GSA permits TDX to continue work for U.S. government
The U.S. General Services Administration has agreed to allow Tanadgusix Corp. (TDX), a native corporation based at St. Paul Island, Alaska, and a Hawaiian shipyard Marisco Ltd. to continue work for the federal government.
In May, GSA threatened to debar both TDX and Marisco because attorneys for the government and an opposing shipyard alleged in complaints that TDX “mislead” the federal government that a surplus World War II-era Navy drydock would be moved to Alaska.
Joseph Neurauter, GSA’s suspension and debarment official responsible for reviewing the allegations, reversed the proposed action and dropped TDX’s threatened debarment.
According to TDX, it had “clearly stated its intention to use the drydock in Hawaii and that it never represented that it would move the 60-year-old drydock out of Hawaii.”
The future of the drydock remains the object of civil litigation in Hawaii and Alaska. According to TDX, two of the lawsuits are currently before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.