Here’s Today’s Department of Defense Contract Awards

AIR FORCE

Datum Software, Inc., John Creeks, Ga. (FA8771-12-D-1001); Digital Management, Inc., Bethesda, Md. (FA8771-12-D-1002); Diligent Consulting, Inc., San Antonio, Texas (FA8771-12-D-1003); DSD Laboratories, Inc., Sudbury, Mass. (FA8771-12-D-1004); Diversified Technical Services, Inc., El Paso, Texas (FA8771-12-D-1005); Exeter Government Services, L.L.C., Gaithersburg, Md. (FA8771-12-D-1006); Excellus Solutions, L.L.C., McLean, Va. (FA8771-12-D-1007); IndraSoft, Reston, Va. (FA8771-12-D-1008); Segue Technologies, Arlington, Va. (FA8771-12-D-1009); SI Systems Technologies, Folsom, Calif. (FA8771-12-D-1010); Array Information Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, Md. (FA8771-12-D-1011); and ActioNet, Inc., Vienna, Va. (FA8771-12-D-1012) are being awarded a $960,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a vehicle for customers to access a wide range of services such as sustainment, migration, integration, training, help desk support, testing and operational support. The location of the performance is not known at this time and will be cited on individual task orders. Work is to be completed by Jan. 11, 2022. ESC/HIJK, Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex, Ala., is the contracting activity.

Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $106,364,282 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for modification to extend the deployment and operation of three Battlefield Airborne Communications Node payloads installed in Global Express BD-700 and three Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles.  The location of the performance is locations in and outside the United States where currently deployed.  Work is to be completed by June 22, 2013.  AFMC/ESC, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8726-09-C-0010 P00043).

Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $50,575,532 firm-fixed-price contract.  This modification to the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node contract is for eight months of E-11A Platform Maintenance support for aircraft 9355, 9358, and 9001.  The location of the performance is Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan.  Work is to be completed by Feb. 24, 2013.  AFMC/ESC, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8726-09-C-0010 P00053).

NAVY

Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $74,399,436 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-fee V-22 multi-year production contract (N00019-07-C-0001) to provide one additional CV-22 combat loss replacement aircraft for the Air Force.  Work will be performed in Philadelphia, Pa. (56 percent); Amarillo, Texas (43 percent); and El Paso, Texas (1 percent).  Work is expected to be completed in November 2014.  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.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $26,487,920 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for the development, production, and testing of five First Article Operation Test Program sets (OTPS) with accompanying technical data for weapons replaceable assemblies (WRAs) for the H-60 Aircraft.  The WRAs are part of the multi-mode radar sub-system with the automated radar periscope detection and discrimination (ARPDD) upgrade. The requirement also includes four sets of ARPDD assemblies as units under test to be used in the development and testing of the OTPSs.  Work will be performed in Owego, N.Y., and is expected to be completed in November 2016.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1).  The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-12-C-0155).

Northrop Grumman Guidance and Electronics Co., Inc., Navigation Systems Division, Woodland Hills, Calif., is being awarded an $11,494,975 firm-fixed-price production contract for the fabrication, testing and delivery of five interrogator sets AN/UPX-24(V) in an open systems architecture configuration in support of the Combat ID Identification Friend or Foe.  Each interrogator set consists of a control monitor C-10065/UPX-24(V) and a processor controller CP-1273/UPX-24(V).  Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif. (80 percent), and Woodland Hills, Calif. (20 percent), and is expected to be completed in March 2014.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1.  The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-12-C-0092).

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., Greenbelt, Md., is being awarded a $9,989,000 firm-fixed-price task order under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N40085-10-D-5330) for construction of a squad battle course at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune.  The construction of the 82-acre course will include grading, soil placement, a range control tower, combined facility, covered bleacher enclosure, covered mess enclosure, and ammunition breakdown enclosure, range layout and target emplacements.  Work shall also include a battle sight zero range, three power center emplacements, trench obstacles, a firing berm, three offense/defense facades, four limit markers, and a public address system.  Exterior improvements include gravel surfaces and roadways for parking, access, service vehicles, and staging area for drop off, as well as a vehicular access gate, a concrete pad for tank trail crossing on Route 172, and building utility (water, sanitary, septic, electrical, and telecommunication) systems.  Work also includes the installation of overhead electrical and direct buried data system infrastructure, and the installation of water supply infrastructure and sanitary sewer infrastructure.  The task order also contains two options, which, if exercised, would increase cumulative task order value to $10,192,500.  Work will be performed in Jacksonville, N.C., and is expected to be completed by May 2014.  Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Four proposals were received for this task order.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity.

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

VWR International, L.L.C., Radnor, Pa., was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM2DE-11-D-7343/P00003.  The award is a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $9,819,565 for purchase of laboratory supplies and wares.  Other locations of performance are California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Arizona.  Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies.  There were 50 responses to the Web solicitation.  Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012 Defense Working Capital Funds.  The date of performance completion is June 26, 2013.  The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.

Parker-Hannifan Corp., Irvine, Calif., was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract with a maximum $7,407,570 for engine starters.  There are no other locations of performance.  Using service is Army.  Type of appropriation is Army Working Capital Funds.  There was one proposal with one response.  The date of performance completion is March 1, 2014.  The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (SPRRA1-12-C-0033).