The Army Corps of Engineers is doing all the contract management for the border wall. They developed two large standing multiple award task order contracts (MATOCs) to support the Project Office:
(A Western one) W9126G18R0096 MATOC for Horizontal Construction Services in support of the San Diego, El Centro, Yuma, and Tucson Border Patrol Sectors.
(And an Eastern one) W9126G18R0092 MATOC for Horizontal Construction Services in support of the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend and El Paso Border Patrol Sectors.
A pool of vendors have been pre-qualified to participate in these contracts, to use a rapid bidding process to compete on task orders for individual segments of wall.
Those vendors have been brought up to speed on the Master Project Management Plan - the exact route, the design requirements and specifications; and they have a very good idea of the priority list. So they are ready to bid pretty quickly when an individual segment comes up for bid.
This Program is ready for the big money bomb. Everyone is ready to ramp up construction now - just add money.
Drone footage taken in New Mexico of Border Wall being built in Summer 2018: https://youtu.be/S024otpADnQw
Drone footage from Summer 2018 of Border Wall being built in Calexico, California: https://youtu.be/Q_KrwNVxx9g
Thanks good information
IIRC the replacement wall funding was taken from “repair” funds. There has been two amounts awarded to actually build wall in past two budgets.
One big push will get ER done. It’s 1/8 complete already (practice)