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No. 758-06
August 09, 2006


CONTRACTS

NAVY

Harris Corp., RF Communications Division, Rochester, N.Y.; is being awarded a $69,174,892 firm-fixed-price blanket purchase agreement order for the procurement of a multi-band multi-mission radio. Work will be performed in Rochester, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by October 25, 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured and two offers received via NECO. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-06-A-7001).

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., Seattle Division, Seattle Wash., is being awarded an estimated $10,949,272 award fee/performance fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-4152) to exercise an option for performance of the dry dock ship planned incremental availability of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). The aim of the contract is to provide year-around maintenance so as to maximize vessel readiness. The option will authorize the second major industrial dry docking availability of the contract, and entails modification and repair of shipboard equipment, hull and ship systems. Work will be performed in Bremerton, Wash., and is expected to be completed by March 2007. Contract will expire by the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command Puget Sound naval shipyard & intermediate maintenance facility, Bremerton, Wash., is the contracting activity.

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded $9,399,000 firm-fixed price task order 0006 under a previously awarded indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract (N62477-04-D-0032) for repair of Runway 02/20 at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Work will be performed in Quantico, Va., and is expected to be completed by January 2007. 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 17 proposals received and award made on July 22, 2004. The total contract amount is not to exceed $500,000,000, which includes the base period and four option years. The multiple contractors (seven 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, Washington, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.


Nordic Air Inc., Geneva, Ohio, is being award an $8,255,812 firm-fixed-price order under previously awarded contract (M67854-04-D-5008) for various environmental control units with associated manuals and technical data. This effort covers 136 one and a half ton units and 569 three ton units and 104 five ton units. All units are being purchased with contractor logistics support and warranty. Work will be performed in Geneva, Ohio, and is expected to be completed by May 2007. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This was a competitively awarded contract with eight proposals received. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems, Inc., Reston, Va., is being awarded an $8,036,730 cost-plus-award-fee modification under previously awarded contract (N00178-04-C-2006) to exercise an option for continuing engineering support for the development, installation, integration, maintenance and testing of combat system simulation and stimulation equipment for the Aegis program. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (72 percent) and the governments of Japan (16 percent); South Korea (7 percent); Spain (3 percent); and Norway (2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Dahlgren, Va. (65 percent); Mount Laurel, N.J. (20 percent); New Church, Va. (7 percent); San Diego, Calif. (5 percent); Arlington, Va., (3 percent); and is expected to be completed by September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $6,934,214 firm-fixed-price modification under previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-5460) for land based phalanx weapon system ancillary equipment. This modification is for ancillary equipment for Army land based Phalanx weapon system, which is the Phalanx close-in weapon system in the land-based configuration for the Army's counter-rocket, artillery, mortar program. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky., and is expected to be completed by April 2007. 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.

BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P., Armament Systems Division, Minneapolis, Minn., is being awarded a $6,267,357 firm-fixed-price contract for 57MM pre-fragmented, programmable proximity fuzed round, MK 295 MOD cartridges & 57MM MK 8 MOD clips. The 57MM 3P MK 295 MOD cartridge is ammunition to be used in combating aerial, surface, and ground targets. The 57MM MK 8 MOD clip connects two 57MM 3P MK 295 MOD cartridges together, in order to successfully fire the cartridges in accordance with the applicable gun systems operational requirements. Work will be performed in Karlskoga, Sweden (47.39 percent); Raufoss, Norway (44.95 percent); and Louisville, Ky. (1.04 percent), and is expected to be completed by September 2006. Contract funds in the amount of $3,062,987, will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity. (N00164-06-C-4246)

Tridea Works LLC*, Reston, Va., is being awarded an estimated $6,249,689 modification under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N65236-04-D-6845) for the Federal Bureau of Investigation support for communications assistance for law enforcement implementation services. Work will be performed in Chantilly, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2007 (September 2009 with options). Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract modification was awarded using other than full and open competition. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (Mod P00005).




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