U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Contract

Contracts for June 30, 2006

CONTRACTS

NAVY

            Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded an $85,354,328 fixed-price letter contract for long-lead material items and critical work center efforts to support the production of three Aegis Weapon Systems (AWS) for the Commonwealth of Australia (COA) Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) Shipbuilding Program.  These long-lead items will be used by Lockheed Martin to manufacture three AWS ship-sets for Australia's AWD shipbuilding project.  The AWS comprises of the core command and control system, phased array radar and missile launch system capability.  The Aegis system is the world's pre-eminent maritime air warfare system capable of detecting and defeating multiple hostile aircraft and missiles.  Award of this contract will eliminate the risk and increased costs associated with a break in production and minimize the risk of delay in the 2013 delivery date for the first Air Warfare Destroyer.  This award is for Australia (100 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program.  $64,575,000 will be obligated at time of award.  Work will be performed in Moorestown, N.J., and is expected to be completed by March 2012.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-06-C-5120).

            McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded an $82,360,947 cost-plus-award-fee modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for the first production representative lot of airborne electronic attack (AEA) kits for the EA-18G aircraft.  This modification provides for the procurement of four AEA kits, spares, and support equipment.  Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (42.5 percent); Bethpage, N.Y. (28.2 percent); St. Louis, Mo. (18 percent); Fort Wayne, Ind. (4.8 percent); Nashua, N.H. (2 percent); Melbourne, Fla. (1.6 percent); Wallingford, Conn. (1.6 percent); and Westminster, Colo. (1.3 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2008.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

            Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va., is being awarded a $9,921,722 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to exercise an option for technical, engineering, professional and management support services for the special communications requirements division of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in support of the Department of Defense, Joint Service, and Federal Agencies programs.  Work will be performed in Lexington Park, Md. (50 percent); and St. Inigoes, Md. (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2007.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, St. Inigoes, Md., is the contracting activity.

            Kollmorgen Corporation, Electro-Optical Division, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a $9,363,494 firm-fixed-price modification under previously awarded contract to exercise an option for production of three major shore-spares for AN/BVS-1 photonics mast systems for installation on Virginia and SSGN class submarines.  The photonics mst is a non-hull penetrating electronic imaging subsystem of the command and control system.  It incorporates visible, infrared and electronic support measures sensors and stealth features that will provide new capabilities for attack submarines.  The subsystem is comprised of the sensor, mast, data transmission, and control/display groups.  Work will be performed in Northampton, Mass. (70 percent); Seattle, Wash. (8 percent); Westfield, Mass. (6 percent); Boston, Mass (6 percent); Joplin, Mo. (4 percent); Cincinnati, Ohio (2 percent); Orlando, Fla. (2 percent); Hackensack, N.J. (2 percent); and is expected to be completed by July 2009.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-02-C-6247).

            Rogers-Quinn Construction, Inc.*, Bonsall, Calif., is being awarded $8,256,000 for firm-fixed-price task order 0001 under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract for replacement, repair and/or improvement to 13 sewer lift stations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The goal of the project is to achieve environmental regulatory compliance by correcting safety, capacity, reliability, and operational deficiencies.  Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by February 2008.  Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The basic contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with 16 proposals received and an award made on Dec. 10, 2004.  The total contract amount for each contractor is not to exceed $100,000,000 (base period and four option years) bringing the cumulative total for all five contracts to $500,000,000.  The multiple contractors (five in number) may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the existing contract.  Four proposals were received for this task order.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

            Geofon, Inc.*, Diamond Bar, Calif., is being awarded $7,000,000 for task order 0005 under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity environmental multiple award contract for interim removal action installation restoration program site 19 at Naval Base Ventura County.  Work will be performed in Point Mugu, Calif., and is expected to be completed by December 2008.  Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The basic contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with 13 proposals received and an award made on Sept. 23, 2004.  The total contract amount for each contractor is not to exceed $60,000,000.  The multiple contractors (three in number) may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the existing contract.  Three proposals were received for this task order.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

            CDM Constructors, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif., is being awarded $5,267,484 for task order 0010 under a previously awarded firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity design-build-operate-maintain contract for replacement and/or upgrades to nine sewer lift stations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.  The goal of the project is to achieve environmental regulatory compliance by correcting safety, capacity, reliability, and operational deficiencies.  Work will be performed in Oceanside, Calif., and is expected to be completed by June 2008.  Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The basic contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with eight proposals received and an award made on July 8, 2004.  The total contract amount for the indefinite quantity portion of this contract is not to exceed $155,777,000 (base period and four option years) bringing the cumulative total for the total contract to $260,000,000.  The single contractor may compete on task orders under the terms and conditions of the existing contract.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

ARMY

            EADS North American Defense of Arlington, Va., was awarded June 30, 2006, a $43.1 million firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-level-of-effort, cost-reimbursable contract for the Light Utility Helicopter with MEDVAC B and hoist B kits along with pilot transition and maintainer training.  Work will be peformed in Columbus, Miss., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2016.  The Light Utility Helicopter is designed to conduct light-general support, civil search and rescue, personnel recovery, air ambulance medical evacuation, casualty evacuation, limited civil command and control operations in the conduct of homeland security, and counter-drug operations.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Bids were solicited July 26, 2005, and five bids were received.  The Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity.  For more information, call the program executive office, aviation, public affairs office at (256) 842-0561 (W58RGZ-06-C-0194).

