US Customs and Border Protection will start accepted “Southern Wall” bids beginning March 6 in hopes to award the contract by Mid-April. In that timeframe, business will need “concept designs” and prototypes….. Doesn’t it seem rather quick (and strangely odd) to award a contract within 5 weeks, especially by government standards? I can’t wait to hear the penalty for using “cheap” labor while building the “Southern” moat that’ll be filled with mutated seabass with frickin’ lasers attached to their heads – PB/TK
Agency plans to award Mexico border wall contracts by April – ELLIOT SPAGAT,Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursuing plans to erect “a great wall” along the 2,000-mile border.
The agency said it will request bids on or around March 6 and that companies would have to submit “concept papers” to design and build prototypes by March 10, according to FedBizOpps.gov, a website for federal contractors. The field of candidates will be narrowed by March 20, and finalists must submit offers with their proposed costs by March 24.
The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that construction will start “very soon” and is “way, way, way ahead of schedule.”
The agency’s notice gave no details on where the wall would be built first and how many miles would be covered initially. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has sought employees’ opinions during border tours of California, Arizona and Texas.
It’s unclear how soon Congress would provide funding and how much. The Government Accountability Office estimates it would cost on average $6.5 million a mile for a fence to keep out people who try to enter on foot and $1.8 million a mile for vehicle barriers. There are currently 354 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, much of it built during President George W. Bush’s second term
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