{"id":320528,"date":"2026-06-03T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320528\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:53:08","slug":"mike-hooks-wins-17-8m-corpus-christi-dredging-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320528\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Hooks wins $17.8M Corpus Christi dredging contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Hooks, LLC from Westlake, Louisiana, has won a $17.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for pipeline dredging of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/contract-768x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of mikehooks.com<\/p>\n<p>The total cumulative face value of the contract is $26,454,250. Bids for this project were solicited online, with four received, the\u00a0U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) said. <\/p>\n<p>Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas, with an estimated completion date of April 16, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>According to DoD, \u201cfiscal 2026 civil construction funds in the amount of $17,868,250 were obligated at the time of the award.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, is the contracting activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Hooks, LLC from Westlake, Louisiana, has won a $17.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for pipeline dredging of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,114872,114873],"class_list":["post-320528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-mike-hooks","tag-usace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}