Weeks Marine $9.2M contract

Weeks Marine Inc. of Covington, La., was awarded a $9,221,600 firm-fixed-price Army contract for construction and repair of existing earthen levees and stone dikes and subsequent hydraulic cutterhead dredging of borrow sites in Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans. Work will be performed in St. John the Baptist Parish, La., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2015. Bids were solicited via the Internet with eight received. Fiscal 2015 military construction funds in the amount of $9,221,600 are being obligated at the time of the award. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans,is the contracting activity (W912P8-15-C-0021). (DOD contracts 03/26/15)