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The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) is a program administered by the US Army to provide contingency support to augment the Army force structure. The first three contracts (and all task orders under them) were awarded to a single bidder in each round of competition (KBR for the first and third contracts and DynCorp for the second contract). The fourth and current (as of 2013) contract was split between three companies (KBR, DynCorp, andFluor Corporation) with each company having the opportunity to compete for task orders.

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In 1985, LOGCAP was established primarily to preplan for contingencies and to leverage the existing civilian resources. However, it was not until three years later before it was first used. In support of a United States Third Army mission, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) used LOGCAP to contract for the construction and maintenance of two petroleum pipelines systems in Southwest Asia.

The current task order contract concept of LOGCAP began in August 1992 when USACE awarded the first contract (LOGCAP I) to Brown and Root Services (now KBR) in August 1992 as a cost-plus-award-fee contract, which was used in December that year to support the United Nations forces in Somalia. This contract was also used to support forces in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Italy and Rwanda.

The LOGCAP contract was recompeted in late 1996, with Army Materiel Command (AMC) taking over management of the program from USACE (although USACE has retained the support requirements for the Balkans Peninsula continuously since that date). The second contract (LOGCAP II) was awarded to DynCorp in January 1997. From 1997 to 2001, DynCorp supported US forces in the Philippines, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, East Timor, and Panama.

AMC awarded LOGCAP III, the third contract, to KBR in 2001. LOGCAP III primarily supported the Global War on Terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Djibouti, and Georgia.

However, as a result of the criticisms leveled against KBR for contract performance, AMC ended the LOGCAP III contract in 2007. The current contract (LOGCAP IV) differed greatly from its three predecessors, in that multiple contracts were awarded (to KBR, DynCorp, and Fluor), whereupon the three could compete for future task orders.

Sunday, July 08, 2007

A Little History of the Pacific Legal Foundation

The legal team that successfully put their argument for resegregation before the conservative majority the Supreme Court has a history of standing up for the trampled rights of corporations, particularly corporate polluters. In the 70s, this group of crusaders supported all sorts of corporate rights, from spraying DDT and herbicides in national forests, to arguing for the inalienable rights developers in property disputes, to campaigning against affirmative action policies. From ExxonSecrets.org:

The Pacific Legal Foundation was the nation's first business oriented public interest law firm founded in 1973 by members of the California Chamber of Commerce. PLF was politically supported by officials in then Governor Ronald Reagan's cabinet, including founding member Edwin Meese.

PLF's initial financial support came from members of the California Chamber of Commerce and J. Simon Fluorof the Fluor Corporation's oil, nuclear and mineral dollars. Anti-environmental from the start, PLF's early actions supported the use of DDT, the use of herbicides in national forests, and the use of public range land without requiring an environmental impact review. They also supported at least six pro-nuclear power cases before the early eighties while accepting funding from Pacific General Electric (PGE), a utility which has gained a great deal through the development of nuclear power in the Pacific Northwest. In the nineteen-eighties PLF won several cases that are considered land marks by those working on property rights issues today: Nollan v the California Coastal Commission and First Church, both Supreme Court victories which provide precedence for the takings litigation pursued today (Oliver Houck, "With Charity For All," Yale Law Journal, 1993).

Peter J. Fluor "is Chairman and CEO of Texas Crude Energy, Inc., a private, independent oil and gas exploration company. Mr. Fluor also serves as lead director of Fluor Corporation and as director of Cameron International Corporation and The Welch Foundation. He is a member of the All American Wildcatters Association and the Council of Overseers of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University." [1]

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  1. ↑ Directors, Anadarko Petroleum, accessed January 19, 2009.

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One Enterprise Drive

Aliso Viejo, CA 92656-2606

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"Alan L. Boeckmann joined ADM’s board of directors in February 2012 and serves as a member of the nominating/corporate governance and compensation/succession committees.

"Boeckmann served in a variety of engineering and executive management positions during his 35-plus year career with Fluor Corporation, including non-executive chairman of the board from 2011-2012, chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 2002-2011, and president and chief operating officer from 2001-2002. His tenure with the company included responsibility for global operations and multiple international assignments.

