Easing up slightly on the gas pedal, the Trump administration has delayed until at least early May the award of design-build contracts for the multibillion-dollar southern border wall, even as interest mounts regarding the massive but controversial project. Almost 400 firms or individuals have registered on the project’s website as potential vendors.
The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security last month announced a whirlwind bidding process that would have jammed two rounds of bidding into a little over a month, culminating in the mid-April award of initial contracts to design and build parts of the wall.