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Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a $34,111,626 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2300) to exercise options for special studies, analyses, review and Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class services. Lockheed Martin will assess engineering and production challenges and evaluate the cost and schedule risks from affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be performed in Hampton, Va. (31 percent); Marinette, Wis. (25 percent); Washington, D.C. (24 percent); and Moorestown, N.J. (20 percent). Work is expected to be complete by March 2012. 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.
L-3 Communications Systems Field Support, Vertex Aerospace, LLC, Madison Miss., was awarded on March 14 a $25,607,255 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract for aircraft maintenance and logistical life cycle support for 65 Navy C-12 aircraft at 21 global locations. Services to be provided include: scheduled/unscheduled organizational maintenance; aircraft servicing; depot level maintenance; support equipment maintenance; modifications; and engineering support. Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (12 percent), Lincoln, Neb. (34 percent), Winnipeg, Canada (34 percent), and various locations both inside and outside the continental United States (20 percent) including: Naval Air Facility (NAF) Andrews, Md.; Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, S.C.; Joint Reserve Base (JRB) Belle Chase, La.; JRB Fort Worth, Texas; Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Fla.; MCAS Miramar, Calif.; MCAS New River, N.C.; NAS Norfolk, Va.; NAS North Island, Calif.; NAS Patuxent River, Md.; Marine Corp Air Facility (MCAF) Quantico, Va.; JRB Willow Grove, Pa.; MCAS Yuma, Ariz.; Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), Md.; Edwards AFB, Calif.; Elmendorf AFB, Alaska; and Holloman AFB, N.M. Work is expected to be completed in September 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; two offers were received. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-D-0010).
Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $19,665,646 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to exercise options for special studies, analyses, review and class- service efforts for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Austal USA will assess engineering and production challenges and evaluate the cost and schedule risks from affordability efforts to reduce LCS acquisition and lifecycle costs. Work will be performed in Mobile, Ala. (83 percent), and Pittsfield, Mass. (17 percent). Work is expected to be completed by March 2012. 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, Ground Systems Division, York, Pa., is being awarded a $10,820,479 firm-fixed-priced modification to delivery order #0011 under a previously awarded contract (M67854-07-D-5025) for Skydex flooring, U.S. Special Operations Command armored utility vehicle roof padding, and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle field service representatives and instructors. Work will be performed in York, Pa., and is expected to be completed by December 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Patton Harris Rust Associates, Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a maximum amount $7,500,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract for miscellaneous civil/structural design and engineering services with associated multi-disciplinal architectural/engineering support services. Work will be associated with repairs, renovations, alterations, new construction of facilities and site improvements. Task order #0001 is being awarded at $453,118 for demolition of Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Building 25 at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Arlington, Va. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by June 2011. All work on this contract will be performed at various locations in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Washington region (Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.), and is expected to be completed by March 2016. Contract funds for task order #0001 will expire at the end of this current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 25 proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N40080-11-D-0496).
Ocean Systems Engineering Corp., Oceanside, Calif., is being awarded $7,400,975 for task order #0083 under previously awarded contract (M67854-02-A-9020). The scope of this effort is to provide financial management, systems engineering, acquisition and programmatic, life cycle logistics analysis and technical support, and task management and administrative support to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) command and control (C2) systems (MC2S) program management office and the Digital Fires and Situational Awareness (DFSA) program management office of Product Group 11, Marine Corps Systems Command . This performance work statement (PWS) includes MAGTF C2 situational awareness; joint tactical common operational picture workstation; global command and control system-tactical combat operations system; command operations center; joint combat target identification-ground; and science and technology efforts under the MC2S program management office. This PWS also includes advanced field artillery tactical data system, target location, designation and hand-off system, joint battle command platform, and the Blue Force Tracker family of systems programs under the DFSA program management office. Programs require support through all phases of the acquisition cycle. Work will be performed in Quantico, Va., and is expected to be completed in March 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $4,149,319 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Marine Corps System Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
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