Knik to Pave Perimeter Road at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Related Stories: Americas - Other, Bases & Infrastructure, Contracts - Awards, Other Corporation, Support Functions - Other
Naval Base Guantanamo Bay
(click to view full)
Knik Construction Co. in Seattle, WA received a $30 million firm-fixed-price task order (#0012) under an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity paving and resurfacing construction contract for paving of the perimeter road at US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Founded in 1903, US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay is the oldest US base overseas. Located on the southeast corner of Cuba, in the Oriente Province, the base is about 400 air miles from Miami, FL…
The primary mission of Guantanamo Bay is to serve as a strategic logistics base for the US Navy’s Atlantic Fleet and to support counter drug operations in the Caribbean.
The Naval Base includes, as separate commands, a Naval Hospital and Branch Dental Clinic, detachments of the Personnel Support Activity, Naval Atlantic Meteorologic and Oceanographic Command, Naval Media Center, Naval Communications Station, Department of Defense Dependent Schools and a Navy Brig.
Supporting the base as departments of Naval Station are Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Resident Officer in Charge of Construction, Human Resources Office, Family Support and Service Center, Red Cross, Security and Navy Exchange/Commissary.
Krik Construction expects to complete paving by April 2011. For the task order, 1 proposal was received by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Jacksonville, FL (N69450-08-D-1272).
