Montana contractor gets $10.8M for Highway 387 road work in Natrona County

CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Transportation Commission awarded a more than $10 million bid from Montana-based Riverside Contracting Inc. for road work on Highway 387 in Johnson and Natrona counties.

The work includes asphalt paving, fencing, chip sealing, traffic control and milling on 12.8 miles of Highway 387 between Edgerton and Wright. The work is contracted to be completed in April 2026.

The award came Thursday, Oct. 17, during the commission’s regular business meeting. It’s part of $59.88 million awarded in contracts this month, according to a news release.

JTL Group Inc., doing business as Knife River, based out of Cheyenne, was awarded a $5.82 million bid for a project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, traffic control, chip seal, sidewalk and curb and gutter work on about 8.1 miles of U.S. Highway 26 between Guernsey and Fort Laramie in Goshen County. The contract completion date is Aug. 31, 2025.

Knife River was also awarded a $1.63 million bid for a project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, stormwater drainage, traffic control, clearing/grubbing work, sidewalk and curb and gutter work on 0.4 miles of Warren Avenue in Cheyenne. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2025.

The commission awarded a $33.92 million bid to Sundance-based Croell Inc. for a reconstruction and realignment project involving asphalt paving, aggregate surfacing, grading, structure, traffic control, stormwater drainage and milling work on 8 miles of Interstate 90 between the Montana state line and Ranchester in Sheridan County. The contracted completion date is Nov. 30, 2026.

South Dakota-based Highway Improvement Inc. was awarded a $671,250 bid for a crack seal project involving crack sealing, traffic control and asphalt paving work at various locations within Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties. The contracted completion date is May 30, 2025.

Wilson Bros. Construction Inc., based out of Cowley, was awarded a $630,512 bid for an irrigation piping project involving irrigation system work, aggregate surfacing, asphalt paving, fencing, grading and traffic control work on U.S. 16 between Worland and Buffalo in Washakie County. The contracted completion date is March 31, 2026.

All of those projects are funded primarily with federal dollars, a commission news release said.

Funded primarily by state dollars, the commission awarded a $3.54 million bid to Cheyenne-based Reiman Corp. for a bridge replacement project involving structure work, traffic control, asphalt paving, grading, aggregate surfacing, seeding and erosion control work at various locations within Natrona and Platte counties. The contracted completion date is Nov. 30, 2025.

DeBernardi Construction Co. Inc., based out of Rock Springs, was awarded a $2.83 million bid for a bridge rehabilitation project involving structure work, traffic control, asphalt paving, guardrail and concrete paving work at various locations within Sweetwater and Uinta Counties. The contract completion date is Oct. 31, 2025, and this project is also funded primarily with state dollars.

Almost all WYDOT projects are awarded to the lowest bid, the commission said. 

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