From: Edward L Ellegood [ellegooe@erau.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:35 AM
To: ERAU@space.com
Subject: Florida Defense Contracts Monitor - July 2009
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· Space Ground
Systems Solutions, Inc., Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $10,929,037
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Spacecraft
Engineering, Software Research, Development and Support for design,
development, test, launch and mission operations of Department of Defense
assets. This is a new requirement for highly-skilled personnel to
support the Navy space programs development, enhancement, testing and
configuration management of a collection of software, which is constantly
being enhanced to provide state of the art solutions to space applications.
This contract contains options, which if exercised, will bring the total
cumulative value of the contract to $57,978,456. Work will be performed
at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., and is expected to be
completed July 2010 (July 2014 with options exercised). Contract funds
in the amount of $152,500 will expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. This contract was competitively procured under Request for
Proposal (N000173-08-R-SER02), with two offer received. The Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. · Honeywell
International, Inc., Defense & Space Electronic Systems, Clearwater, Fla., was award a
$9,744,953 modified contract for 126 Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System
Production Units for the U.S. Army CH47F, P31 EGI +429 SAASM and AH64.
At this time, the entire amount has been obligated. 647 AESS/PK,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity. · Gyrocam Systems,
LLC, Sarasota, Fla.,
is being awarded a $10,700,000 firm-fixed-priced delivery order #0004 under
contract (M67854-07-D-5075) for sustainment to include normal wear and tear,
as well as catastrophic repair capabilities, training, spare parts needed to
produce the Expeditionary Fly Away Camera System with Field Service
Representative and trainer support and a block of spare parts. Work
will be performed outside the Continental U. S. supporting United States
Marine Gyrocam FlyAway Camera Systems, and the period of performance is
expected to be completed by July 31, 2010. Contract funds will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This delivery order was
sole sourced procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command,
Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity. · Scientific
Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a
maximum $200,000,000 fixed-price with economic price adjustment, prime vendor
contract for management of consumable items to be use at repair
facilities. Other locations of performance are in North Carolina, Florida
and California. Using service is Navy. There were originally
twelve proposals solicited with four responses. Contract funds will
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract
modification is for the second two-year option period. The date of
performance completion is September 30, 2011. The contracting activity
is the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa. · Alion Science and Technology
Corp.,
Chicago, Ill., is being awarded a $7,031,202 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for
the development of a prototype tool to improve live virtual and constructive
integration technologies suitable for military education, experimentation,
analysis, training, and mission rehearsal. Work will be performed in
Norfolk, Va., (70 percent) and Orlando, Fla., (30 percent), and is
expected to be completed in July 2012. Contract funds in the amount of
$93,500 will expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was
competitively procured through a Broad Agency Announcement; one offer was
received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division,
Orlando, Fla., is the contracting activity. · Northrop Grumman
Systems Corp.,
Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a $154,100,000 Undefinitized Contract Action
(UCA) for the upgrade of six Taiwan Air Force (TAF) E-2C aircraft from Group
II configuration to Hawkeye 2000 (H2K) export configuration under the Foreign
Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y. (40
percent); St. Augustine, Fla. (22 percent); Rolling Meadows, Ill. (6
percent); Dayton, Ohio (6 percent); Windsor Locks, Conn. (5 percent);
Greenlawn, N.Y. (4 percent); Mississauga, Canada (4 percent); Marlboro, Mass.
(4 percent); and other various locations throughout the United States (9
percent); and is expected to be completed in June 2013. Contract funds will
not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not
competitively procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. is
the contracting activity. · 3PSC LLC, Cape
Canaveral, Fla.,
is being awarded a $19,216,896 firm-fixed-price contract for the operation
and maintenance of six Military Sealift Command (MSC) oceanographic survey
ships worldwide. Six of MSC's seven oceanographic ships are
multipurpose and perform acoustic, biological, physical and geophysical
surveys, providing much of the U.S. military's information on the ocean
environment. These ships use multi-beam, wide-angle, precision sonar systems
that make it possible to continuously chart a broad section of ocean
floor. The seventh oceanographic survey ship collects data in coastal
regions around the world. The data collected helps improve technology
in undersea warfare, ship detection and charting the world's
coastlines. This contract includes options, including a seventh-vessel
option, four one-year options and five six-month award-term options, which if
exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $266,532,588. Work will
be performed worldwide, and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30,
2010. If all options are exercised, work is expected to be completed in
March 2017. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the MSC
website, with multiple proposals solicited and five offers received.
The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the
contracting activity. · Lockheed Martin
Corp.,
Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded a $9,997,065 cost plus fixed fee
contract for the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile demonstration program.
Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas (69 percent); West Palm
Beach, Fla. (12 percent); King of Prussia, Pa. (8 percent); Plymouth,
Minn. (8 percent); Baltimore, Md. (1 percent); Skokie, Ill. (2 percent), and
is expected to be completed in April 2010. Funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year. DARPA issued a solicitation in Federal
Business Opportunities on June 6, 2008, and nine proposals were received.
The contracting activity is DARPA, Arlington, Va. · Lockheed Martin
Maritime Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a
$92,801,701 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering services and
support of the AN/BVY-1 Integrated Submarine Imaging System (ISIS) and for
the production of 10 AN/BVY-1(V)1 integrated control and display
cabinets. Services will include design, development, testing, reverse
engineering, technology insertion/ refreshment, engineering services, field
engineering services, and system support. ISIS provides mission
critical, all weather, visual, and electronic search, digital image
management, indication, warning, and platform architecture interface
capabilities for attack submarine (nuclear propulsion) (SSN) - SSN688 (Los
Angeles class), SSN 21 (Sea Wolf class), submersible, ship, guided, nuclear
(SSGN Ohio class) and SSN 774 (Virginia class) submarines with potential for
ship, submersible, ballistic, nuclear (SSBN) (Trident class) and potentially
other submarines. ISIS rolls-up existing components and near term
capabilities, and provides a robust architecture for efficiently inserting
future capabilities as they become available, including items leveraged from
the SSN 774 (Virginia) class photonics program. Work will be performed
in Manassas, Va. (33 percent); Fairfax, Va. (33 percent); Cape Canaveral,
Fla. (9 percent); Waterford, Conn. (6 percent); Atlanta, Ga. (5 percent);
Arlington, Va. (4 percent); Northampton, Mass. (4 percent); Woodbridge, Va.
(3 percent); Johnstown, Pa. (2 percent); and Middletown, R.I. (1 percent),
and is expected to be completed by March 2011. Contract funds will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was
competitively procured based upon full and open competition, with three
proposals received via the Federal Business Opportunities website. The
Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity. · Logistic Services
International (LSI), Jacksonville, Fla., is being awarded a maximum $33,663,451
firm-fixed-price requirements contract for distributed learning content
developer who can evaluate, analyze, design, develop, revise, convert,
implement, manage and deliver effective electronic courseware and related
products on an individual delivery order basis. The contractor will
utilize shareable content object or other software development activities as
appropriate for the development of Web-delivered, asynchronous, self-paced
distance learning, including but not limited to interactive multimedia
instruction courseware and electronic performance support tools. The
contractor will develop multiple variants of learning modules, courses and
performance support tools that integrate into the existing Marine Corps
enterprise network and MarineNet Learning Management System (LMS)
environments. Work will be performed in Quantico, Va., and work is
expected to be completed July 2010 and with all options exercised July
2014. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This effort was competed as a full and open competition procurement, with 15
offers in response to the solicitation. The Marine Corps Systems
Command, Program Manager for Training Systems, Orlando, Fla., is the
contracting activity. · Blackbird
Technologies, Inc.,
Herndon, Va., is being awarded an $86,311,454
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for
tagging, tracking, and locating equipment for various customers. The
contract includes option periods which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative
value of the contract to an estimated $450,300,000. Work will be
performed in Tampa, Fla., (80 percent), OCONUS (10 percent), and other
CONUS (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2010. If
all options are exercised, work could continue until July 2014.
