Emergency Services: Up to $900M from US NAVFAC

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In September 2011, US Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific in Pearl Harbor, HI awarded a new emergency engineering and infrastructure umbrella contract to 4 firms. Up to $900 million could be up for grabs among the 4 qualifying firms, over a 5 year period (base year + 4 option years), ending in September 2016 at the latest.

This is an indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for the purchase of “short-term facility support services with incidental construction” in support of natural disasters; humanitarian efforts; the full range of military actions; and incumbent breaks in service at various locations throughout the world. NAVFAC has issued similar contracts before: a $500 million contract that ran from 2005-2009 came in handy a few times, in response to disasters like hurricane Katrina. This one could involve work on:

Rapid Fire 2011-09-11: From Russia with Love

• Russia is about to order 65 Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainers, to be delivered by 2017.

• Dmitry Gorenburg posted a series of 3 articles covering the span of Russia-NATO military cooperation. Things started with joint training but now also include operational cooperation such as allowing the Northern Distribution Network to fly over Russia supply US troops in Afghanistan, as well as industrial cooperation, most notably with France, including, but not limited to, Mistral ships. Case in point, just yesterday Government-owned Russian Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indra of Spain that spans several industries including defense.

• Venezuela’s $3.6B in bond deals with Russia this year “point to defense purchases” according to UPI and in line with news reports from last August.