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 activity order contract value 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 places beneath the contract will probably be decided with every order, although Corps officers mentioned the multiple-award construction gives them with a extra environment friendly course of for delivering giant civil infrastructure initiatives alongside the Texas coast. 

The Corps acquired 35 submissions for contracts, in response to an award discover. The 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 JV. 

The chosen corporations are eligible to compete for activity orders on the hybrid contract with a mixture of firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive and fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment activity orders for design-build and design-bid-build horizontal development. 

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

Port Arthur Mission First Up

The contract’s seed award is a design-build order for work on the Corps’ Port Arthur Mission, which is a part of its bigger Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay (S2G) Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. 

“This award, which represents the most important development contract so far for the S2G Mission, is a crucial step within the long-term effort to enhance flood safety for the Port Arthur space,” mentioned Coalter Baker, government director of Texas’ Gulf Coast Safety District, in a press release. GCPD and the Texas Common Land Workplace are serving to fund Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7’s roughly 35% native portion of the mission. 

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

The Corps has deliberate to construct the Port Arthur Mission by way of eight contracts. The work is scheduled to all be accomplished in 2033.

Kiewit’s piece of the Port Arthur Mission beneath the newly awarded activity order contains 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 response to the Corps. Kiewit representatives didn’t instantly reply to inquiries in regards to the mission. Its work is anticipated to start out in the summertime of 2026 and take about three-and-a-half years to finish. 

“This funding improves these defenses to offer extra resiliency 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. “This mission is emblematic of our efforts up and down the Texas coast to extend coastal storm and flood threat administration for the communities we serve.”

The S2G Mission can also be specializing in areas round Freeport and Orange County, Texas.