so, I just incorporate my cement business here, using a straw man, then be low bidder, then buy my cement from Cemex and sell to the feds.
I am reminded of my experience with a DC gov’t agency...working out a task to buy office chairs.
In the end, rather than allowing me to buy chairs at X-price...I had to buy via a women-owned or minority-owned business, and pay 20-percent on top of the discount price that I had arranged for. What I figured out after the deal was forced upon me by the organization budget people...was that this woman-owned company consisted of one single woman, who worked out of her home in Penn, and was simply paying someone within the DC structure to ensure she got various contracts throughout the year.
On this border discussion...it’s a 99-percent chance that Mexican concrete will be used. You may buy it via some American middle-man...but there are various characters lining up to pretend to be American concrete companies....just fakes. We will all laugh about this in a couple of years when the concrete starts crumbling.