The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) awarded 6 small business qualifiers firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts with a combined maximum value of $151.1 million to suppport and maintain US Navy barges.

The companies will provide management, administrative and production services, materials, tools, equipment, facilities and required support for depot level troubleshooting, repair, renewal, refurbishment, modernization, maintenance and testing of Navy living barges and their auxiliary systems (hull, mechanical and electrical), including the potential of periodic docking. Living barges have crew living quarters and galleys.

Four firms will service barges in the Norfolk, VA area, and 2 will service barges in Jacksonville, FL…

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The US Marine Corps is moving ahead with plans to build 24 new barracks for single Marines at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. The service plans to add 22,000 Marines from FY 2010-2013, and intends to build modern barracks to accommodate the expected 4,000 Marine increase at Camp Pendleton. The new housing is expected to bring single Marine quarters up to the same standard as married quarters. It’s part of a $2 billion makeover that also includes new training facilities, a fitness center, electrical and sewer improvements, and other facilities.

The latest contracts were awarded to Solpac for repairs to existing single Marines barracks…

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Ask Sherwin-Williams…or PPG
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PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, PA (N00189-10-D-0007) and Sherwin-Williams in Cleveland, OH (N00189-10-D-0006) each received an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity with fixed unit price contract to provide marine coatings approved for US Navy shipyards.

Each contract contains a 1-year base period with 3 one-year option periods. The combined value of the contracts, if all options are exercised, would total $35.1 million…

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Private Vehicle Storage
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American Auto Logistics (AAL) in Park Ridge, NJ received a $207.4 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract [pdf] for transportation and storage of US military’s privately owned vehicles (POVs).

AAL operates 40 vehicle process centers and 8 long-term storage facilities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia…

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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) received a task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to provide the Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) with engineering support services. The order has a maximum value of $160 million if all options are exercised.

The PEO IWS manages surface ship and submarine combat technologies and systems, and coordinates Navy open architecture across ship platforms.

Under the task order, the SAIC team will provide enterprise services for systems engineering, ship integration and product development. The team will also help oversee the design, construction and maintenance of surface ships.

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Keep on Moving
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Everybody hates to move. And no one moves more than the US military. With approximately 500,000 household goods shipments every year, the military is the largest moving population in the United States.

To help ease the process, the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) has contracted with SRA International to automate the process using information technology under the Defense Personal Property System (DPS).

The web-based DPS enables US military personnel, family members, government managers and moving companies to plan, schedule, contract for, move and receive shipments of household belongings from assignment to assignment.

SRA began work on DPS in 2004…

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USS Hartford [SSN-768] returns
to New London for repairs
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General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB) in Groton, CT received a $25 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00024-10-C-4302) to staff and operate the Nuclear Regional Maintenance Department (NRMD) at the Naval Submarine Base New London, according to Robert Hamilton at GDEB. The company will perform project management, engineering and planning, training, inspection, and radiological control services for nuclear submarine maintenance, modernization and repairs.

The contract has a potential value of $78 million over 3 years if all options are exercised. The US Department of Defense incorrectly announced Oct 26/09 that the GDEB contract was for non-nuclear maintenance and repair support at the base’s Naval Submarine Support Facility.

GDEB had been operating the NRMD under a previously awarded contract. The company’s current NRMD staff is around 25 employees, but that number has been as high as 100, according to Hamilton. The NRMD consists of five groups…

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LTM in Havelock, NC received a $25.8 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-01-D-0101) to support the Fleet Readiness Center (FRC) East at Cherry Point, NC.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent River, MD is exercising an option on the contract for LTM to provide approximately 431,707 hours of maintenance planning and design interface technical/management support services that include evaluating initial designs and proposed design changes, maintenance planning, and sustaining maintenance plans.

The FRC East provides maintenance, engineering and logistics support primarily for US Navy and US Marine Corps aircraft…

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The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center in San Diego, CA awarded 6 firm-fixed-price multiple award 5-year term contracts to provide sheet metal repair and fabrication services – such as repairs to partitions, ductwork, and piping – onboard US Navy ships and other government vessels within a 50-mile radius of San Diego. The maximum ceiling value for all 6 contracts is $202 million.

The 6 small business qualifiers will compete for delivery orders under the terms and conditions of the contracts. Each contractor will provide all personnel, management, administrative and production services, material, tools, equipment, and required support to perform the work.

And the winners are…

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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
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Cianbro Corp. in Pittsfield, ME won a $19.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to repair the caisson (gate) and the sill at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s Drydock 2 facility.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1 of 4 remaining naval shipyards in the United States, provides the US Navy’s nuclear powered submarine fleet with overhaul, repair, and modernization facilities.

To carry out the repairs, Cianbro will build a temporary cofferdam to allow demolition and reconstruction of the drydock’s sill structure…

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