A joint-venture bidder from Gig Harbor has won a $25.6 million contract to build a military pier at Ediz Hook that will jut into Port Angeles Harbor, making submarine escort vessels visible from the city’s shoreline.

The bid was awarded less than a week after release of the final environmental assessment of the project, which found no significant impacts would result from the pier and its support facilities, the Peninsula Daily News reported last week.

Watts-Orion Joint Venture of Gig Harbor will construct the pile-supported approach trestle and pier at U.S. Coast Guard Station/Sector Field Office Port Angeles, according to the bid award issued Aug. 30 by Naval Facilities Engineering Command of Silverdale.

Construction will begin by the end of October, a company representative said Aug. 31.