"Boeckmann currently serves as a director of Sempra Energy and as chairman and a director of the Hearing and Speech Foundation, a non-profit organization. He has previously served on the boards of American Petroleum Institute, BHP Billiton, Burlington-Northern Santa Fe, National Petroleum Council and Southern University’s Cox School of Business. " [1]

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:{In the weeks and months following the storm, the doled out lucrative, no-bid contracts to politically connected companies. Texas-based Fluor Corp., one of the largest procurement and construction companies in the world, was one of four companies awarded contracts worth $400 million each to provide the ubiquitous “FEMA trailers” to homeless residents.(52)  The Fluor Political Action Committee donated more than $500,000 in the 2006 election cycle; when it gave directly to U.S. Congressional candidates, 74 percent of its campaign contributions went to Republicans.(53) 

When small, local businesses complained that all the reconstruction work was going to out-of-state corporations, FEMA director David Paulison pledged in October 2005 to rebid the four large trailer contracts. But instead of rebidding the original contracts, the agency eventually asked for bids on a different project: 36 contracts for trailer maintenance and removal, totaling about $3.6 billion. The bid guidelines stated, “this procurement is a 100 percent small business set-aside,”(54)  and promised that Louisiana businesses would get preference. 

Those good intentions seem to have been thrown out the window. The company that came away with the biggest piece of the pie, PRI-DJI, received $400 million of the new contracts. A federal audit showed that DJI stood for Del-Jen Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fluor Corp. The subsidiary company had partnered with Project Resources, Inc., a minority-owned firm in San Diego, to become eligible.(55) 

Other companies that provided Louisiana addresses weren’t listed in Louisiana’s database of corporations, and a New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter who visited one address found the office occupied by a different company.(56) 

Local business owners were outraged: “I was mad, to put it mildly,” Kenny Edmonds of River Parish RV's Inc. told the Times-Picayune when his bid was rejected, and he learned who had gotten the contracts. Politicians were equally steamed: “This is not acceptable,” U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana, told the Times-Picayune.(57) 

Several small business owners who didn’t win contracts have filed formal complaints, a process that usually suspends the contracts in question. FEMA, however, decided against that course of action. A spokesman told the Times-Picayune that the bidding process was fair, the winners were well-qualified and said the contracts were too urgent to be delayed. “We are not going to stop the work, because families depend on our support,” the spokesman said.(58)}:

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DISASTER PROFITEERING:

Will They Do for the Gulf Coast What They Did for Iraq?

Funds to rebuild the areas of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana hit by the storm are flowing quickly. Congress has already approved $62 billion for disaster relief, and the total price tag is expected to exceed $100 billion. "They are throwing money out, they are shoveling it out the door," according toWashington lobbyist James Albertine (John M. Broder, "In Storm's Ruins, a Rush to Rebuild and Reopen for Business," Washington Post, September 10, 2005).

Normal contracting rules have been suspended, so the majority - if not all - of the contracts for hurricane relief and rebuilding will be awarded on a no-bid, cost-plus basis. This is a recipe for fiscal disaster. As Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight has said, this process is likely to attract greedy, self-interested companies: "This is very painful. You are likely to see the equivalent of war profiteering - disaster profiteering." 

Among the politically connected firms that have already received contracts related to Hurricane Katrina cleanup and rebuilding include Vice President Cheney's former company, Halliburton (to rebuild military facilities affected by the storm and to help repair the breach in the levee); Bechtel, Fluor, CH2MHill, the Shaw Group, and Dewberry Technologies to build or repair housing in the region; and the private military company, BlackwaterAssociates, allegedly to guard local buildings. The majority of these firms have been active in the rebuilding of Iraq, where poor performance, overcharging, and outright fraud have been regular occurrences.

Lobbyists have also hit the ground running in an effort to help their clients secure contracts.  Most prominent among them is Joe Allbaugh, who flew to the region before many FEMA officials made their way there.  Among his clients are Halliburton and the Shaw Group, both of which have rebuilding contracts already in hand....

http://www.worldpolicy.newschool.edu/wpi/projects/arms/updates/091305Katrina.html

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Fluor Corp-$623,817Akin, Gump et al-$100,000Compass Consulting Group-$60,000Glover Park Group-$60,000ML Strategies-$60,000

Steptoe & Johnson-$40,000Sundquist Group-$40,000Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti Inc-$40,000    $400,000

Romney, Mitt (R) $31,050
Obama, Barack (D) $13,185
Clyburn, James E (D-SC) $11,250
Barrasso, John A (R-WY) $10,000
Bass, Charles (R-NH) $10,000

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Fluor Corporation is a professional services company providing engineering, procurement, constructionand maintenance, as well as project management services on a global basis. It has been ranked No. 1 on the Fortune 500 list of industries (Engineering,Construction). Its headquarters are in Irving, Texas.[3]

Fluor has also been ranked No. 1 in Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine's 2012 list of Top 100 Design-Build Firms and No. 2 on its Top 400 Contractors list.[4] Fluor was selected one of the "Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE)" for the sixth consecutive year in 2011 and named one of America's Safest Companies by EHS Today Magazine in 2011. It ranked No. 1 in Fortune's annual survey of World's Most Admired Companies in the "Engineering, Construction" industry category in 2012.