            Raytheon Co., Andover, Mass., was awarded on June 26, 2006, a $7,656,228 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable contract for on-site depot level diagnostic, fault isolation, clean-up, and repair capability for the PATRIOT weapon system.  Work will be performed in Korea (19.14 percent), Germany (8.76 percent), Tacoma, Wash. (10.39 percent), Qatar (9.79 percent), Killeen, Texas (15.14 percent), Lawton, Okla. (7.05 percent), El Paso, Texas (17.88 percent), Fayetteville, N.C. (8.68 percent), and Andover, Mass. (3.17 percent), and is expected to be completed by June 16, 2010.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This was a sole source contract initiated on Dec. 15, 2005.  The Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W31P4Q-06-C-0352).

            Five-R Co.*, Cheyenne, Wyo., was awarded on June 28, 2006, a $6,311,368 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a composite airlift support complex.  Work will be performed in Cheyenne, Wyo., and is expected to be completed by July 9, 2007.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  There were 13 bids solicited on April 5, 2006, and five bids were received.  The Wyoming National Guard, Cheyenne, Wyo., is the contracting activity (W912L3-06-C-0009).

            General Electric, Lynn, Mass., was awarded on June 26, 2006, a delivery order amount of $5,285,800 as part of an $11,229,450 firm-fixed-price contract for exhaust pipes for the Blackhawk aircraft.  Work will be performed in Lynn, Mass., and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2011.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  There were two bids solicited on Feb. 28, 2006, and one bid was received.  The Army Aivaiton and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-06-D-0229).

AIR FORCE

            McDonnell Douglas Corp., St Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $27,976,648 firm-fixed-price with a cost-reimbursement contract modification.  This action provides for joint direct attack munition (JDAM), for an additional 1,288 lot 10 guided vehicle kits.  The JDAM weapon system provides the Air Force and the Navy with an improved aerial delivery capability for existing 500, 1000 and 2000-pound bombs.  The JDAM is a strap-on kit with inertial navigation system/global positioning system bombs.  At this time, total funds have been obligated.  Negotiations were complete in June 2006.  This work will be complete March 2008.  Headquarters 308^th Armament Systems Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (FA8681-06-C-0058/P00002).

            General Dynamics, Government Systems Corp., Needham, Mass., is being awarded a $21,919,000 cost-plus-award-fee, time and materials, and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.  This action provides for defense injection/reception emergency action message command and control terminal (DIRECT) improvement and sustainment contract (DISC), will include 1) contractor logistics support, 2) technical refresh, 3) special studies, 4) sustainment engineering analysis, 5) work requests, 6) installation of a production system currently in storage, and 7) communications interface changes, DIRECT, originally called the defense improved emergency message automated transmission system replacement command and control terminal, is an element of the minimum essential emergency communications network.  Direct provides the National Military Command Center /NMCC-Site R and the strategic nuclear combatant commander command centers with strategic connectively for dissemination of emergency action messages over all available communications channels, automated message transmission and reception processing capabilities, and communications systems growth and system expansion capability.  At this time, $300,678 has been obligated.  Solicitations began March 2006 and negotiations were complete in June 2006.  This work will be complete by June 2011.  Headquarters 653^rd Electronic Systems Wing, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8726-06-C-0018).

            Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, Colorado Springs, Colo., is being awarded a $8,012,141 cost-plus-award fee contract.  The contractor shall develop software and any theater battle management core systems applications required for spiral 1.1.4 related effort.  Software support includes all software development activities in accordance with TTD-05-10C and the statement of work.  At this time, total funds have been obligated.  Solicitations began December 2005.  This work will be complete by March 2008.  Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F19628-95-C-0143).

            Perkin-Elmer Inc., Optoelectronics, Salem, Mass., is being awarded a $6,638,115 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification.  This modification definitizes the undefinitized contract action for rubidium atomic frequency standard modification phase 2 for the replacement and/or redesign of the obsolete parts and implementation of low risk-high yield improvements for he subsequent flight re-qualification of the global positioning system block IIF rubidium atomic frequency standard.  At this time, no funds have been obligated.  This work will be complete by September 2008.  Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8807-05-C-0001).

            General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $5,210,170 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification.  This effort is for the retrofit of five MQ-9 Predator aircraft, with upgraded landing gear for increased landing capacity, Hellfire/EGBU-12/Special Project A Payloads, and interim modem assembly capabilities.  Also included in the cost of this effort is one lot of spares and system integration lab upgrade work.  At this time, total funds have been obligated.  Solicitations began April 2006 and negotiations were complete June 2006.  This work will be complete June 2007.  Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-02-G-4035/order # 0028, modification # 13).

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

            Oceanit Laboratories, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.  This competitive contract is to provide for the development of advanced sensor and surveillance technologies based on multi-target-tracking optical sensor array technologies.  The award value for this effort is $25,892,192 (maximum).  The period of performance is from June 2006 to June 2011.  The principal place of performance will be at the Oceanit Laboratories, Honolulu, Hawaii.  Work will also be performed at Goleta, Calif.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity (HQ0006-06-D-0003).

Defense Information Systems Agency

            Maden Technologies Consulting, Inc., Arlington, VA, is being awarded an initial contract not-to-exceed $5.6 million.  This is a letter contract which will, upon definitization, result in an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will include firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing structures with an estimated life-cycle value of $29 million for

services to include:  scientific, technical and operational support for development, integration, and transfer of advanced computer, telecommunications, and information technology research and development. The required services will be provided in a government-certified and accredited contractor-owned/contractor-operated sensitive compartmented information facility.

            The period of performance will be a base period of 12 months with four one-year option periods.  The initial award amount is not-to-exceed $5.6 million. The requirement was solicited as other than full and open competition pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), FAR

6.302-1(a)(2)(iii) to Maden Technologies Consulting, Inc., a small veteran-owned business.  Only one solicitation was mailed and only one offer was received.  The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity.

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