As the season moves into high summer, more of our readers are managing to get out of town (in a non-deployed way). DID’s staff will be at our parent firm’s corporate meetings over the next few days, and will not be publishing during that time.
Publishing will resume next Tuesday, and a new newsletter will arrive in your mailboxes on Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
On Aug 3/07, the US DSCA announced Spain’s formal request [PDF] for 2 MK 7 AEGIS Weapons Systems. The heart of the AEGIS weapon system is Lockheed Martin’s AN/SPY-1D Radar System, a 3-dimensional, air/surface search and tracking radar; there is also a software combat system component. Spain also asked for 2 MK 41 Baseline VII Vertical Launch Systems, and 2 MK 45 MOD 2 5″ Gun Mounts. These sets would equip 2 of that country’s F100 Alvaro de Bazan Class AEGIS frigates, which will also serve as the basis for Australia’s Hobart Class ships.
Envision in Wichita, KS is being awarded a fixed-price requirements type contract to provide plastic T-Shirt Bags at all U.S. commissary store locations. After the $49.8 million one-year base period runs from Sept 1/07 – Aug 31/08, another 4 one-year option periods are available. If all option periods are exercised, the contract will be completed Aug 31/12.
Commissary stores are on-base shopping centers operated around the world for the benefit of US military personnel. To get an idea of the scale involved, annual sales at those commissaries exceeds $5 billion. Even their paper bag contracts aren’t small, though they are cheaper. Envision, a National Industry for the Blind Agency, was solicited and submitted an offer for this solicitation as mandated by the procurement list. The contracting activity is the Defense Commissary Agency, Revenue, Supplies & Headquarters Support Branch (AMDR) at Fort Lee, VA 23801-1800 (HDEC05-07-D-0003).
