The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast in Jacksonville, FL has issued several indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity, multiple award, design-build construction contracts for general building type projects at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay. Each contract consists of a base year and 4 option years, for a maximum of 60 months, or a maximum value of $50 million for all contracts, whichever comes first. Each contract comes with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000, a normal procedure that helps to defray the expenses of bidding and preparing to execute contracts of this type. Expected completion date is May 2009, or May 2013, with all options exercised; contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

Work to be performed is for general building type projects (new construction, renovation, alteration, and repair of facilities and infrastructure, roofing, demolition, and routine renovation) including but not limited to: 1) aviation and aircraft facilities, 2) marine facilities, 3) barracks and personnel housing facilities, 4) administrative facilities, 5) warehouses and supply facilities, 6) training facilities, 7) personnel support and service facilities, 8) security level facilities, 9) abatement and handling of hazardous/ regulated materials.

The basic contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with 5 proposals received. Winners include:

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Sunset at NB Kitsap
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Naval Base Kitsap is one of the homes for the USA’s fleet of Trident nuclear missile submarines; the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific stores both propellant and nuclear warheads. One report claims that this location has the highest concentration of nuclear warheads in the USA with more than 2,300 warheads, about half of which are sailing aboard America’s Pacific fleet of ballistic-missile submarines at any given time.

A set of contracts begun in 2008 aim to make improvements to this facility. They aren’t cheap, but one can argue that they’re worth it…

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Baltimore MD has given John C. Gremberg Co., Inc in Rockville, MD a $27.1 million firm-fixed price contract to build a new three level steel and concrete steam sterilization plan that will have the capacity to decontaminate 126,000 gallons per-day of liquid bio-waste. Work will be performed at Fort Detrick, MD and is expected to be complete by April 30/11 (W912DR-08-C-0016).

NECD
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During the 1960s, the Newport Chemical Depot (NECD) in Indiana produced the nerve agent VX until a unilateral decree halted American (but not Soviet) production and transportation of all chemical weapons. In the aftermath of 9/11, the US Department of Defense re-evaluated their chemical weapons disposal program, looking at where they might accelerate destruction of the USA’s stockpile in order to remove potential targets.

The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency has a number of storage and disposal sites, each of which has its own prime contractor. Prime contractors hold the design, build, operation and closure portions of the contract, while subcontractors to the prime contractors vary by site. This post covers the still-ongoing work at Newport, Indiana. The following is a list of the prime contractors at each CMA disposal site:

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MTRS: TALON IV
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In May 2005, DID covered the use of remote-control toys in Iraq, as improvised robots to check out possible roadside bombs. It would appear that someone took notice, because there has since been a flurry of activity on the robotic explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) front. Meanwhile, deliveries of smaller and cheaper MARCBOTs and BomBots are underway.

DefenseLink notes in its announcements that “The increase in production quantity is due to the urgent and compelling need for units that are forward deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.” So, what exactly is the MTRS program? DID explains, and covers the latest news and contract information for MTRS robots. It has been a while since our last update, with acquisitions, rising contract ceilings, new contracting agencies, and new robots all entering the mix. Per DID convention, new items are indicated in green type…

• MTRS: Why Send A Man to Do A Robot’s Job? (i.e. “Continue reading…”)
• MTRS: Contracts and Key Events
• MTRS’ Mini-Mes: MARCbot & BomBot
• MTRS Additional Readings & Sources
  
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Global Investment Recovery in Tampa, FL won a maximum $10.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity, total set aside contract with an 18 month base and 3 more 12-month options for “electronic equipment de-manufacturing services.” The firm recycles electronics, extracting metals from circuit boards and also providing services like total destruction of disk drives.

Work will be performed in Tampa, FL; Reno, NV, and Salley, SC; and the date of performance completion is February 19, 2009. There were 7 responses to the original proposal by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) in Battle Creek, MI (SP4410-07-D-1007). Which shouldn’t be surprising, as the US EPA named 7 providers in December 2004 for its Recycling Electronics and Asset Disposition with a Government Wide Acquisition Contract, in order to help federal agencies meet requirements of Executive Order #13101, “Greening the Government through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Acquisition.”

Chemical demilitarization
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Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group in Pasadena, CA received a $154.3 million increment as part of a $1.04 billion cost-plus-award-fee contract for continued chemical agency neutralization operations leading to the closure of the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, IN. Work is expected to be complete by May 31, 2009. There were 32 bids solicited on March 9, 1998, and 2 bids were received by the U.S. Army Sustainment Command in Rock Island, IL (DAAA09-99-C-0016).

Our “US Chemical Demilitarization: Expansion and Update” article discussed some of the procedures and contracts at Aberdeen, MD, which is another US Army Chemical Materials Agency site.

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We’re not telling…
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The units of USAF Space Command have a wide range of functions, from supervising Space Shuttle launches to maintaining surveillance satellites and radars, operating America’s land-based nuclear missiles, and conducting ballistic missile defense.

Over the last couple of weeks, a number of contracts have been issued for various support services to these entities. We thought our readers might appreciate a look at several of these contracts at once, rather than just presenting them on a contract by contract basis.

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Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group in Pasadena, CA received a $197 million modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract for continued chemical agent neutralization operations. Work will be performed in Newport, IN and is expected to be complete by May 31, 2009.

There were 32 bids solicited on March 9, 1998, and two bids were received by the U.S. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, IL (DAAA09-99-C-0016). The core contract was for $295.5 million, and involved a cost-plus-award-fee contract for the design, construction, operation, and closure of the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility at the Newport Chemical Depot in Newport, IN. That contract ended on December 16, 2005.

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Small business qualifier Bristol Environmental and Engineering Services in Anchorage, AK received a $6 million firm-fixed-price contract for environmental remediation of munitions training ranges located at Camp Lejeune and its satellite sites. This requirement is for the cleanup of unexploded ordinances (UXO), munitions, and target debris, and includes the relocation of berms and the clearing and re-vegetation of the ranges.

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