HDCC’s protest of the bid award to Goodfellow Brothers to widen Queen Kaahumanu Highway is moving forward. I strongly feel HDCC’s bid protest is a bunch of nonsense.Especially since it seems they have a much weaker case than Kiewit Pacific Company did during the first bid go around
But the latter pales in comparison to their poor job performance on Phase I. HDCC should be embarrassed that its taken them almost 4 years to widen 3 miles of road. However they must feel that they’ve done a great job on Phase I. If not they wouldn’t be fighting this latest bid award to GBI. Nonetheless, this is another example of a contractor (HDCC) being a legend in their own mind.
In short, HDCC should drop their bid protest. The Kona community needs phase II to be built in a timely manner.Which will happen if Goodfellow Brothers is allowed to move forward with construction of this much needed roadway project.
On a related note, there was a reader comment here which I thought is a great idea. We should be urging the state to bring a unbiased engineering firm to analyze HDCC’s job performance on Phase I.
“what i’d like to see.if somehow at all possible,Is to take all the information and details ,and delays,etc, and take this project info to a neutral expert of road construction ,an expert also too of dealing with lave rock blue rock,and worst case scenarios, and see if this expert agrees or disagrees that its okay that it took four years to build a couple of miles of road”
I cannot believe the gross miscarriage of justice that happened in this traffic death.Hawaii County’s police, and prosecutor really dropped the ball on this one. Thus the individual who allegedly hit this lady will likely get no more than a slap on the wrist.There is certainly no justice in that for the family of the deceased. I hope this travesty wakes people up that we need to boot out Hawaii County prosecutor Jay Kimura when he comes up for re-election in 2012.
Lastly, I’m thrilled to read that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lloyd King may order a re-bid of Aloha Airlines intellectual assets.It was utterly blasphemous to the legacy of Aloha Airlines that Mesa would end up with these assets. Especially since they were a huge reason why Aloha Airlines ceases to exist today.
