Corps Picks Firms for $7B Contract, Awards First Task Order to Kiewit

The U.S. Military Corps of Engineers Galveston District has chosen 15 corporations to compete for jobs on a a number of award job order contract price as much as $7 billion. Officers additionally awarded the primary $403.9-million order to Kiewit U.S. Contractors Co. for work on a Gulf Coast flood safety mission in Port Arthur, Texas.

Work areas beneath the contract will probably be decided with every order, however Corps officers mentioned the multiple-award construction offers a extra environment friendly course of to ship massive civil infrastructure initiatives alongside the Texas coast. 

The company obtained 35 submissions for contracts, in accordance with an award discover. Chosen corporations embody Gideon Contracting LLC; Randy Kinder Excavating Inc.; Central Environmental Inc.; Tybe-Garney Federal JV LLC; Ahtna-Nice Lakes E&I JV; Flatiron Dragados Constructors Inc.; Posillico Civil Inc. Coastal Environmental Group Inc., a JV; Webber LLC; Gulf Coast Builders LLP; Gulf Coast Constructors LLC; Barnard Development Co. Inc.; Galveston, SLSCO Ltd.; Kiewit U.S. Contractors Co.; Archer Western Development LLC; and Maloney-Odin, a three way partnership.

They’re eligible to compete for job orders on the hybrid contract with a mixture of firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive and fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment job orders for design-build and design-bid-build horizontal development, in accordance with the Corps. 

Work awarded beneath the contract is estimated to finish by April 2033.

Port Arthur Venture First Up

The contract’s seed award is a design-build order for work on the Corps’ Port Arthur Venture in Port Arthur, Texas, which is a part of its bigger Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. 

“This award, which represents the most important development contract so far for the mission, is a vital step within the long-term effort to enhance flood safety for the Port Arthur space,” mentioned Coalter Baker, govt director of the Texas Gulf Coast Safety District, in a press release. The district and the Texas Normal Land Workplace are serving to to fund the roughly 35% native portion of the mission from Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7.

The Port Arthur mission is upgrading hurricane safety infrastructure constructed between the Nineteen Sixties and the Eighties, in accordance with the Corps. It includes changing greater than 13 miles of earthen levees, development or reconstruction of 5 miles of floodwall and related buildings, development of two.2 miles of recent levee, fronting safety at 10 pumping stations, substitute of 21 highway and railroad closure buildings and erosion safety enhancements. 

The Corps has deliberate to construct the Port Arthur mission by way of eight contracts, with.work set to be accomplished in 2033.

Kiewit’s piece of the mission beneath the newly awarded job order consists of substitute of 9,525 ft of floodwall, 2,300 ft of levee raises, 4 levee-floodwall tie-ins and fronting safety at three pump stations, in accordance with the Corps. Its work is predicted to start out in the summertime of 2026 and take about three-and-a-half years to finish. Firm representatives didn’t instantly reply to inquiries concerning the mission.

“This funding improves these defenses to supply extra resilience and safety to additional safeguard Texans from the rising risk of storm surge and flooding,” mentioned Col. Rhett Blackmon, commander of the Corps’ Galveston District, in a press release.

The mission additionally focuses on areas round Freeport and Orange County, Texas.