(KNZA)--The Kansas Department of Transportation has approved a bid for a local highway improvement project.

According to a news release from KDOT, Vance Brothers Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, was awarded the contract for the sealing of a more than 10-mile stretch of K-20 Highway in Brown County in the amount $297,915.

The project will take place from the U.S. 75/K-20 junction east to the west city limits of Horton.

A project start date has not yet been announced.

The bid letting took place May 22 in Topeka.