Dive Brief:

• A selection committee's interviews of finalists to manage renovation construction at Louis Armstrong International Airport broke a tie and put the joint venture of Parsons Odebrecht ahead of a four-company local joint venture, and that has led to a legal challenge.
• Hunt Gibbs Boh Metro, made up of Hunt Construction from Indianapolis and three New Orleans companies, filed a protest Tuesday that said the tie in the first review resulted from errors in scoring and it should have put them ahead .
• The New Orleans Aviation Board put off making a decision to award the management contract, and it's unclear how long the protest will delay that or the project.

Dive Insight:

There are three local companies in the Hunt-led joint venture – Gibbs Construction, Boh Bros. Construction LLC and Metro Services Group. Metro should have been deemed a disadvantaged business enterprise, they argue. The finalists were tied at 999 out of 1,100 after the review committee evaluated their proposals, and that changed to 1,002 and 956 after the interviews.