MILITARY CONTRACTS June 24, 2008

ARMY

SHAW Environmental & Infrastructure, Inc., Alexandria, Va., was awarded on June 20, 2008, a $53,029,251 cost-plus award fee contract for base operations and support services for the directorate of public works and directorate of logistics. Work will be performed at Fort Rucker, Ala., and is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Oct. 24, 2007, and seven bids were received. Southern Regional Contracting Center, Installation Contracting Center, Fort McPherson, Ga., is the contracting activity (W911SE-08-C-0021).

Head, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, was awarded on June 20, 2008, a $12,695,353 firm-fixed price contract for demolition of airfields and replacement. Work will be performed at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., and is expected to be completed by May 20, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on Sept. 31, 2007, and ten bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile, Ala., is the contracting activity (W91278-08-C-0036).

Archer Western Contractors, LTD, Phoenix, Ariz., was awarded on June 23, 2008, a $9,000,000 firm-fixed price contract for the Tres Rios environmental restoration project flow regulating wetlands. Work will be performed in Tolleson, Maricopa County, Ariz., and is expected to be completed by Nov. 6, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Web bids were solicited on April 29, 2008, and six bids were received. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Calif., is the contracting activity (W912PL-08-C-0011).

Bell Aerospace Services, Inc., Ozark, Ala., was awarded on June 20, 2008, a $7,781,781 firm-fixed price contract for refurbishment of UH-1 aircraft for the Philippines. Work will be performed in Ozark, Ala., and is expected to be completed by Aug. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on July 10, 2007. U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-08-C-0139).


Telford Aviation Inc., Bangor, Maine, was awarded on June 23, 2008, a $7,395,486 time and materials contract for modification for the procurement of DeHavilland Dash-7 aircraft to be designated as the Multi-Sensor Airborne Reconnaissance Surveillance Systems. Work will be performed in Hagerstown, Md., and is expected to be completed by Jan. 31, 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One bid was solicited on May 29, 2008. CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-07-C-W009).

NAVY

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a not to exceed ceiling price $45,700,000 modification #0012 to a previously awarded contract (N00383-06-D-001J, order number 0004) for the purchase of initial spares in support of the E/A-18 G Growler. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and work will be completed July 2010. Contract funds will not expire before the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) in Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.

DRS EW & Network Systems, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., is being awarded a $6,909,165 fixed-price, time and materials contract for a Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS) for the DDG53, a land-based GEDMS trainer, EDMS hardware, and installation and checkout repair for the DDG53 GEDMS. The GEDMS is a shipboard network for DDG51 Class Destroyers. GEDMS is a ship wide data transfer network for a ship's machinery, steering, navigation, combat, alarm and indicating, and damage control systems. It was designed to replace the miles of point-to-point cabling, signal converters, junction boxes, and switchboards associated with conventional ship's cabling. This contract includes an option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $7,009,165. Work will be performed in Johnstown, Pa. (80 percent) and Buffalo, N.Y. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was procured on a limited competition basis with two proposals solicited and two offers received via the Federal Business Opportunities website. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity (N00178-08-C-2001).

Raytheon Systems Co.,McKinney, Texas, is being awarded a $6,055,004 firm-fixed-price contract for Multi-spectral Targets Systems (MTS). The MTS is a forward looking infrared system for the aircraft. The MTS provides real-time imagery selectable between infrared and day TV as well as a laser designation capability. Work will be performed in McKinney, Texas and is expected to be completed by September 2009. Contract funds in the amount of $6,055,004 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Crane, Ind., is the contracting activity (N00164-06-G-8555) (Job Order 0042).

AIR FORCE

L-3 Communications EO/ERs, Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for a maximum of $34,000,000. The contractor shall furnish the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Directed Energy Directorate with the necessary qualified personnel, materials facilities, supplies, and travel to provide and deliver airborne ISR imaging turrets of 20" diameter and 15" diameter, in accordance with the list of technical requirements below. The turrets will be compatible with Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) and Airborne Reconnaissance Low (PM AR-L) airborne turret systems installations, and meet the following Technical Requirements: (CLIN 0001) Qty 6 twenty-inch (20"); (CLIN 0002) Qty 10 Fifteen-inch (15") class airborne ISR turret system; (CLIN 0006). The contractor will propose maintenance for 3 of the 20" turrets, and for 5 of the 15" turrets. The contractor shall propose complete spare parts kits for these units as well, with turnaround repair times of 10 days between turret arrival at, and shipping from, the contractor's facilities. Or, alternately, a specific best timetable as established by currently available maintenance scheduling methods as practiced in their business; (CLIN 0003). The contractor will propose upgrades to the turrets requiring approximately 10,000 engineering and manufacturing hours, for the engineering and adding of the following technology areas; High Definition Television sensors, improved MWIR sensors, fiber optic or other high bandwidth slip-ring capabilities, larger or more versatile apertures for any classes of turrets the produce, SWIR and laser technology additions to sensor suites, and upgraded pointing, tracking, operator interfaces, turret stabilization, image processing and communications. At this time $3,135,000 has been obligated. Det 8 Air Force Research laboratory/PKDB, Directed Energy Contracts Division, Directorate of Contracting, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity (FA9451-08-D-0242).

International Business Machines Corp., of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., is being awarded a cost type contract for $2,390,799. The goal of the Wafer-Scale Graphene RF Nanoelectronics effort is to investigate two challenges that are fundamental to development of high performance carbon electronics for RF applications in military systems. At this time $2,390,799 has been obligated. AFRL/PKDA, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-08-C-7838).