Contract funds in the amount of $6,300,000 will expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the
Federal Business Opportunities website and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Command E-commerce website, with an unlimited number of proposals solicited
and two offers received. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Atlantic, is the contracting activity. · GoveConnection, Inc., Rockville, MD
was awarded on July 13, 2009 a $ 7,810,002 firm-fixed-price contract for
labor, material, and services required providing a wide range of logistics
support services for the National Guard Bureau headquarters, 54 states and
territories, NASA SEWP IV contract. Work is to be performed in Montgomery,
Ala, Golden, Co, Starke, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Johnston, Iowa,
Indianapolis, Ind., Topeka, Kan., Pineville, L.A., Havre De Grace, Md.,
Augusta, Maine., Lansing, Mich., Little Falls, Minn., Helena, Mont., Raleigh,
NC, Devils Lake, N.D., Lincoln, Neb., Santa Fe, N.M., Oklahoma City, Okla.,
Salem, Ore., Annville, Pa., Columbia, S.C., Nashville, Tenn., Austin, Texas,
Draper, Utah, Tacoma, Wash., Camp Douglas, Wis., Buckhannon, W.V., and
Guernsey, Wyo.. The estimated completion date if July12, 2010. Fifteen bids
were solicited and five bids were received. National Guard Bureau, Arlington,
Va. is the contracting activity. · Elite Aerospace,
Hollywood, Fla.,
was awarded a $7,000,000 contract to provide a maximum quantity of 250
secondary heat exchangers in support of the F-15 aircraft. At this time
all the funds have been obligated. 848th CBSG, Tinker Air Force Base, is the
contracting activity. · Universal
Understanding, Jacksonville, Fla., was awarded a $6,867,119 contract to
exercise an option for continuation of SMARTnet II Network optimization and
software support for the United States Air Forces Central. At this time
all the funds have been obligated. 20th Contracting Squadron, Shaw Air
Force Base is the contracting activity. · General Dynamics –
Ordnance and Tactical Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded
a $10,448,480 modification to previously awarded contract (M67854-05-D-6014)
for an additional 40 full rate production internally transportable vehicles
(ITV) together with their corresponding basic issue item kits and additional
authorization list hardware. The ITV is a USMC program to field an
expeditionary vehicle supporting over-the-horizon amphibious operations,
irregular warfare and enhanced company operations. Work will be
performed in Robbins, N.C. (42 percent, Vehicle Assembly); Forest, Va. (30
percent, Fabrication-unibodies, etc); Columbus, Ohio (17 percent, Armor and
Blast attenuation seats); and St Petersburg, Fla. (11 percent,
Powerpack Integration), and work is expected to be completed by Nov. 30,
2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA, is the
contracting activity. · UnitedHealth
Military & Veterans Services, Minnetonka, Minn., is being awarded a
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide managed care support (MCS) to the
Department of Defense TRICARE program. The instant award will comprise
a base period plus one option period for $3,729,016,358. The total
potential contract value, including the 10-month base period (transition-in)
and five one-year option periods for health care delivery, plus a
transition-out period, is estimated at $21,827,600,469. The MCS
contractor will assist the military health system in operating an integrated
health care delivery system combining resources of the contractor and the
military’s direct medical care system to provide health, medical and
administrative support services to eligible beneficiaries in the South
Region. The South Region includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky (the Fort Campbell area only), Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas (excluding areas of Western
Texas). The South Region contractor will be responsible for
administering and complying with all Continued Health Care Benefit Program
requirements in all geographic areas. The work to be performed includes
management of provider networks and referrals, medical management,
enrollment, claims processing, customer service and access to data, among other
requirements, while providing beneficiary satisfaction at the highest level
possible through the delivery of world-class health care. This contract
was competitively procured via the TRICARE Management Activity e-solicitation
Web site with three offers received. The TRICARE Management Activity,
Aurora, Colo., is the contracting activity. · International Oil
Trading Co., Boca Raton, Fla., is being awarded a maximum
$1,011,173,965 fixed price with economic price adjustment, requirements type
contract, for JP8 turbine fuel, diesel fuel, and motor gasoline. Other
locations of performance are Al Asad Air Base, Victory Base Camp, and Trebil
and Korean Village, Iraq. Using service is the Defense Energy Support
Center. The original proposal was Web solicited with six responses.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The date of performance completion is December 31, 2011. The
contracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, Fort Belvoir, Va. · General Dynamics –
Ordnance and Tactical Systems, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded
a $20,756,123 firm-fixed-price delivery order #0021 under previously awarded
contract M67854-05-D-6014, for the procurement of 20 full rate production
expeditionary fire support systems (EFSS) together with their corresponding
basic issue item kits, additional authorization list hardware and mortar
weapon spares. The EFSS provides all-weather, ground-based, close supporting,
accurate, immediately responsive, and lethal indirect fires. The EFSS is
defined as a launcher, mobility platform (prime mover), ammunition (not
included in this order), ammunition supply vehicle, and technical fire
direction equipment necessary for orienting the weapon on to an azimuth of fire
and accurately computing firing data. Work will be performed in St. Aubin,
France (29 percent); Robbins, N.C. (10 percent); and Forest, Va. (7 percent),
and work is expected to be completed by Dec. 30, 2010. Contract funds will
not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The basic contract was
competitively procured. The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is
the contracting activity. · General Dynamics
Advanced Information Systems, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a
