WASHINGTON (August 20, 2011)—The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.
BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Louisville, Ky., is being awarded a $13,502,273 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order to previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-07-G-5438) for two MK 45 Mod 2 gun mount upgrades. The technical instruction is to inspect and verify the configuration of MK 45 Mod 2/4 gun compatibility kits. The contractor shall provide material and services required to overhaul and upgrade the gun mount to the MK 45 Mod 4 Baseline "E" configuration. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (80 percent), and Minneapolis, Minn. (20 percent), and is expected to complete by September 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity.
BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Louisville, Ky., is being awarded a $6,755,696 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order to previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-07-G-5438) for material and services required to inventory, verify configuration, re-manufacture and convert, perform ordnance alteration and upgrade, inspect, test and prepare for shipment the components and major assemblies for a MK 45 gun mount. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (80 percent), and Minneapolis, Minn. (20 percent), and is expected to complete by February 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md., is the contracting activity.
Harris Corp., Government Communications Systems Division, Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded an $8,095,188 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-10-D-0050) for the full rate production and support of 125 digital map computers for the Navy (67); and the governments of Kuwait (43), Malaysia (10), and Finland (five). In addition, this modification provides for the procurement of 49 digital video map computers for the U.S. Navy; and 52 extension housings for the governments of Kuwait (43), and Malaysia (nine), in support of multiple aircraft platforms. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and is expected to be completed in June 2013. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This modification combines purchases for the U.S. Navy ($5,701,650; 70.4 percent); and, under the Foreign Military Sales Program, the governments of Kuwait ($1,776,717; 22 percent), Malaysia ($412,696; 5.1 percent), and Finland ($204,125; 2.5 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $135,000,000 cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price contract for the engineering, manufacturing, and development of the F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track System, a long-wave infrared detection system that targets airborne vehicles in a radar-denied environment. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo. (57 percent); Orlando, Fla. (35 percent); Santa Ana, Calif. (4 percent); and Irvine, Calif. (4 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2015. 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 (N00019-11-C-0036).
NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corp., Warminster, Pa., is being awarded an $84,702,930 firm-fixed-priced, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research project under Topics N92-170, entitled "Laser Detection & Ranging Identification Demonstration," and N94-178, entitled "Air Deployable Expendable Multi-parameter Environmental Probe." This Phase III award provides for the production, validation, and delivery of the Gondola avionic sensor packages for the Army. In addition, this contract provides for field service representative support; delivery, installation, operation, and maintenance of hardware; continued testing; engineering services; modeling, simulation, analysis; systems engineering and integration in support of the Persistent Ground Surveillance Program. Work will be performed in Afghanistan (75 percent); Elizabeth City, N.C. (20 percent); Patuxent River, Md. (3 percent); and Warminster, Pa. (2 percent). Work is expected to be completed in August 2014. Contract funds in the amount of $60,000,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This Phase III contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-5. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity (N68335-11-C-0214).