I checked Ho’ohiki today to see the status of the HDOT’s appeal of the first Office of Administrative Hearings decision in favor of Hawaii Dredging.The judiciary has rescheduled the start of oral arguments from September 9 to November 18,2009.
HDCC successfully convinced the OAH to invalidate the HDOT’s bid award to Goodfellow Brothers to widen Queen Kaahumanu highway in April.However they failed in their second bid protest in July. Hawaiian Dredging tried to have the OAH award the contract to them and have the HDOT pay HDCC’s damages and costs resulting from that bid award.
The latter decision has paved the way for the HDOT advertise this project for bidding for third time in September. But this latest bid solicitation will have give the HDOT the option to reject the latest bids if the HDOT correctly awarded the project to Goodfellow Brothers in the first place.
Nonetheless, this 2 month delay in starting oral arguments for the HDOT’s appeal (#1CC0910832) is definitely bad news.