Fluor has also been named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere magazine for six consecutive years, 2007-2012. In a 2012 study of defense companies by Transparency International, it was the only company to be rated A for both the amount of information publicly available on its corruption-tackling and on its internal ethics and compliance methods.[5][6]

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The business was originally established by John Simon Fluor, a Swiss immigrant, in 1890 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin as the 'Fluor Brothers Construction Company and was incorporated in 1924. It established its credentials in the oil and gas industry when it was awarded a contract to build a natural gasoline plant for Richfield Oil in 1922. In 1932 it was awarded its first major refinery contract for Shell Oil at Wood River, Illinois. In 1947 it secured its first major overseas contract for Aramco in Saudi Arabia.[7]

Then in 1955 it was contracted by the U.S. Air Force to construct Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base.[7] It started offshore operations in 1967,[7] building its first hydrocracker plant in 1968 for the American Oil Company in Texas City.[7] In 1977 it acquired Daniel International Corporation and subsequently adopted "Fluor Daniel" as the name for its main operating subsidiary.[7]

In 1978 the company established its headquarters on an extensive corporate campus located in Irvine, California, which included 1.7 million square feet of office space and a distinctive ten-story mirrored-glass tower. The site was a local landmark and was featured in the 1991 film Defending Your Life.[8] In 1999 the company relocated to nearby Aliso Viejo, California.[9]

In 1981 it acquired St. Joe Minerals, along with its lead, zinc, and coal operations.[10] However, metal prices dropped after the acquisition, and in 1987 it sold its zinc operations to Horsehead Corporation; in 1994 it sold its lead mines to Doe Run Company.[11] In 1995 Fluor acquired ADP, a design and project management business; in 1996 it acquired Marshall Contractors.[12] In 2000 it spun off its coal operations to Massey Energy Corporation.[11] Philip J. Carroll, an alumnus of Tulane University, served as Fluor's CEO from 1998 to 2002.[13][14] The corporation was sued because of "numerous design and construction failure" in north Chile in 2002.[15]

In 2006 Fluor relocated its headquarters toIrving, Texas.[16] In 2009 Fluor entered the solar industry when it was contracted to design a 46 MW solar thermal plant in a partnership with California firm ESolar.[17]

Operations

Fluor works in wide range of sectors, including oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, commercial and institutional, government services, life sciences,manufacturing, microelectronics, mining, power, telecommunications, and infrastructure.

Fluor operates in five major business divisions:

Oil & Gasprimarily serves of upstream oil and gas production, refining of downstream, petrochemical, and chemicals.Industrial & Infrastructurebusiness line that focuses on transportation, wind power, mining and metals, life sciences, manufacturing, commercial, telecommunications, microelectronics, and healthcare.Governmentsupport operations for different U.S. federal agencies such as U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Defense.Global Servicescustomized engineering research and services such as process and methods betterment and performance improvement.Powerbusiness division focused on providing full Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Management Services for power generating markets that include gas fired, solid fueled, renewable energy, and nuclear.[18]

Major projects

In May 2008 the Kuwait National Petroleum Company awarded a construction contract to a consortium of Asian companies—Japan's JGC Corporation,South Korea’s GS, SK, Daelim Industrial, and Hyundai—and a consulting contract to Fluor to build an oil refinery, which would be Kuwait's fourth. Kuwait National Petroleum Company announced that it would be operational in 2012 and that it planned on spending $14 billion on the project.[23]

However, in March 2009, the Kuwaiti government informed Fluor to halt construction because reduced oil prices had made the project financially unfeasible. The announcement did not come entirely as a surprise because former Kuwaiti Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah had been mentioning cancellation.[24] Some investment analysts predicted the project's cancellation as early as December 2008.[25] Fluor announced that it would remove $2.1 billion, the remaining value of the contract, from its books.[23]

