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DoD Contracts: Golden Manufacturing Company Inc. Awarded $36M for Permethrin Army Combat Uniforms
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Golden Manufacturing Company Inc.,* Golden, Mississippi, has been awarded a maximum $36,716,648 modification (P00104) exercising the first option period on a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-13-D-1063) with four one-year option periods. This is a firm-fixed-price contract for various types of Permethrin Army combat uniform coats. Locations of performance are Mississippi and Georgia, with an Aug. 14, 2015, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Puerto Rico Apparel Manufacturing Corp.(PRAMA),* Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, has been awarded a maximum $15,938,573 modification (P00104) exercising the first option period on a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-13-D-1065) with four one-year option periods. This is a firm-fixed-price contract for various types of Permethrin Army combat uniform coats. Locations of performance are Puerto Rico and Mississippi, with an Aug. 14, 2015, performance completion date. Using service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CORRECTION: The contract announced on Aug. 5, 2014, for Parker Hannifin Corp., Irvine, California (SPE4AX-14-D-9413), for a $238,050,000 firm-fixed-price contract in support of multiple aviation weapon systems, was announced with an incorrect award date. The correct award date is Aug. 11, 2014.
DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY
Quanterion Solutions Inc.,* Utica, New York, is being awarded a $25,370,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide services for the operations of the Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC), located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the support office at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Services include conducting analytical activities, preserving and expanding the knowledge base, providing research related to DTRA mission areas, conducting outreach to the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive community on combating weapons of mass destruction topics, and maintaining the information technology readiness and innovation potential to further advance information sharing. The DTRIAC manages a vast collection of unclassified and classified knowledge bases. The DTRIAC acquires digests, analyzes, evaluates, synthesizes stores, publishes, and disseminates scientific and technical information related to all DTRA mission areas. This procurement was posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website and five offers were received. Funding and work location will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 11, 2019.Work will be performed at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Utica, New York. The contracting activity is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia (HDTRA1-14-D-0009).
ARMY
Fraser Volpe*, Warminster, Pennsylvania, was awarded a $16,000,000 modification (P00003) to contract W15QKN-13-D-0041 to acquire 1,306 M25E1 stabilized binoculars. Funding and work location will be determined with each order. Estimated completion date is Feb. 26, 2018. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.
NI Industries Inc., Rock Island, Illinois, was awarded a $6,711,000 firm-fixed-price contract for ammunition cartridge case manufacturing intellectual property, tooling, gages, miscellaneous inventory items and cartridge cases. Work will be performed in Rock Island, Illinois, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 31, 2014. One bid was solicited with one received. Fiscal 2014 other procurement funds in the amount of $6,711,000 are being obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is the contracting activity
(W52P1J-14-C-0059). (NOTE: This contract was awarded on July 31, 2014; it was not announced until now due to extenuating circumstances.)
NAVY
Watts Constructors, LLC, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded $14,500,000 for firm-fixed-price task order 0010 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N44255-10-D-5021) to construct a railcar complex at Dry Dock Five, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. The work to be performed provides for all labor, materials and equipment to demolish existing structures, utilities, and paving; construction of a concrete foundation slab supported on drilled shafts and includes replacement/redirection of existing utilities, re-grading/paving around the foundation slab; construction of the Dry Dock Five railcar complex which includes two railcar enclosures, one storage enclosure, three weather enclosures, two stair towers, one vent platform and one vent skid roof. This is a design-bid-build contract. Work will be performed in Bremerton, Washington, and is expected to be completed by October 2015. Fiscal 2013 other procurement (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $14,500,000 are being obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Two proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Bremerton, Washington, is the contracting activity.
United States Technologies Inc.*, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, is being awarded a $13,825,350 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure up to 5,270 of the various types of AN/ULQ-21technique control modulator circuit card assemblies in support of the Airborne Threat Simulation Organization (ATSO). ATSO develops, integrates, and operationally supports countermeasures and emitter threat simulation systems. Work will be performed in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and is expected to be completed in August 2019. Fiscal 2014 weapons procurement (Navy); fiscal 2013 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force and Navy); and fiscal 2013 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $109,935 are being obligated at time of award, $19,960 of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via 100 percent Small Business set-aside electronic request for proposals; two offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, is the contracting activity (N68936-14-D-0023).
