Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp. in Fairfax, VA received a $218.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for technical services in support of the U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center. This contract includes a base period of 2 years, plus a pair of additional 2-year options that would bring the total estimated value of the contract to $686.1 million if exercised.
With a manpower ceiling of almost 9 million man-hours, the contract will support various facets of the command’s joint training, exercise and rehearsal program. Northrop-Grumman will provide support on a local and remote basis for:
* Planning
* Scheduling
* Logistics
* Simulation
* Intelligence
* Exercise scenario development
* Database builds
* Distributed learning
* Courseware development
* Control and analysis
Work will be performed in Suffolk, VA (95%), and various government sites (5%), and is expected to be complete by August 2008. Contract funds in the amount of $13 million will expire before the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured through Navy Electronic Commerce Online, with two offers received by the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Norfolk, Contracting Department Philadelphia Division (N00140-06-D-0060).
See also USJFCOM release, and of course all DID coverage of USJFCOM.