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  • An unsuccessful bidder in the most recent $976 million award round of U.S.-Mexico border wall contracts has filed a formal protest with the U.S.
    General Accounting Office (GAO) claiming that the selection process was flawed, according to CNN. These were the first contracts funded by the military under President Donald Trump’s February national emergency declaration
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced in April that SLS Ltd. (SLSCO) had won a $789 million border contract for columbus oh dump truck company in New Mexico and that Barnard Construction had won a $187 million design-build contract for wall replacement in Arizona. Protestor Fisher Sand & Gravel told the GAO that the Army Corps' bidding procedure "effectively suppressed competition and was designed to conduct an artificial process where the end result was known ahead of time by including in the bid questionnaire an item that asked what previous bidders had done on the border wall in the last five years. This, Fisher said, narrowed the pool of qualified contractors. 
  • As part of a process that could last as long as 100 days, the Army Corps must justify its selection process to the GAO. No columbus oh dump truck company on the border wall contracts in question can begin during that time, so completion dates of Oct. 1, 2020 for the New Mexico contract and Sept. 30, 2020 for the Arizona contract could be delayed.

Dump Trucks Columbus OH Insight:

Fisher was selected in August 2017, along with several other contractors, to build a wall prototype. Since then, columbus oh dump truck company CEO Tommy Fisher has offered to build 234 miles of border wall for $1.4 billion, a price that includes 214 miles of border wall and 20 miles of levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. For another $2.9 billion, Fisher said his columbus oh dump truck company could provide paved roads, border security technology and a warranty. Prior to that, the North Dakota-based contractor had given estimates of between almost $11 billion and $12 billion for 700 miles of a cast-in-place concrete border wall. 

If the Trump administration’s border wall plan can prevail over legal challenges from the House and elsewhere, it could soon be able to tap into up to $8 billion of Pentagon funds diverted from military counter-narcotics programs and construction budgets. In preparation, the Army Corps has issued a Prequalification of Sources notice aimed at columbus oh dump truck company interested in doing border wall work. 

Sure to spark additional pushback are the Department of Homeland Security’s recently published decisions to waive environmental laws and other regulations (read about them here, here and here) in order to expedite additional border wall projects in Arizona and New Mexico.