Contracts for March 31, 2006

CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense

No. 264-06 FOR RELEASE AT Mar 31, 2006 Media Contact: (703)697-5131 Public/Industry(703)428-0711

_CONTRACTS

_DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

AmeriQual Group, LLC, Evansville, Ind., * is being awarded a maximum $200,300,600 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for Meal Ready to Eat (MRE) and Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR). Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. There were 3 proposals solicited and 3 responded. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is December 31, 2006. The contracting activity is the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM3S1-06-D-Z103).

SOPAKCO Packaging, Mullins, S.C., is being awarded a maximum $182,811,400 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for MRE and HDR. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Federal civilian agencies. There were 3 proposals solicited and 3 responded. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Dec. 31, 2006. The contracting activity is the DSCP, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM3S1-06-D-Z104).

The Wornick Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, is being awarded a maximum $163,811,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for MRE and HDR. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Federal civilian agencies. There were 3 proposals solicited and 3 responded. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is Dec. 31, 2006. The contracting activity is the DSCP, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM3S1-06-D-Z105).

Wolverine World Wide, Rockford, Mich., is being awarded a maximum $6,837,360 firm fixed price contract for Navy for men's and women's dress leather shoes. Other locations of performance include Jonesboro, Ark., Big Rapids, Rockford, and Cedar Springs, Mich. This is an indefinite quantity/delivery type contract with base year and four 1-year options. Proposals were Web-solicited and 6 responded. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is March 31, 2007. The contracting activity is the DSCP, Philadelphia, Pa. (SPM100-06-D-0351).

_NAVY

L3 Communication Flight International Aviation LLC, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $41,843,207 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-02-D-3157) to exercise an option for airborne threat simulation capabilities to train shipboard and aircraft squadron weapon systems operators and aircrew on how to counter potential enemy electronic warfare and electronic attack operations in today's electronic combat environment. Work will be performed at Norfolk, Va. (45 percent); San Diego, Calif., (45 percent); and various locations located across the United States (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2007. 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.

Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $38,684,965 firm-fixed-price/cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-05-C-6324) for five AN/AQS-20A sonar mine detecting, Low-Rate Initial Production systems and associated engineering services. The mission of the AN/AQS-20A sonar mine detecting set is mine-hunting in direct organic support of the Carrier Strike Group and Expeditionary Strike Group through deployment on the Littoral Combat Ship. The system is a component of the organic airborne mine countermeasures system. It is the primary mine-hunting system being integrated into the Navy's MH-60S airborne mine countermeasures helicopters and LCS Flight 0. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, R.I. (88 percent), Tucson, Ariz. (12 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2010. 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.

Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded $22,850,000 for firm-fixed-price order 0007 against a basic ordering agreement (N00383-04-G-001H) for AN/APG-73 radar spares used on the F/A-18 aircraft. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif., and is expected to be completed by September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not awarded competitively. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity.

WareOneEarth Communications, Inc.,* North Charleston, S.C. is being awarded a $19,206,330 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, award term, performance based contract to provide high performance computer security support services to Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C. The contract includes one one-year option period, and eight one-year award term years which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the contract to an estimated $222,621,602. Work will be performed in Hampton Roads, Va., (60 percent); Charleston, S.C., (30 percent); Arlington, Va., (5 percent); and San Diego, Calif., (5 percent), and is expected to be completed by April 2007 (April 2016 with options). Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was competitively procured as a small business set-aside. The Request for Proposal was posted on the SPAWAR Systems Center E-commerce website, and one offer was received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (N65236-06-D-8847).

McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $14,443,866 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-05-C-0025) for non-recurring engineering services associated with, and the production of, 12 T-45 required avionics modernization program retrofit kits and two simulator avionics retrofit kits. In addition, this contract provides for technical data, integrated logistics support, and approximately 12 spare kit components. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. (77 percent); Mesa, Ariz. (15 percent) and Albuquerque, N.M. (8 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2009. 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.

T. B. Penick & Sons, Inc., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded $13,480,000 for firm-fixed price Task Order 0005 under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contract (N68711-02-D-8067) for design and construction of a parking structure at Naval Medical Center, San Diego. This is a design-build project to design and construct a new multi-level parking structure with reinforced concrete foundation and structure compliant with the current California seismic codes. Project includes demolition of the existing surface parking area "A" and relocation of underground utilities. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed by April 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with 20 proposals received and award made on July 12, 2002._ The total contract amount for each contractor is not to exceed $150,000,000 (base period and four option years) bringing the cumulative total for all six contracts to $900,000,000. The multiple contractors (six in number) may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the existing contract. Three proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.

Macro-Z-Technology*, Santa Ana, Calif., is being awarded a $9,883,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of an addition to the Joint Warfare Assessment Laboratory at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona. The two-story steel-framed modular structure addition will have level II security requirements throughout. This project will demolish existing Buildings 543, 522, 523, and 808. Work will be performed in Corona, Calif., and is expected to be completed by April 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with four proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N62473-06-C-5001).

