oil conference

The US Army Corps of Engineers is sponsoring a pre-proposal conference in Dallas, Texas on July 14 Restore Iraqi Oil as part of awarding two new competetively bid oil infrastructure contracts.

The presolicitation notice, available at FedBizOpps, states that the Corps will award two Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) cost plus award fee 24-month contracts with three one-year options. The maximum value for the life of each contract will be $500 million and will have a minimum value of $500,000.

The contracts to be awarded will replace the non-competitive contract for emergency services work related to the oil infrastructure that was awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root by the Corps prior to the start of the war in Iraq.

Limited details about the conference are available at the Military Housing and Lodging Institute at http://www.mhli.org although you can read it below because this is all we found at the site.

Tentative Agenda for July 14, 2003
Houston Ballroom, Adams Mark Hotel
400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201

0730 to 0900
Buffet Breakfast & Registration

0900 to 0930
Introduction & Presentation

0930 to 1030
Initial Q&A Session With Expert Panel

1030 to 1100
Break

1100 to 1200
Continue Q&A With Expert Panel

1230 to 1300
Press Conference

1300 to 1500
Q&A If Required + Informal Networking

Yawn. There are only a hand full of companies who even qualify to bid for the contracts and their names have already been in the papers for months. As you can see, bpost's cynicism is still alive, well and kicking.