When Edwin R. Nolan, the U.S. ambassador to Suriname, held the embassy’s annual July 4 celebration this year in Paramaribo, it didn’t take place at the ambassador’s residence—where it has been held before—but at the new embassy complex, completed less than a year earlier.
The State Dept. is pushing forward with its embassy construction program, expecting to award contracts this year to build four new facilities and renovate two others.
An attorney for Alabama-based Caddell Construction Co. has not decided whether it will appeal a Nov. 17 Court of Federal Claims decision that rejected its protest of a $95.8-million U.S. State Dept. embassy contract award to a competitor, Framaco International Inc.