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Dive Brief:
- Perini Management Services and Skanska recently won US Coast Guard construction work worth $315 million and $271 million, respectively.
- The Coast Guard Selected Perini Management Servicesa Tutor Perini unit, to build a new fuel dock to support major cutting operations at Alaska’s Kodiak base. Meanwhile, the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command used Skanska replace the Coast Guard pier at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island.
- The awards come amid a large number of US military contract awards recently in the news. To close out September, Turner Construction, Granite Construction and Tutor Perini highlighted wins for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. That news also included another Coast Guard contract from Perini Management Services, a $43 million job for a new pier in Astoria, Oregon.
Diving knowledge:
Perini Management Service’s work at Base Kodiak includes the removal of unexploded ordnance, waterfront improvements, a new fuel supply building, utilities, cutter loops and other site services, according to a news release Monday.
The Coast Guard awarded the new Alaska contract under the accelerated design-build-to-budget project delivery method, according to the release. The delivery approach, which was included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026integrates design and construction.
It’s part of a broader trend of military agencies using another transaction authority to speed up procurement, according to a AEC Haskell Company LinkedIn Post. The process compresses the early stages of a project by asking bidders to respond with solutions to a specific problem, rather than bidding for a predetermined scope.
Work on the Kodiak project at Perini’s management base began last month with substantial completion scheduled for September 2030.
Skanska’s Coast Guard work in Newport, Rhode Island, involves the demolition of the existing Pier 1 and the construction of a new pier capable of docking four offshore patrol boats, according to an Oct. 2 press release from the contractor.
The Skanska project has also started, with work expected to be completed by March 2030.
