Peter1469
03-03-2017, 07:43 PM
Mexican cement company to bid on wall work (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/03/mexican-company-says-its-open-to-providing-cement-to-build-border-wall/?utm_term=.69b457767cd2)
They may be able to get some of the work. They already have cement plants near the wall sites.
President Trump’s vows to make Mexico pay for a promised border wall — estimated to cost up to $20 billion — has stirred resentment there, where the country’s leader has repeatedly said there will be no such payment.
But the chairman of a Mexico’s largest cement company said he would “gladly” consider bidding on the project.
Rogelio Zambrano Lozano, chairman of Mexico-based Cemex, told the newspaper Reforma on Wednesday that if asked for a quote, his company would be willing to offer one. So far, no one has asked, a spokesman confirmed.
“If one of our clients asks us to give prices on materials, we have the responsibility to provide it,” the spokesman said in a statement, “but it doesn’t imply Cemex would participate in the project.”
The Department of Homeland Security will begin soliciting bids to design and build wall prototypes as early as Monday, and well over 300 businesses have already expressed interest in taking part. The agency plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April, according to FedBizOpps.gov, (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b8e1b2a6876519ca0aedd748e1e491cf&tab=core&tabmode=list&=) a website for federal contractors.
Good luck to them!
They may be able to get some of the work. They already have cement plants near the wall sites.
President Trump’s vows to make Mexico pay for a promised border wall — estimated to cost up to $20 billion — has stirred resentment there, where the country’s leader has repeatedly said there will be no such payment.
But the chairman of a Mexico’s largest cement company said he would “gladly” consider bidding on the project.
Rogelio Zambrano Lozano, chairman of Mexico-based Cemex, told the newspaper Reforma on Wednesday that if asked for a quote, his company would be willing to offer one. So far, no one has asked, a spokesman confirmed.
“If one of our clients asks us to give prices on materials, we have the responsibility to provide it,” the spokesman said in a statement, “but it doesn’t imply Cemex would participate in the project.”
The Department of Homeland Security will begin soliciting bids to design and build wall prototypes as early as Monday, and well over 300 businesses have already expressed interest in taking part. The agency plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April, according to FedBizOpps.gov, (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b8e1b2a6876519ca0aedd748e1e491cf&tab=core&tabmode=list&=) a website for federal contractors.
Good luck to them!