Bechtel unit wins FEMA contract worth up to $250M

[sabra]

http://washington.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/08/07/daily50.html

Bechtel unit wins FEMA contract worth up to $250M

The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave a two-year disaster recovery and housing contract to Bechtel National, a unit of Bechtel Corp.

The deal, which is capped at a $250 million ceiling, calls for Bechtel to put up and manage temporary housing and other recovery facilities after a disaster, as ordered by FEMA.

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Bechtel National is also building power grids and public works in Iraq under a $1.8 billion government contract.

[ShockediSay]

1. Why do the names Bechtel, Fema and US millions leave this taxpayer

feeling screwed again.

[geomon666]

2. Because they are.

All of the big money contracts went to republican owned and operated businesses. It's sickening.

[chapel hill dem]

7. Do other companies even bother to bid? Or is it sole source? n/t

[northzax]

11. the contract, if you read closely

is split evenly among four firms, Flour, Bechtel, CH2MHill and the Shaw Group. these are the same four firms who overran the Katrina housing contract from $400 million to $3.2 billion. nice work if you can get it.

[Critters2]

3. That'll save all the time and trouble of getting bids! nt

[Nostradammit]

4. House everybody in the Big Dig!

Give 'em all steel umbrellas.


God, please save us from these bastards...

[Acadia Blue]

5. Let the rich steal as much as possible from the taxpayers. Thats

what this administration is about. They are giving everything away to their corrupt friends.

[mbperrin]

6. Suggestions, please, so that I can convince my economics students

that to succeed in business, you have to deliver a good product, fairly priced? All the evidence is against me!!!!

[MissMillie]

8. Did they win it? or were they given it?

Maybe the Federal government ought to talk to the state of Massachusetts....

[JohMunich99]

9. Er.... I guess at least it wasn't Haliburton?

[Kat45]

10. THe company in charge of screwing up the Big Dig.

Nice!