State Dept. to Expand Yet Another Ecuadorian Counterdrug Site

Posted by Stephen Peacock - November 14, 2005 at 7:46 pm
The expansion and modernization of an existing  Ecuadorian Aero Police air base is the latest Drug War brainchild to come out of the U.S. State Dept. Indeed, the U.S. Embassy in Quito and State's Miami-based Regional Procurement Support Office only today began searching for potential contractors capable of launching Phase One of the project. It's unclear whether there is a direct connection between this initiative and an ongoing U.S. Air Force project to expand counterdrug Forward Operating Locations in Manta, Ecuador, and elsewhere in the hemisphere.

The first phase of the Ecuadorian Aero Police project will begin in early 2006, when the State Dept. hopes to break ground on the construction of several facilities at the Santo Domingo de los Colorados airport, located in Ecuador's Pichincha province, a Nov. 14 contracting document says.

This project consists of 402 square meters of office and residential buildings, 354 square meters of a helicopter hangar, and 615 square meters of helipad and vehicular area for use by the Ecuadorian Areo [sic] Police. The buildings include troop barracks for 15 people... The solicitation is planned for release to qualified offerors on about November 28, 2005, for contract award by January 2005. It is anticipated that construction will start as soon as possible after contract award, with a performance period of approximately five months from contract execution to substantial completion.

The contract resulting from this initiative has an estimated construction value of $250,000-$500,000 (U.S.). The document says that State will release a more detailed proposal and formal solicitation on or around Nov. 28.

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Details of Ecuador Aero Police Project Released

Submitted on December 1st, 2005 by Stephen Peacock
The State Dept. today posted a formal solicitation -- including a list of proposed floor plans and other architectural information
-- about the Ecuadorian Aero Police project, available via this link.

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I'm currently a high school English teacher and writer. I'm also a former Washington, DC, journalist, having worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and The Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze.