U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards: 10-15-08

           Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., is being awarded a $200,532,975 cost plus fixed fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-2100) for Naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Pittsburgh, Pa., (97 percent) and Schenectady, N.Y., (3 percent). No contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  No completion date or additional information is provided on Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts.
The Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity.
 
KAPL Inc., (Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory), Schenectady, N.Y., is being awarded a $62,242,000 cost plus fixed fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-00-C-4011) for Naval nuclear propulsion work during fiscal year 2009. Work will be performed in Schenectady, N.Y. Funding in the amount of $39,114,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured. This action represents funding of the contract’s ninth year of performance.
No completion date or other additional information is provided regarding Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the Contracting Activity.
 
         Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $39,100,000 not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded cost plus award fee contract (N00019-02-C-3002).  This modification requires Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., to incorporate operating system changes into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter design. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif., (80 percent); Baltimore, Md., (7 percent); Nashua, N.H., (7 percent); Eagan, Minn., (3 percent); and Ft. Worth, Texas, (3 percent), and is expected to be completed in Oct. 2013. Contract funds in the amount of $16,250,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.      

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            ITT Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., was awarded Oct. 11, 2008, a
$25,862,042 firm fixed price contract. This requirement is necessary to expand the Command & Control (C2) capability for Iraqi signal platoons and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance battalions. Work will be performed in Fort Wayne, Ind., with an estimated and completion date of Jul. 31, 2009. One bid was solicited and one bid was received. Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan, Baghdad, Iraq, is the contracting activity (W91GY0-09-C-0001).
 
Correction: L-3 Communications, Linkabit Division, San Diego, Calif., was awarded Sept. 30, 2008, a $16,546,100 cost plus fixed price contract for a fourteen-month period of performance to provide technology refresh for the Prophet Block III Spiral I Sensor Vehicle with Satellite Communications on the Move capabilities.  Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., Melbourne, Fla., Scottsdale, Ariz., Austin, Texas, and Aberdeen, Md., with estimated and completion date of Dec. 1, 2010.  Bids solicited were via IBOP and three bids were received. CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (DAAB07-01-C-L539).
 
Correction: SRC TEC, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y., was awarded Sept. 30, 2008, a $6,601,860 fixed price contract.  This is a sole source acquisition for the SR Hawk Mobile Radar ground surveillance systems.  Work will be performed in Syracuse, N.Y., and Tunisia, with estimated completion date Sept. 30, 2009.  CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, N.J., is the contracting activity (W15P7T-08-C-D295).