Park Service Awards No-Bid Contract to Cover Bridge Statues in Gold

From dnyuz.com

The Trump administration has handed out no-bid contracts this year to overhaul some of Washington’s most famous landmarks, including Lafayette Park and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Now, it is using a no-bid contract to spruce up some of the capital’s more obscure features: four largely overlooked statues near the National Mall. The statues, featuring 19-foot-tall humans and horses, have been deteriorating for decades at the end of two busy bridges. But this spring, the government decided that the figures needed to be covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf, and that this painstaking job needed to be done before ... (full story)