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FOR RELEASE AT
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No. 1034-06
October 16, 2006


CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Constellation New Energy, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $101,358,389 firm fixed price contract for electricity. Using services are Army, Navy, and Air Force. Other locations of performance are Dyess Air Force Base, Naval Station Ingleside, Fort Hood, Joint Reserve Base Navy Reserves, and Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas. There were 79 proposals solicited and 12 responded. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Jan. 1, 2009. Contracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-05-G-8043).

Gexa Energy, Houston, Texas, is being awarded a maximum $33,045,969 firm fixed price contract for electricity. Using services are Army, Navy, and Federal civilian agencies. Other locations of performance are Army Reserves Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Air Force Space Command, and Army/Air Force Exchange Service, Texas. There were 79 proposals solicited and 12 responded. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Jan. 1, 2009. Contracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. (SP0600-07-D-8000).

NAVY

Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Schenectady, N.Y., is being awarded a $44,777,000 cost-plus-fixed fee contract, for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Schenectady, N.Y. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. No work completion date or additional information is provided on naval nuclear propulsion program contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-07-C-2102).

Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $5,731,173 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under previously awarded contract N00024-06-C-2105, for engineering, technical, trade, and program management support of industrial work performed on behalf of operational, decommissioning, and submarines undergoing availabilities/conversion. This contract combines support of the Navy (99 percent) and the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (1 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed by September 2007. Contract funds in the amount of $2,521,716 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Corp., Ft Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $22,835,401 firm-fixed-price contract modification. This action provides for an extension to advanced buy period of performance and increases the obligation amount. At this time, total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete October 2009. Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8611-06-C-2899/P00006).

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