Marinette Marine loses appeal Shipbuilder had protested $1.5 billion contract award

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | January 13, 2009| | Copyright

Marinette Marine Corp. has lost an appeal of a U.S. Coast Guard shipbuilding contract, valued at up to $1.5 billion, that was awarded to a competitor.

The decision by the Government Accountability Office was confirmed Monday by federal officials.

Last October, Marinette protested the contract award for construction of Coast Guard cutters to Bollinger Shipyards Inc., of Lockport, La.

Bollinger had been involved in a $100 million Coast Guard project that failed only a few years ago. The government never recovered its money from the failed project that was intended to convert 110-foot cutters ...

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