Reply #69: Here's the general contract - Just Me IS RIGHT, PEOPLE!

[muriel_volestrangler]

Brown & Root Services, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a maximum estimated $75,000,000 cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery order contract with a guaranteed minimum of $100,000 for emergency construction capabilities. The total contract amount is not to exceed $300,000,000 (base year plus four option years). Work will be performed at worldwide locations, to be determined, when task orders are awarded. Work is expected to be complete by June 2001. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 44 proposals solicited and three offers received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic Division, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N62470-00-D-0005).

http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2000/c06292000_ct373-00.html

That means Halliburton got a contract for "when we need things built, we'll come to you".

This does NOT mean the US government was planning the prison in 2000.