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Friday, September 30, 2005

Who is the Gulf Group?

(Total411.info) -- Sept. 29 2005 -- It appears the contractor who was working on the section of floodwall along the 17th Street Canal which collapsed can be identified. First let's look at the contract solicitation from the Army Corps of Engineers via Dredging News Online 3 August 2001:

OFFADD: US Army Corps of Engineers, Dist New Orleans, PO Box 60267, New Orleans, LA 70160
SUBJECT: Y--LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN, LOUISIANA AND VICINITY, HURRICANE PROTECTION PROJECT, HIGH LEVEL PLAN, 17TH STREET OUTFALL CANAL, HAMMOND HIGHWAY COMPLEX, ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON PARISHES, LOUISIANA
SOL DACW29-01-B-0088
POC Contract Specialist, Dianne Allen, (504) 862-1120
DESC: The work consists of constructing a pre-cast concrete girder bridge; constructing approach slabs, concrete roadway and asphalt overlays on bridge approaches; constructing floodwalls and a swing gate adjacent to the bridge, pulling and driving H-piles; constructing surface drain inlets and drain lines; demolition of existing bridge; riprap removal; dredging; site cleaning; levee enlargement; fertilising, seeding and sodding; and other incidental work. THIS IS A COMPETITIVE 8(a) SET-ASIDE. THE SET-ASIDE REGION IS LIMITED TO LOUISIANA.
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And here's a notice about the reward from FBO (Federal Business Opportunities) Daily JANUARY 27, 2002:

Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Vicinity Hurricane Protection 17th Street Outfall Canal Metairie Relief, Hammond Highway Complex, Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana
Notice Date 1/25/2002
Notice Type Award
Contracting Office US Army Engineer District, New Orleans-Civil Works, ATTN: CEMVN-CT, P.O. Box 60267, New Orleans, LA 70160-0267 ...
Solicitation Number DACW29-01-B-0088 ...
Point of Contact Katrina Pelrean, (504) 862-2880
Email your questions to US Army Engineer District, New Orleans-Civil Works katrina.d.pelrean@mvn02.usace.army.mil)
Award Number DACW29-02-C-0016
Award Date 12/27/2001
Awardee: Gulf Group, Inc. 1654 E. 5th Street Panama City, FL 32401
Award Amount $4920687 . . .
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Now, that work was still going on in January 2005 and scheduled to finish in April according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune January 29, 2005. And Pulitzer-winning reporter Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News reported the day after Katrina struck that "a contractor had been racing to finish this summer was a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach."

So what or who is behind this Gulf Group? It turns out their top Health & Safety Engineer, Chad Bruckschen, has a history with Bechtel, a leading Bohemian-Grove, military-industrial ,black-op corporation. Bruckschen also runs another business on the side, Inland Equipment Services (850-872-2129), which has provided concrete for previous Army Corps projects. Interestingly, both Gulf Group and Inland Equipment Services have managed to qualify for the federal 8a set-aside program for minority-owned businesses.

And Gulf Group's President G.M. Hobbs, Sr. has two interesting items in his bio which beg for more research:

1984: Organized the American National Bank, was chairman of the Board until 1987 when bank was sold.(assets of $30,000,000)

1985: Founder of the United States Federal Savings Bank of Tallahassee, FL. which granted FOLIC Insurance and became known as the Federal Home Loan Bank.
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To what degree were these financial instituions associated with the Savings & Loan shenanigans of the 1980s and figures such as Jackson Stephens and BCCI? More research is needed on this and the Gulf Group and all contractors who have recently worked on New Orleans' magically exploding concrete floodwalls.

Labels: bohemian grove, Katrina

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Comments:

Notice that the name of the US Army contracting officer is "Katrina".
Also, the job of performing civil engineering on public projects needs to taken away fron the Corp of Engineers and especially the US Army and assigned to the Dept. of the Interior.

posted by Anonymous : 1/10/05 08:46

hahaha Katrina. yer a nut.

Dept of Int is just another sandbox for administration buddies, and stepping stone bureaucratic jobbers. They don't take it any more seriously than FEMA :-0 and they don't do that great of a job as it is. Look at how they want to turn national parks intended for preservation into a money making tourist industry. Save the animals as long as you can teach em a trade and make a dollar?

posted by Anonymous : 1/10/05 15:18