竞标抗议活动将近18个月，法院挑战和强迫再生才推迟了在新奥尔良的大规模永久性洪水控制项目的裁决，陆军工程兵团于9月28日表示，Kiewit Corp.领导的一支团队赢得了奖金6.295亿美元的设计建设合同。

该团队说，该项目定于2014年完成，但现在要等到2016年中期才能完成。

Winning team PCCP Constructors, which includes Traylor Bros. and M.R. Pittman Group LLC, was one of two original bidders that protested the April 2011 award to CBY Design-Builders, a CDM Smith-led team. Bechtel Infrastructure also protested and participated in the rebid.

美国政府责任办公室维持了抗议活动，并下令重新考虑抗议活动；CBY向美国索赔法院提出了裁决。

法院维持了重新计算，同意GAO在投标文件中需要改变技术和价格条款的需要，但驳回了针对CBY的利益冲突指控。

一份已发表的报告说，军团不会确认所有原始竞标者的重构，但竞争者还包括CBY，Weston Solutions和Archer Western承包商。

The project will provide "permanent and more sustainable measures for reducing the risk of a 100-year level storm surge entering three outfall canals. Currently, interim closures are operating.

一种Corps spokesman says design work could begin by the end of October.