Corporate News

Dakota was awarded "Midwest Construction Best of 2007" by McGraw Hill.  Dakota was ranked as one of the top ten largest minority contracting firms in the state of Wisconsin in 2006 and 2007 by the "Business Journal".

 

Dakota was awarded a $5.3m design and build contract by ACOE due to its "outstanding" rating for past performance and a better technical proposal over the low bidder.  Dakota is at its 30% completion stage led by Judy Fassbender as PM and Vernon Mickels as QC Manager. 

 

Dakota's multi-year HUD property inspection project for 7 states in Midwest was rated by HUD as "excellent" and "outstanding" in all categories led by Mindy Grittner and Don Callen because we have achieved nearly 100% accuracy and no delays in our several thousands of inspections in the past 7 years.

 

Dakota was awarded a new V.A. Hospitals $475,000 A-E contract for facility engineering and designs after its successful delivering of two previous A-E contracts for V.A. 

 

Dakota Intertek Corp appointed Rick Kormanik, P.E. of environmental engineering, to spear head the effort to perfect corporate standard operating procedures. Rick has over 35 years of managing engineering operations in several companies, including Envirex, Radian and Giles Engineering Associates, Inc.

 

After waiting for several months, Dakota was officially awarded a $10,000,000 GSA IDIQ four-year contract.  This GSA IDIQ contract marks the second such significant contract for Dakota after the Navy EMAC contract that covers 19 states in Navy Navfac Midwest base environmental cleanups.  Dakota teamed with TN&A has delivered over $5,000,000 services out of our Navy EMAC contract since 2006. !

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Dakota appointed Don Callen, a 13 year Dakota veteran, as its Navy EMAC deputy program manager.  Dakota is short listed for two more multi-million IDIQ A-E projects with V.A. Hospitals. 

Above board remediation technologies for mold and asbestos related services to support each other as a team.  Above board is the leading inspector and abatement contractor for mold, asbestos and lead impacted environmental.  Dakota is also teaming up with Kepa Services, Inc. for SDVO set aside federal services.

Wenbin Yuan, CEO of Dakota, has always been active in promoting community services.  Mr. Yuan recently helped to organize a community newspaper: Milwaukee Chinese Times that is publishing local and world news every two weeks to greater Milwaukee area.  Wenbin also coauthored a book with David Holmes to be published by Arcadia Publishing Company: "Chinese Milwaukee" to describe over 130 years of Chinese history in Milwaukee and how they struggled to turn adversity into opportunities.

Dakota appointed Rick Kormanik, P.E.  to be assistant program manager for our A-E services.. For past archived files, please search for by keyword.

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