The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Northwest awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award design-build construction contracts to 6 small business qualifiers for US military construction projects in the Northwest United States. The maximum dollar value, including the base period and 4 option years, for all 6 contracts is $200 million.

The contractors will carry out new construction, renovation, alteration, demolition, and repair work through design-build or design-bid-build projects. The work will be performed at a broad range of sites, including commercial and institutional facilities, administrative and industrial facilities, housing facilities, child care centers, lodges, recreational/fitness centers, retail complexes, warehouses, offices, community centers, medical facilities, operational airfield facilities, hangars, armories, fire stations, auditoriums, religious facilities and manufacturing facilities.

The winners of the NAVFAC Northwest contracts are:

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Plans for Walter Reed
National Military Medical Ctr
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General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) in Fairfax, VA won a $322.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide initial outfitting and transition services at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital (FBCH) at Fort Belvoir, VA; both are new military facilities being built in the greater US National Capital Region (NCR).

GDIT will assist with hospital transitioning and activation, and install materiel, furniture, medical, non-medical, and IT equipment. The company will also provide operational and maintenance training on the equipment and will move and reuse existing equipment and materiel.

The new medical facilities are mandated by the Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) law, enacted to implement the 2005 BRAC Commission’s recommendations, to accommodate the closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.

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Flooding at Kessler AFB
from Hurricane Katrina
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W.G. Yates & Sons Construction in Biloxi, MS won a $37.3 million firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a community hospital at Keesler Air Force Base, also in Biloxi.

Kessler AFB, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is the home of the 81st Training Wing – the electronics, computer and weather training center of the US Air Force. It is also home of Keesler Medical Center, the 2nd largest USAF medical facility.

Under the contract, W.G. Yates will build a 4-story, 141,000-square-foot medical facility…

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TransHospital, Afghanistan
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Shipping containers are ubiquitous in a globalized world, and many modes of transport on air, sea, and land are adapted to carry them easily. To portability, add protection: their rigid metal construction provides more shielding than tent fabric, and this can be augmented by digging the structure in slightly or putting up Hesco-type instafill walls nearby. A number of manufacturers have thrown in a 3rd advantage: modular flexibility, created by making it easy to connect containerized modules and deploy the exact combination you need.

Military and para-public medical facilities are natural fits with these advantages, and EADS’ innovative TransHospital leverages all of them. Now, the Thai government will become a customer, giving them a transportable field hospital for military or disaster-related use…

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International SOS Assistance in Trevose, PA won a fixed-price requirements contract to provide health care support services, dental care services and claims processing to the US Department of Defense TRICARE Overseas Program. The total potential contract value, including an approximately 10-month base period and 5 one-year option periods for health care delivery, plus a transition-out period, is estimated at $269.1 million.

The TRICARE Management Activity provides health care coverage to 9.4 million active duty military family members, military retirees and their eligible family members.

The new contract includes the establishment of host nation provider networks around military treatment facility (MTFs)...

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Coakley & Williams Construction in Gaithersburg, MD won a $42.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to design/build an Armed Forces Medical Examiner System Facility at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The medical examiner facility is being moved from Rockville, MD to Dover, DE as a result of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) implementation [pdf]...

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Fort Benning’s New Hospital
Artist’s rendition
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Turner Construction Co. in Huntsville, AL won [PDF] a $333.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to design and build a 745,000-square-foot hospital at Fort Benning, GA, almost 2 times the size of the current 393,000 square-foot facility.

With 70 in-patient beds, the new hospital will serve soldiers, military retirees, and families of the Fort Benning community. The design is split into 2 wings – a clinic and a hospital section, equipped with 2 parking decks for patients and staff members…

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Taking Stock
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The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, PA, awarded 3 contracts worth up to $60 million for a Department of Defense pharmaceutical reverse distribution program.

The program enables the return of and credit for overstocked, expired, and in-dated pharmaceutical products.

The 3 firms receiving the pharmaceutical reverse distribution program contracts are:

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The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast awarded 7 firms indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award design-bid-build construction contracts worth up to $100 million for general building type projects at US Marine Corps facilities in South Carolina. The general building type projects include new construction, renovation, alteration, and repair of facilities and infrastructure, roofing, demolition, and routine renovation.

The contractors will perform the work at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island (45%); Marine Corps Air Station at Beaufort (45%); and the Naval Hospital at Beaufort (10 percent).

The winning contractors are all small business qualifiers:

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Surgery, USNS Mercy
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Hologic LP in Marlborough, MA received a maximum $28.2 million firm-fixed-price, sole-source, indefinite quantity/ indefinite delivery contract to provide medical supplies to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force and US Marine Corps.

This contract consists of a 1-year base period and four 1-year unilateral option ordering periods. The date of performance completion is Sept 30/10. The original proposal was Web solicited with 1 response by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, PA (SPM2DE-09-D-7228).