GFS Group*, Hagatna, Guam, is being awarded an estimated $7,316,133 for Modification P00001 under a previously awarded combination firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity and time and material contract (N40192-05-D-9005) to exercise the first option period for housing operations and maintenance services for various naval installations in the Territory of Guam for the Commander, Naval Forces Marianas. The current total contract amount after exercise of this option will be $11,788,653. Work will be performed at various housing areas in the U. S. Territory of Guam, and the expected completion date is March 2007. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was competitively procured via the NAVFAC e-solicitation website with seven proposals received and award made on May 10, 2005. The potential total contract amount (base and option periods) is not to exceed $26,475,628. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Marianas, Guam, is the contracting activity.

Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $7,200,000 firm-fixed-price contract for performanced based logistics support for the Close-In Weapon System. Work will be performed in Louisville, K.Y., and is expected to be completed June 2006. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not awarded competitively. The Naval Inventory Control Point is the contracting activity (N00104-06-C-L008).

J5 Systems, Poway, Calif., is being awarded a $5,666,537 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for systems engineering, analysis, and support for current and future command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence systems and networks. This contract is one of six contracts awarded: all six awardees will compete for task orders during the ordering period. This one-year contract includes four one-year options, which, if exercised, will bring the potential, cumulative value of the contract to $30,779,921. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed March 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website and posting to the SPAWAR e-Commerce Central website, with nine offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-06-D-0074).

AAI Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of United Industrial Corp., Cockeysville, Md., is being awarded a $5,608,001 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 18 Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester (JSECST) units for the Navy (2), Air Force (5), Army (3), and the government of Canada (8); three laboratory JSECST units for the Air Force; and two JSECST spare part sets for the governments of Canada (1) and Switzerland (1). This contract combines purchases for Air Force FMS ($1,524,261; 27 percent); Army ($763,811; 14 percent); Navy ($509,207; 9 percent), Air Force ($509,207; 9 percent), and the Governments of Canada ($2,169,172; 39 percent) and Switzerland ($132,343; 2 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Cockeysville, Md., and is expected to be completed in September 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-06-C-0228).

Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $5,534,485 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for systems engineering, analysis, and support for current and future command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence systems and networks. This contract is one of six contracts awarded: all six awardees will compete for task orders during the ordering period. This one-year contract includes four one-year options, which, if exercised, will bring the potential, cumulative value of the contract to $29,486,182. Work will be performed in San Diego, Calif., and is expected to be completed March 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via publication on the Federal Business Opportunities website and posting to the SPAWAR e-Commerce Central website, with nine offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N66001-06-D-0073).

_AIR FORCE

Boeing Co., Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $25,246,752 firm fixed price & time and material contract to support the Minuteman Force Development Evaluation test flight program at Vandenberg Air Force Base. This support will consist of command destruct and telemetry of missile data during flight. Item procured at the Mod-7 instrumentation wafer, conduit support set, raceway cable set, interval time set, and engineering support, tools maintenance, vendor support, and studies. At this time, total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete January 2010. Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8204-06-C-0019).

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $22,385,455 firm fixed priced overhaul/repair contract to provide overhaul/repair of the main gearbox, elastomerticmertic main rotor hub and various component parts for the MJ-53 helicopter in support of Air Force Special Operations force requirements. At this time, no funds have been obligated. Headquarters 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., is the contracting activity (F09603-03-D-0034).

Boeing Co., Miraloma, Calif., is being awarded a $19,350,000 cost plus fixed fee contract. This action provides for procurement with continuing activities for program risk reduction and design maturation. This action supports the airborne and maritime/fixed station Joint Tactical Radio System. At this time, $3,945,068 has been obligated. This work will be complete October 2006. Headquarters Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting activity (FA8709-04-C-0010/P00013).

BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies, Burlington, Mass., is being awarded a $26,823,300 cost plus fixed fee contract. This contract will support the Joint Services SIAP architecture and demonstration support. Deliverable items are software and technical documentation. At this time, $2,859,799 has been obligated. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y., is the contracting activity (FA8750-06-C-0091).

Boeing Satellite Systems, Los Angeles, Calif., is being awarded a $7,830,920 firm fixed price contract modification. The government is exercising the ground segment option under the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) contract for two Gapfiller Satellite configuration control elements (GSCCEs), two initial sets of spares and on-site equipment training. The GSCCE provides payload control for all WGS Satellites. The price for each GSCCE, along with spares and training, was established in the initial WGS contract award. Both sets are scheduled for delivery not later than Dec. 31, 2007. Specific delivery locations have not been determined. At this time, total funds have been obligated. The completion date is December 2010. Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity (F04701-00-C-0011/P00118).

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