$10,234,993 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for engineering services in
support of the AN/BYG-1 Weapons Control System. The 117,000 engineering
service hours will be used to migrate the AN/BYG-1 weapons control system
from a technology insertion (TI-08) baseline to a TI-10 baseline and
integrate advanced processing build (APB-09) and deliver this capability in
multiple variants to multiple submarine platforms. Work will be performed in
Fairfax, Va., (53.6 percent); Cape Canaveral, Fla., (17.6 percent);
Roswell, Ga., (12.5 percent); Middletown, R.I., (7.7 percent); McLean, Va.,
(2.6 percent); Hampton, Va., (4.6 percent); Greensboro, N.C., (1.2 percent);
Arlington, Va., (.05 percent); Fairfax Station, Va., (.06 percent); and
Waterford, Conn., (.09 percent), and is expected to be completed by July
2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured via Federal Business Opportunities,
with three offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy
Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity. · Sauer Inc.,
Jacksonville, Fla.,
is being awarded $7,021,100 for firm-fixed price task order #0004 under a
previously awarded multiple award construction contract for the design and construction to expand and renovate three
facilities at Stennis Space Center, Miss. The work to be
performed provides for the design and construction for renovation and
expansion of building 3205 and a new stand alone Buoy Blast & Paint
Facility for the National Data Buoy Center, a tenant organization of the
Space Center. The task order also contains one unexercised option,
which if exercised would increase the cumulative task order value to
$8,999,800. Work will be performed at Stennis Space Center, Miss., and
is expected to be completed by January 2011. 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,
Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity. · The Lockheed Martin
Space Systems Co.,
Strategic Missile Programs, Sunnyvale, Calif., is being awarded a $13,843,373
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide the nuclear weapons security (NWS)
equipment installation and maintenance and training services for various NWS
projects. Work will be performed in Sunnyvale, Calif., (54 percent);
Pittsfield, Mass., (19 percent); Denver, Colo., (2 percent); St. Marys, Ga.,
(8 percent); Cocoa Beach, Fla., (8 percent); Silverdale, Wash., (8
percent); New York, N.Y., (1 percent), and work is expected to be completed
Sept. 30, 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $1,801,239 will expire
at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not
competitively procured. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs,
Arlington, Va., is the contracting agency. · Clark Construction
Group, LLC Tampa, Fla. was awarded on June 30, 2009 a $61,068,000
form-fixed-contract for a new 4-story, 257,000 square foot building.
The facility will utilize pile and reinforced concrete foundations, steel
frame with insulated pre-cast concrete panels, metal decking, standing seam
mental roof, raised access flooring throughout, laminated force protection
glass, elevators, underground utilities, parking, landscaping, exterior
walkways, paving, large entrance plaza, security fencing, backup generator
power, uninterruptible power supply system, telecommunication wiring
infrastructure, and audio visual infrastructure. Work is to be
performed in Macdill Air Force Base, Fla., with an estimated
completion date of June 24, 2013. Bids were solicited using Fed Bid
Opps with sixteen bids received. Corps of Engineers-Mobile Regional
Contracting Center, Mobile, Ala., is the contracting activity. · Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Co.,
Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $441,938,182 modification to definitize
the previously awarded Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Air System Low Rate Initial
Production Lot III advance acquisition contract (N00019-08-C-0028) to a
cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee contract. In addition, this
modification provides for common and unique performance based logistics
support and hardware for the sustainment of seven U.S. Air Force and one
Government of the Netherlands Conventional Take-Off and Landing aircraft;
seven U.S. Marine Corps and two United Kingdom (UK) Short Take-Off
Vertical-Landing aircraft; material necessary to support activation of JSF
bases; two Aircraft Systems Maintenance Trainers; one Weapons Loader Trainer;
two Full Mission Simulators; one USMC and one UK Deployable Mission Rehearsal
Trainer; sixteen LM-STAR avionics test stations; hardware and software for
the Integrated Training Center; CVN Autonomic Logistics Information System
(ALIS) shipboard certification and deployment; ALIS depot trade study; and
associated technical and financial data. Work will be performed in Orlando,
Fla. (42 percent); Fort Worth, Texas, (37 percent); El Segundo, Calif.,
(9 percent); Warton, United Kingdom, (4 percent); Nashua, N.H. (2 percent);
Baltimore, Md., (1.5 percent); Cleveland, Ohio, (1.2 percent); Cheltenham,
United Kingdom (1.2 percent); Rolling Meadows, Ill., (1.1 percent) and San
Diego, Calif., (1 percent), and is expected to be completed in December
2011. 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. · DCK North America,
LLC,
Large, Pa., is being awarded a $37,937,937 firm-fixed-price contract for the
design and construction of an Operational Training Facility for Multi-Mission
Aircraft (MMA/P-8A) at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. The work
to be performed provides for a facility that includes space for 10
Operational Flight Trainers (OFT), eight Weapons Tactics Trainers, four Part
Task Trainers, support equipment, bridge cranes over the OFT devices,
computer based training stations, internal and external network communication
equipment, training media storage, maintenance support shops, administrative
offices, student study rooms, briefing areas, communications closets, and
Secure Compartmented Information Facilities. Work will be performed in Jacksonville,
Fla., and is expected to be completed by June 2011. Contract funds
will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract
was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website,
with 21 proposals received in Phase I and seven Phase I offerors selected to
proceed to Phase II. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity. |
Edward Ellegood
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
321-698-9101 (mobile)