Aliso Viejo-based Fluor Corp.’s contract to rebuild the Gulf Coast region isn’t up for grabs after all.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday that it won’t reopen contracts for bid that were awarded in the days after Hurricane Katrina last year.
Critics of the contracts said they were awarded based on political connections and not to small, local companies. FEMA officials at the time said the contracts would be rebid once initial work was completed.
Along with Fluor, Shaw Group Inc., Bechtel Corp. and CH2M Hill Inc. snagged contracts to rebuild the ravaged Gulf Coast region.
Instead of rebidding, officials with the agency said the contracts were being extended.
Fluor originally was given a $100 million contract to build temporary housing and provide communications gear to some of the more than 200,000 households displaced by the Gulf Coast disaster.
