WASHINGTON (Jan. 16, 2014)—The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.
Affordable Engineering Services, LLC, Totowa, N.J., is being awarded a $20,832,874 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to procure support services for the air vehicle modification and instrumentation efforts, to include designing, developing, building, installing, testing and evaluating, calibrating, modifying, operating and maintaining instrumentation on aircraft and engines for the Navy and other Government and commercial customers. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Md. (95 percent), China Lake, Calif. (2.5 percent), and Point Mogu, Calif. (2.5 percent), and is expected to be completed in February 2018. Fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation – Navy contract funds in the amount of $7,000,000 are being obligated on this award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; five offers were received. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00421-14-C-0007).
Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded $26,682,561 for cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable delivery order 0067 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-12-G-0006) in support of the V-22 aircraft. This order provides for on-site flight test management, flight test engineering, design engineering, and related efforts for the Naval Rotary Wing Aircraft Test Squadron. Work will be performed at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. (53 percent); Philadelphia, Pa. (32 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in December 2014. Fiscal 2013 aircraft procurement and fiscal 2014 research, development, test and evaluation, Navy funds in the amount of $26,682,561 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $13,556,862 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-10-C-0020) to provide 17,226 engine flight hours in support of the MV-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Oakland, Calif. (70 percent) and Indianapolis, Ind. (30 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2013. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance, Navy funds in the amount of $13,556,862 are being obligated on this award, all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.