Trailer Deals Awarded to Fluor Ally
Through a joint partnership with a smaller, minority-owned company, a huge multinational firm whose federal contract for trailers was up for rebidding has landed several new contracts that could be total more than $400 million.
Del-Jen Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of construction, procurement, and disaster relief giant Fluor Corp., is involved in a venture with PRI Inc., an Asian-American owned San Diego company, that qualifies as disadvantaged business under Federal procurement regulations. Fluor is a massive services corporation based in Aliso Viejo, California that has handled extensive disaster relief work in the past for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Fluor’s campaign contributions, the lion’s share of which have gone to Republican committees and candidates, top $930,000 since 2000, according to a post-Katrina contracting Web page maintained by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fluor’s stock has risen more than 60 percent since Hurricane Katrina hit had held a huge, nationwide contract with FEMA as the prime contractor for relief work. That contract came up for rebidding last summer, so FEMA simply broke it up and awarded four, $500 million deals for temporary housing work.
This stinks to high-heaven. More info about this in the coming week as I have time to gather much more background research.
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