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Honolulu — Contracts beside Donors

Two public ledgers set side by side: who the City & County of Honolulu (and the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit) pays to build, and who funds the Honolulu City Council that approves the budgets. Where the same name appears in both, it is placed here as a question — never an accusation.

Sources: HANDS contract awards (Hawaiʻi awards feed) filtered to Honolulu jurisdictions × Hawaiʻi Campaign Spending Commission donors (hicscdata.hawaii.gov jexd-xbcg, office = “Honolulu Council”). Amounts cleaned/cast in Python. A $500,000,000+ single award (the HART rail line) is shown separately as a megacontract, not blended into the vendor ranking. Matching is on entity name with generic tokens stoplisted — treat every pair as a lead to verify in the full record.

Honolulu’s largest contract vendors

awarded#vendor · jurisdiction

$79,998,2042NAN, INC. · City and County of Honolulu

$72,160,1441HMS CONSTRUCTION, INC. · Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit

$33,990,4321APB CONSTRUCTION CORP. · City and County of Honolulu

$32,781,3302INDEX BUILDERS, INC. · City and County of Honolulu

$27,114,6942UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICE, LP · City and County of Honolulu

$24,978,4434ROAD BUILDERS CORPORATION · City and County of Honolulu

$23,579,0001HAWAIIAN DREDGING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. · City and County of Honolulu

$23,353,87714PAUL'S ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING LLC · City and County of Honolulu

$22,795,9002RALPH S. INOUYE CO., LTD. · City and County of Honolulu

$19,924,2121KIEWIT INFRASTRUCTURE WEST CO. · City and County of Honolulu

$17,121,4484PROMETHEUS CONSTRUCTION · City and County of Honolulu

$16,857,9047KAIKOR CONSTRUCTION GROUP, INC. · City and County of Honolulu

$16,195,9741HDR ENGINEERING, INC. · Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit

$15,284,7525M E I CORPORATION · City and County of Honolulu

$13,261,6052HUGHES FIRE EQUIPMENT INC. · City and County of Honolulu

Megacontract shown separately: TUTOR PERINI CORPORATION $1,659,750,000 (City Center Guideway and Stations Design-Build Contract Part).

The pairs to read together

vendor–donor name overlaps

$29,392,659

awards in those pairs

$5,250

donations to the Council

5,599x

aggregate leverage

A small donation beside a large award is the pair that asks the loudest question: does the contract answer the public, or the contribution? Sorted by leverage.

9,817xFIRST HAWAIIAN BANK — $12,271,212 in Honolulu awards (1) / $1,250 to Menor, Ron, Fukunaga, Carol, Manahan, Joey. Does FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK's $12,271,212 in Honolulu government awards answer the public, or the $1,250 given to Menor, Ron, Fukunaga, Carol, Manahan, Joey who sit on the Council? (public records — a correlation to verify, not a finding)

4,280xPROMETHEUS CONSTRUCTION — $17,121,448 in Honolulu awards (4) / $4,000 to Kiaaina, Esther. Does PROMETHEUS CONSTRUCTION's $17,121,448 in Honolulu government awards answer the public, or the $4,000 given to Kiaaina, Esther who sit on the Council? (public records — a correlation to verify, not a finding)

An honest, narrow result. Of 184 cleaned Honolulu vendors set against 4,467 Council donors, only 2 names match in both ledgers. That narrowness is itself a finding: most Honolulu contractors do not appear as Council donors in this dataset — and the biggest gap is structural. The HART rail megacontract and most large builders sit outside the Council-donor list, and subcontractor and sole-source detail is not in open data at all. The two clean pairs above are leads to verify, not verdicts.

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