[PeteB570]

Weeeellll; we could halt everything until we get a number of sealed bids for each project, study them for a while and then select the lowest bidder.

Might slow things up a bit though.

[digger48]

we could halt everything until we get a number of sealed bids for each project, study them for a while and then select the lowest bidder.

then have a judge throw out all the bids and award the project to a 'minority owned' company for twice the low bid.

[My2Cents]

Weeeellll; we could halt everything until we get a number of sealed bids for each project

That should take about six months.

[p23185]

maybe all hurricane reconstruction efforts should only be awarded to small disadvanted minority businesses based exclusively in NO or La - how fast would that go??? What utter nonsense -some more wisdom from a "journalist" that knows nothing about the real world or the laws and regulations. Typical of what we have been reading all week about why the Military wasn't brought in immediately.