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Contract Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 5th, 2017

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DHS Selects Four Firms for Border Wall PrototypesCustoms and Border Protection awarded potential $300 million contracts to four construction companies to build concrete wall prototypes as part of the Trump administration’s plans to add more physical barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico to deter illegal immigration into the U.S. The five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts were made to Caddell Construction Co. of Alabama, Arizona-based Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., Texas Sterling Construction Co., and W.G. Yates & Sons…

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