You are correct there.. Although as the haliburton thing goes, from what I understand (most likely worng) they pick a contractor to do emergency work every year (in cases where the competitive bid process wouldn't work) and choose to go with them. Haliburton just got lucky and did what any GC with an open work ticket would do. To my understanding there are only 3 or 4 GC's in the world big enough to do this work.