The four contracts under investigation, no-bid contracts for emergency construction work, were granted between 1998 and 2000 by the county's Board of Acquisition and Contract to the County Site Development Corporation.
In 1874 or 1875, John Sifton won contracts for preliminary construction work on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and moved the family to Winnipeg, where Arthur completed high school at Wesley College.
The reports showed large contracts for construction firms working on the headquarters of the Commerce Department, Veterans Administration, Interior Department, Coast Guard, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, among others.
The corps has advertised 49 contracts for engineering and construction work in the area, but so far only a dozen have been awarded, said Lewis F. Setliff III, who leads the corps' restoration task force.
Kiewit sued the DWP two years ago, charging that the utility had refused to pay the company for the costs of delays and additional work under its $440-million 440-millionr contracttion and design work at the generating station in Playa del Rey.
The new business case suggests that a process is put in place to ensure all recommendations from the inquiry are taken into account before contracts for the new construction works are signed.
Nationwide contracts for all kinds of construction work in July had a total value of $6,177,789,000, just a bit below the July , 1969 total of $6,180,435,000, the F. W. Dodge division of the Mc‐Graw‐ Hill Information Systems Com pany reported yesterday.
