It's Official: The Trump Administration Will Soon Solicit Bids for a New Border Wall

[kpete]

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will soon begin soliciting bids "for the design and build of several prototype wall structures in the vicinity of the United States border with Mexico." Bidding begins March 6. The official posting says the administration will select the companies to potentially build the new structure sometime in April.

The solicitation appears to correspond to President Trump's highly publicized pledge to build a new border wall along the US-Mexico border. "We're going to build a wall, don't worry about it," Trump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. "We're building the wall. We're building the wall. In fact, it's going to start soon. Way ahead of schedule, way ahead of schedule."

The official post soliciting bids for the border wall is available online here.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/trump-administration-border-wall-bids

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I hope the lowest bid is in the $50 trillion range.

That would put this folly to bed.

[tammywammy]

2. How are they paying for it? Has Congress appropriated the money?

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. Considering the brief timeline (less than 60 days since his inauguration)

I'm guessing that some of his buddies have been working on their proposals for months.

[Docreed2003]

4. Why does trump insist on repeating himself repeatedly in speeches???

Is this some "Art of the Deal" bullshit technique of making your point?? It's so incredibly annoying and distracting. Maybe that's just President 80 Word Vocabulary's way of looking strong and intelligent.

[kacekwl]

5. Another follow the money situation.

How many bidders have connections to trump,bannon,Putin,pribus,any and all repukes,Saudi Arabia etc.

[sarcasmo]

6. A Chinese company will win the bid and end up using Mexican labor.

[Mc Mike]

7. My company, WillKickback20%todRumpf Co

put in a $50 billion dollar bid.

But we can't be held liable for cost-overruns. We stated that in the bid, for legal purposes.

We also don't guarantee our work, and can't commit to actually paying any of our sub-contractors for work they perform under us.

[Vinca]

8. This may be the point where Trump begins to rage at the GOP.

There's no way they'll rubber stamp gazillions of dollars to fulfill campaign promises. Trump better start pricing chain link fencing at Home Depot.