Navy awards
$250 million
isle contract
A Pittsburgh company
By Russ Lynch
will do the environmental
work in Hawaii
Star-BulletinA Pittsburgh company has been awarded a $250 million Navy contract for environmental work in Hawaii and the Pacific.
International Technology Corp. also received a similar $250 million contract with a Navy facilities command in San Bruno, Calif.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor has signed the company to a one-year contract, with six additional one-year options, for what International Technology called a comprehensive range of environmental management services, design engineering, construction and remedial work.
The work, which includes prevention of environmental damage as well as cleanups of such hazards as oil spills, will be conducted in Hawaii and the Pacific Basin, all the way to the Indian Ocean, the company said.
While it is a new contract, some of the Hawaii-Pacific work already is being done by OHM Corp., which International Technology is acquiring, Richard Conte, a spokesman said.
Conte said some of the work is being done at Guam, Midway and other Pacific islands where the Navy has operations. "They send us out to specific work sites. They have work they already know is there," he said.
Some of the work involves fixing existing environmental damage, and the company also establishes preparedness to deal with accidents, he said.
The International Technologies-OHM merger is expected to be completed after shareholders meet June 11, the company said. Since the merger plan was announced in January, the company has received $1.3 billion in environmental contracts, said Anthony J. Deluca, International Technologies president and chief executive officer.
