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Traffic HS-TRF-PCMS-EA

Portable changeable message sign

Unit EA · Lettings Feb 11, 2011 – Aug 27, 2026 · 22 agencies · 4 agency descriptions pooled

Pooled median

$5,000/ EA

p25–p75
$2,816 – $7,000
Prices in the median
2,417
Source documents
2,521
States
7
p25 $2,816p75 $7,000

133 of 2,550 prices fell outside the Tukey fences (p25 − 1.5×IQR to p75 + 1.5×IQR) and are excluded from the figures above. They remain on the item pages below.

The 4 descriptions behind this price

Each agency prints this item in its own words. Every one keeps its own page and its own median; this page is the pooled view.

As the agency printed itWinning bidsMedianp25–p75
Portable Changeable Message Sign (Ea)1,113$3,887$2,000 – $6,500
Changeable Message Sign Unit1,103$5,824$4,360 – $7,400
Portable Changeable Message Signs311$6,000$3,225 – $10,000
Changeable Message Sign23$6,000$4,750 – $9,049

By agency

TDOT1,121
Caltrans (District 8)364
Caltrans (District 11)279
Caltrans (District 4)199
Caltrans (District 12)121
ODOT (Region 2)112
Caltrans (District 7)79
ODOT (Region 1)75
ODOT (Region 3)51
ODOT (Region 5)39
ODOT (Region 4)32
Caltrans (District 1)28

By state

Tennessee1,121
California1,113
Oregon309
Montana3
North Carolina2
Utah1
Texas1

How this bucket was built

Hubstake parses each printed description into structured attributes — material, class, size, work type — and mints the identifier HS-TRF-PCMS-EA from them. Only descriptions the parser accounted for in full are pooled; anything it could not read in full keeps its own page and stays out of this median, because the part it could not read is usually the part that moves the price. Award, bid and final-payment prices are never blended — this bucket is award prices.

How the index is built