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  1. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-AR_1-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-AR_1-1) c(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-AR_1-2) Annual Report 2008
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  3. ^ "Fluor Office Locations." Fluor Corporation. Retrieved on November 17, 2012. "6700 Las Colinas Blvd Irving, TX 75039 U.S.A."
  4. ^ "FORTUNE 500: Our annual ranking of America's largest corporations (Industries)". Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  5. ^ Caroline Wyatt (2012-10-03). "Defence firms 'not open about anti-corruption measures'". BBC News.
  6. ^ Overall results | International Defense and Security Programme
  7. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-history_7-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-history_7-1) c(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-history_7-2) d(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-history_7-3) e(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-history_7-4) Fluor: History
  8. ^ "Maguire to Buy Former Fluor Headquarters Campus in Irvine". latimes.com. 2004-02-11. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  9. ^ "Fluor's Move Will Leave a Big Hole to Fill at Irvine's Park Place Complex". latimes.com. 1999-06-22. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  10. ^ "ST. JOE MINERALS NET DROPS 5.7% - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1981-07-23. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
  11. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-fundinguniverse.com_11-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-fundinguniverse.com_11-1) "Massey Energy Company History". Retrieved 6 September 2012.
  12. ^ Fluor Daniel And Marshall Contractors Announce Acquisition Press release, 13 November 1996
  13. ^ Forbes http://people.forbes.com/profile/philip-j-carroll/85098 |url= missing title (help).
  14. ^ http://www.bae-systems-marine.co.uk/aboutus/pcarroll.htm
  15. ^ "Meet the Disaster Profiteers: Fluor Corp. ". September 19, 2005 . Retrieved Jul 9, 2013.
  16. ^ Baker, Sandra. "Hoping for good luck: Fluor Corp. dedicates its new headquarters in Irving, where it is moving from California, with a giant horseshoe." Fort Worth Star-Telegram. June 6, 2006. Retrieved on October 18, 2009.
  17. ^ Fluor Wins Contract for 46-MW eSolar CSP Plant
  18. ^ Annual Report 2010
  19. ^ Fluor: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
  20. ^ Fluor wins $3.8bn BP Whiting modernization project Mining News, 13 August 2008
  21. ^ Marton-Vitale, Rose (25 March 2011). "BP To Start Planned Turnaround Work At Whiting Refinery". Dow Jones Newswires. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  22. ^ Fluor: Bay Bridge
  23. ^ a(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-forbes_23-0) b(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor_Corporation#cite_ref-forbes_23-1) Ackerman, Ruthie (20 March 2009). "Kuwait Fluor Deal Falls Through". Forbes. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  24. ^ Kuwait halts refinery construction, Doron Peskin, Infoprod 24.03.09
  25. ^ Daley, Will (20 March 2009). "Fluor Says Kuwait Halts $2.1 Billion in Refinery Work (Update4)". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

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BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan--You're deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and you want a hot meal, a hot shower, a clean bed, a flight, a new uniform or if you need to put out a fire, who you gonna call? LOGCAP, that's who.

As the U.S. Army evolved into a smaller force with units focused on combat arms, combat support and combat service support during the 1990s, the need to find ways to provide services once provided by Soldiers became apparent. The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program managed by Army Materiel Command and executed by Army Sustainment Command, AMC's logistics arm, is a way to leverage civilian contractors to support and augment United States and coalition forces in both wartime and humanitarian missions.

Augmentation services are classified as supply operations that may include all nine classes of supplies; field services such as laundry and bath, food service, billeting and information management; and other operations and services such as power generation and distribution, engineering and construction and physical security in the form of perimeter fencing and barrier maintenance. 

The current iteration is LOGCAP IV and differs from previous iterations in that it allows for multiple awards instead of a single contractor. In Afghanistan, the two primary contractors are Fluor Corporation and DynCorp International. Fluor operates in the northern and eastern part of the country while DynCorp operates in the west and south. 

The performance work statement is the same for both contractors said James E. Allen, LOGCAP deputy program director-Afghanistan. Each contractor is able to provide the same services, but actual services provided depend on customer requirements. Some customers require a wide range of services while others require only a few.

"We're more than 42 support battalions of services," said Allen. "We really are an expeditionary sustainment command-sized t element. We provide multiple services, many that are transparent to the end user, to virtually every U.S. and coalition service member, civilian and contractor in the CJOA-A every day."