$7.9M for Columbia River Dredging

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. in Oak Brook, IL won a $7.9 million firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance dredging, and for the Columbia River Channel Improvement project. Work will be performed in Astoria, OR (41%), Warrenton, OR (29%), Hammond, OR (7%), Skip anon, OR (7%), Ill Waco, WA (9%), and Chinook, WA (7%), and is expected to be complete by Dec. 20, 2005. There were 54 bids solicited on April 22, 2005, and three bids were received. The Army Engineer District in Portland, OR issued the contract (W9127N-05-C-0012).