(This story was updated to add new information.)
City officials have landed on their pick for a company that would design and build what may be the region’s first seawater desalination plant — negotiations could soon be underway.
Staff is expected to begin discussions with Westlake, Texas-based Kiewit Infrastructure South Co., according to a news release issued Friday afternoon.
It is the same company that constructed the seawater desalination facility in Carlsbad, California, Corpus Christi City Manager Peter Zanoni told the Caller-Times.
A subsidiary of the Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit Corporation, the firm scored the highest among the three qualifying businesses that had been in consideration by the city to take on the project, according to the city’s email.
In the news release, officials described scores as being assigned via “best value selection (combination of price, qualifications, experience, and approach.)”
“(Kiewit) is one of the largest construction and engineering organizations in North America,” the email states. “Locally, Kiewit employs over 1,600 personnel at their 400-acre fabrication and laydown yard in Ingleside, Texas.”