Bechtel Wins Its Second Big Contract for Iraq

[muchacho]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 — For the second time in nine months, the engineering company Bechtel National, the government contracting arm of the Bechtel group, has won a large government contract to help restore power, water and other essential services in Iraq.

Officials from the United States Agency for International Development said Tuesday that the deal could be worth as much as $1.82 billion over two years. It follows the awarding of a $1 billion contract for similar work over 20 months that Bechtel won in April.

The latest award was made after a three-month open bidding process in which Bechtel competed against two other companies, which were not identified. The earlier award came after the agency invited Bechtel and six other companies to bid for reconstruction work.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/international/middleeast/07CONT.html?ex=1074056400&en=0b2a0127559b0714&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[leesa]

1. Simply robbing us blind. I am against capital punishment, but in the

case of the treason committed against the US by the Bush Crime Family, when they are found guilty, I'm all for it.

[mac56]

2. oops - I was wrong -

I posted that Dianne Feinstein's husband Richard Blum is a bigwig with Bechtel.

Not so. He's a bigwig with URS, one of Bechtel's competitors and occasional collaborators.

Sorry. Carry on...

[cosmicdot]

3. but, not too far off ... The Carlyle Group is a major investor in URS

[stickdog]

4. Billions & billions used to refer to stars.

Now it refers to the profiteering raked in Halliburton (Cheney), Carlyle (Poppy & Baker) and Bechtel (Schultz) in Iraq.