Katrina Cleanup Contracts Continue for KBR

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The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southern Division in North Charleston, SC continues to issue contracts related to post-Katrina cleanup at US military facilities. Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services in Arlington, VA recently received a pair of modifications to contracts it had already been granted.

These task orders were issued under contract # N62470-04-D-4017, a $500 million contract specifying unusual capability requirements; these two task orders alone now total $104.7 million. Modifications included:

• A $33.6 million modification (P0009) to Task Order 0017 for under a cost-reimbursement, for Hurricane Katrina stabilization and recovery at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pascagoula, NAS Gulfport, Stennis Space Center and other Navy installations in the Southeast Region. Award of this modification brings the total task order amount to $61.3 million, and work is expected to be complete by September 2007.

• A $10 million Modification (P0011) to Task Order 0016 for Hurricane Katrina stabilization and recovery at Naval Support Activity (NSA) New Orleans, Joint Reserve Base (JRB) New Orleans, and other Navy installations in the South Region. Award of this modification brings the total task order amount to $43.4 million. Work will be performed in New Orleans, LA and other Navy installations in the South Region, and is expected to be complete by September 2007.

Work to be performed in these indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity emergency construction capabilities contracts involves re-construction, re-roofing of most buildings, barracks, debris removal from the entire base, water mitigation, mold mitigation, interior and exterior repairs to most buildings, waste treatment plants, and all incidental related work.