WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- The Pentagon Thursday awarded major construction contracts worth $1.1 billion to two U.S. firms for work in Iraq.
The contracts are the leading edge of about $5 billion in construction contracts that have been set aside for companies in the United States and other coalition countries.
FluorAMEC, LLC, of Greenville, S.C, won a contract of up to $500 million for design-build services for construction, rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of electrical power generation facilities.
Washington International, Inc./Black & Veatch Joint Venture, of Boise,
Idaho won a contract with a ceiling of $600 million to provide design-build services for national water resource projects including repair and/or construction of water resources supplies and transmission networks nationwide.
On Wednesday it awarded seven program management awards worth a total of $130 million for Iraq reconstruction.
The Pentagon has still not decided whether companies from non-coalition countries will be able to comnpete for non-construction awards. About $6 billion has been set aside for those projects.
