cables, Suspenders & Accessories to John A. Roebling's Sons Company in the amount of $5,855,000
  3. Contract II: San Francisco Tower Pier and Fender, Marin Tower Pier to Pacific Bridge Company in the amount of $2,935,000.
  4. Contract III: Anchorages and Piers of Approach Spans to Barrett & Hilp for $1,859,855.
  5. Contract IV: Steel Superstructure for San Francisco and Marin Approaches to J.H. Pomeroy & Company, Inc. and Raymond Concrete Pile Co. in the amount of $934,800.
  6. Contract V: Presidio Approach Road to Eaton & Smith in the amount of $996,000.
  7. Contract VI: Sausalito Approach Road in the amount of $59,780.
  8. Contract VII: Paving of Main Spans to Barrett & Hilp and Pacific Bridge Company in the amount of $555,000.
  9. Contract VIII: Electrical Work to Alta Electric& Mechanical Company, Inc. in the amount of $154,470.

The nine contracts totaled $23,843,905. In November 1932, contracts were awarded for contracts I-B, II, III, IV, V, and VIII. Contract VI, the Sausalito Lateral, was not awarded and was later built as a WPA project.

The authorized bond issue was for $35 million and the total construction cost came in at $35 million which included: $27,125,000 for the construction of the structure, along with $2,050,000 for Engineering and Inspection, $423,000 for Administrative and Preliminary Expenses, $4,068,000 for Financing, and $1,334,000 in surplus. The $27 million for final construction of the span is higher than the $23 million for the initial construction bids as other items were included in the final cost such as the toll plaza ($450,000), toll collection equipment ($72,000), tower elevators ($60,000), miscellaneous equipment ($45,000), and Military replacements and improvements ($575,000).