Iraqi Police,
Baghdad
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Global Fleet Sales, Inc. is a member of the RM Asia Group of Companies, and has a long history of working in “difficult market situations” to produce modified and baseline Ford vehicles for companies and organizations involved in Humanitarian, Aid, Relief and Development Projects, and Police services around the world. The firm has been tapped for a number of US government contracts beginning in 2005, and DID has covered one of those contracts for Afghan Police vehicles. GFS maintains all of the vehicles used by the Afghan National Army, with maintenance facilities in Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Kabul and Gardez; its parent firm RM Asia has a full country office in Afghanistan.

GFS has now opened a production and engineering center at Thailand’s Laem Chabang duty free deep sea port, near the Ford plant at Rayong. The new production facility provides the full range of vehicle modifications ranging from special application fire trucks to ambulances, military Vehicles, severe off-road (SOR is an excellent acronym…) vehicles, refrigerated boxes, and limited accessory fitting. They complement the firm’s on-site warehouses for parts et. al.

A couple of recent awards fall under a 3 year firm-fixed-price contract with the US military to provide modified vehicles for customers like the Afghan and Iraqi police, and for other foreign military sales customers who might choose to order under the set contract terms and advantageous prices the US military has negotiated. GFS’ Contracts include…

Contracts

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TACOM is the US Army Tank & Automotive Command in Warren, MI. They issue all of these contracts, which are delivery orders under umbrella agreements. The 3-year (W56HZV-07-D-G002) contract is currently in its 2nd year, for instance, with about 1.5 years left as of January 2008.

April 28/08: Global Fleet Sales in Charlottesville, VA received a $12.1 million firm-fixed price contract for cargo transport II trucks. Work will be performed in Chonburi, Thailand, and is expected to be complete by Feb 4/11. Web bids were solicited on May 18/06, and 9 bids were received (W56HZV-06-D-G002).

Jan 22/08: Global Fleet Sales in Charlottesville, VA received a $39.9 million firm-fixed-price contract for 383 dump trucks. Work will be performed in Turkey, and is expected to be complete by June 1/11. Web bids were solicited on Aug 15/07, and 4 bids were received by TACOM in Warren, MI (W56HZV-08-D-G096). The contract had reportedly belonged to a firm in the Ukraine before.

Jan 16/08: Global Fleet Sales, Inc. in Charlottesville, VA received $84.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for police light tactical vehicles and spare parts. Work will be performed in Thailand, and is expected to be complete by Feb 4/11. Web bids were solicited on May 18/06, and 9 bids were received (W56HZV-07-D-G002).

Jan 16/08: Global Fleet Sales in Charlottesville, VA received a $72 million firm-fixed-price contract for police light tactical vehicles and spare parts. Work will be performed in Thailand, and is expected to be complete by Feb 4/11. Web bids were solicited on May 18/06, and 9 bids were received (W56HZV-07-D-G002).

March 6/06: Small business qualifier Global Fleet Sales Inc. in Anderson, Ind., was awarded on March 1, 2006, an $8.6 million increment as part of a $17.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for Afghan National Police trucks. Work will be performed in Bangkok, Thailand, and is expected to be complete by July 31/06. This was a sole source contract initiated on Feb. 9/06 (W56HZV-06-C-T002). See DID coverage

Jan 3/05: Small business qualifier RM Asia USA Inc. in Anderson, IN received an $11.7 million firm-fixed-price contract for 583 Ford Ranger trucks, spare parts, and technical manuals. Work will be performed in Chonburi, Thailand (90%) and Pol-e-chrky, Kabul (10%), and is expected to be complete by April 30, 2005. This was a sole source contract initiated on Dec 27/04 (W56HZV-05-C-0192).

Additional Readings

• US DSCA (March 24/08) – Iraqi Police add new trucks to fleet through Foreign Military Sales Program. “MG Abdulameer, Assistant Deputy Ministry for Infrastructure, said the Ministry of Interior has purchased 2,600 vehicles this year to strengthen its force. He announced that more than 300 Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup trucks and Ford Ranger pickup trucks arrived recently. The vehicles are sent to every Province and branch of the Ministry of Interior, he said.”