Tutor Perini Corp. announced June 12 CHamoru Standard time that it has been awarded a task order valued at approximately $651.8 million by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific for the hardening of critical feeders on Naval Base Guam.
The project was awarded under NAVFAC Pacific’s Facilities and Infrastructure Multiple Award Construction Contract and is to replace existing primary and secondary overhead electrical distribution feeders with new underground circuit conductors within concrete-encased duct banks to improve electrical system resiliency and reliability for facilities on Naval Base Guam.
The project will be executed through a joint venture involving Tutor Perini’s Guam-based subsidiary, Black Construction Corp.
Design will begin in August 2026 with construction to begin in April 2027 and substantial completion is anticipated in June 2031, a release said.
Other work Black Construction secured includes the $113.3 million Missile Integration Test Facility at Naval Base Guam, awarded in October 2024 and due to be completed in December 2028.
In related news that may interest potential awardees of the Navy’s Phase 2 RFP for housing in Guam – potentially due out any day if it follows the anticipated timeline – a ribbon was held June 6 at Camp Hansen in Okinawa for a new barracks with individual bedrooms for its occupants, according to the Marine Times.
For background and analysis on the Guam RFP, see Island housing remains unsolved as buildup looms. mbj
