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GAO-02-247R 1 (2001-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptanxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 November 30, 2001 The Honorable John Warner Ranking Member Committee on Armed Services United States Senate The Honorable Susan Collins The Honorable Ernest Hollings The Honorable Daniel Inouye The Honorable Frank Murkowski United States Senate Subject: National World War II Memorial: Construction Contractor Selection This letter responds to your request that we review the procedures used by the General Services Administration (GSA) in awarding the contract on behalf of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to build the National World War II (WWII) Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Specifically, you wanted to know whether GSA followed proper procedures in awarding the construction contract to a joint venture whose majority participant is owned by a U.S. company whose parent, a German-based company, was recently convicted of an antitrust violation. On June 7, 2001, GSA awarded a $56-million contract to build the WWII Memorial to the Tompkins/Grunley-Walsh Joint Venture. Tompkins, the majority participant in the joint venture, is owned by J.A. Jones Construction Company, which is owned by J.A. Jones, Inc., a U. S. subsidiary of Philipp Holzmann AG, a German-based company.' In August 2000, Holzmann pled guilty in the United States to a criminal antitrust violation for bid rigging on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) construction projects in Egypt and was fined $30 million. 'As of June 1, 2001, Tompkins' name was changed from Charles H. Tompkins Company to J.A. Jones/Tompkins Builders, Inc. Tompkins is based in Washington, D.C., and Jones in Charlotte, North Carolina. The minority participant in the joint venture awarded the contract is a joint venture between the Grunley Construction Co., Inc., and the William V. Walsh Construction Co., Inc., both of Rockville, Maryland. GAO-02-247R Construction of the National World War II Memorial

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