Aviation Board Scraps Proposals for New Orleans Terminal
In a bid process hit by controversy, the New Orleans Aviation Board has scrapped recent proposals to build a new $546-million terminal at New Orleans' Louis Armstrong International Airport. One of the competing teams has re-formed with a different lineup for the new competition.
The first round of the competition ended with two joint ventures receiving identical scores from the board review committee. The "tie-breaker round" named a joint venture of Parsons Corp. and Odebrecht USA the winner. The competing Hunt Boh Gibbs Metro JV, however, filed a protest, saying a scoring discrepancy unfairly awarded the job to Parsons-Odebrecht. Rather than be mired in protest proceedings, the board decided to scrap the first request for proposals.