It Begins – Trump Administration DHS Posts “Bid Contract” For Southern Border Security Wall….

General Services Administration via The Conservative Treehoue ^ | February 24, 2017 | General Services Administration via Sundance

[COUNTrecount]

The bidding process for a Southern Border Security Wall is officially announced. Bid duration ends March 20th 2017 for initial prototype, with pricing due March 24th – and anticipated award contracts Mid-April, 2017:

[KC Burke]

The government has small business participation mandates and the contractors know how to meet and deal with them.

The Pre-Solicitation posted on Fed Biz Ops says they plan to award multiple awards and split it up.

The same info says that they will request pricing for additional wall segments to be added if desired by the government and I explain up thread why they do this.

In general the “Big Boys” you speak of all team up or pair up in Joint Ventures when they do these. Not because they like it but because of financial constraints on Surety Bonding. The treasury limits of the various surety companies won’t let them bond one company for the full contract even if it is only a 3 billion dollar segment. The Surety companies that write the bonds therefore push and the government supports risk limitation in seeing these large companies pair up.

For example I have seen Kiewitt, number five (ENR 400) pair up with Hensel Phelps, number nineteen. A company that does 10.4 billion per annum teamed with another strong company that does 2.5 billion. Most owners, and the Feds included, don’t like to see their project account for more than 15 to 30% of the contractor’s annual volume. If the job starts to go in-the-tank the contractor has no other cash flow to help him recover and complete the job.

In my pairing example, you have a pair of companies with an annual volume of 13 billion between them. 15% of that is about 2 billion — annualized that is 4 billion over two years of build-out.. Kiewit is extremely strong financially for its size so maybe the JV is rated to do 7 billion in the Government’s mind. That still is only about 40% of the wall based upon DHS’s budgetary opinions.

Maybe Tutor Perini will get it. Nancy Pelosi’s husband runs them and they are number 10. If it was awarded to them and they crashed for any other reason, what would Trump’s new DHS director look like for putting all the eggs in that basket.

I am sure we will see some big guys, but there are over sixty companies that do a billion per annum that paired up with some one their size could handle a billion dollar segment over a two year period.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Animal rights activists have also threatened law suits regarding wildlife access to the river. Ranchers also depend on Rio Grande water for their livestock. I would wonder if one of those bidding on the wall has contemplated building right down the middle of the river?

Ska-rew that!

Build the wall on the Mexican side....TAKE the river.

[Stopthethreat]

Again i wish i could take credit!

[deadrock]

A judge will halt any and all wall construction. So hire more ICE agents.

[defal33]

Where’s the requirement for a crocodiles?

They should be required to use the "Orange Crocodiles" that have been turning up everywhere in the Trump Moat.

[SPDSHDW]

I don’t want the same issues as what occurred for the bay bridge in San fran to be completed “on time”. Do it right the first time or we’ll pay for it later.

[conservative98]

FLASHBACK:

Ted Cruz: Trump ‘Is Blatantly Lying to You and Laughing About It’

During the Levin interview, Cruz brought up....reports of Trump’s off the record meeting with the New York Times, calling it all “an act, a show.” Cruz accused Trump of telling the NYT that “he’s not going to build a wall....."

“If you’re tired of being lied to, it doesn’t make any sense to support the guy who is blatantly lying to you and laughing about it,” Cruz claimed. “He is making fun of us right now, the American people. He thinks we’re gullible and he thinks if he yells and screams and curses and uses language that insults everybody that somehow people will think he’s really a conservative…”

[conservative98]

Glenn Beck: Trump 'not going to build the wall' Predicts dire consequences for 'racist' GOP with billionaire as nominee

“Now I say that with the caveat of I’ve been wrong this entire election, so maybe Donald Trump wins,” Beck said. “But let me tell you this. One way or another, he’s not going to build the wall. And if he does, then I’ll apologize to him on that day, but he’s not going to build that wall and Mexico is not going to pay for it. And if he does, I will apologize on that day.”

[Lean-Right]

The rebel conservative side
of me totally agrees with
your comment. Although
Mexico has dumped their
unwanted on us for years,
stopping the invasion
(without a war) is probably
the best option. I don’t
think Mexico losing their
half of the Rio Grande
would take it lightly.
We have a desert southwest,
they have a desert northwest.
A wall down the middle would negate
the ranchers and wildlife lovers’ concerns.

[lastchance]

That is beyond wrong.

[gleeaikin]

The concept papers better be more effective than the lovely wall shown in the article. Why no concertina wire on the top of the wall? All one needs is a grappling hook, a long rope, and practice climbing ropes to get over. One person up, pull up the others, sit on the wall admiring the view, then use the rope to lower people over the US side.

Rampant Spghook Grappling Hook With Rope,
$16.71
Walmart

Unfortunately, the illustration did not transfer here, but check this one out, with hook and other “Ninja” gear.

https://www.amazon.com/Fury-Martial-Arts-Grappling-Midnight/dp/B0009PGVG8

[gleeaikin]

See my Comment #111 for some of the drawbacks these concept papers will have to overcome. One thing, if you have any big projects of your own, get them done fast; the price of concrete will be going up, and cement mixers my be hard to come by for a while.

[dp0622]

I’ve got an extra 347 bucks laying around to form a company.

Anyone want to jump in with me and make a bid? :)

[eartick]

Where’s the requirement for a crocodiles? ...or mine fields?

Mines fields are expensive....man traps are cheap.

Then you can just leave the bodies impaled in the ground squalling and bellowing for days until they die.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,,.....I know evil

[eartick]

One thing, if you have any big projects of your own, get them done fast; the price of concrete will be going up, and cement mixers my be hard to come by for a while.

Yeah and all the illegals are being deported so there will no body to level the cement. Oh, is that what you meant by "cement mixers"?

[eartick]

I think it could easily start by September. Field Mobilization for awarded firms could be underway in July.

Marked on my Calendar but I say no it will not happen.

I will not have progressed through the lower courts by July and all the other BS that will come along with it.

Sorry, you may have the tux but you missed the ball on this one

[gleeaikin]

No, I meant those big rolly polly trucks. I think I will see if there are any small manufacturers of said trucks that might be a good stock market purchase.

[Candor7]

The Left, George Soros, and their proxy armies will attack any bidders and try to destroy them financially and get them to withdraw their bids before there is even a contract. This is a civil war and we just haven’t transitioned to live fire, yet.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Not if the bidder is Blackwater.

[spokeshave]

Couple of examples from China...building roads down rivers

[spokeshave]

And here is the machine that does it:

video here:http://www.worldmachines.net/kirow-bridge-builder-girder-erection-mega-machine-slj900-32-china/1971/