TACOM Orders Global Fleet Sales Trucks
Baghdad
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$146M order. (May 27/11)
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, such as one 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.
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.
Contracts
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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 etc.
TACOM is the US Army Tank & Automotive Command in Warren, MI. They issue and manage all of these contracts, which are delivery orders under umbrella agreements.
May 27/11: Global Fleet Sales, Inc. in Southfield, MI receives a $146 million firm-fixed-price contract for 1,788 Cargo Transport II trucks; 3,955 police trucks; and 55 mobile maintenance trucks. Work will be performed in Chonburi, Thailand, with an estimated completion date of Nov 31/12. The bid was solicited through the Internet, with 3 bids received (W56HZV-11-C-0338).
Dec 3/10: Global Fleet Sales, Inc. in Southfield, MI receives an $85.5 million firm-fixed-price contract modification for an estimated 3,651 light tactical vehicles, in Cargo Transport-II and Police truck variants. Work is to be performed in Thailand, with an estimated completion date of Dec 24/11. Bids were solicited via the Federal Business Opportunities website with 6 bids received (W56HZV-10-D-G008, P00001).
Oct 24/08: Global Fleet Sales Inc. in Charlottesville, VA received a $6.5 million fixed-price contract for 323 Cargo Transport II trucks. Work will be performed in Laem, Chabang, Sriracha, and Chonburi, Thailand, with an estimated completion date of Feb 04/11 (W56HZV-06-D-G002).
Aug 4/08: Global Fleet Sales, Inc. in Charlottesville, VA received a $15.4 million Firm Fixed Price, 3-Year Requirements contract for “mobile maintenance vehicles and Cargo Transport II Vehicles.”
Work will be performed in Thailand, and is expected to be complete by February 4/11. Nine bids were received on May 18/06 (W56HZV-06-D-G0002).
July 3/08: Global Fleet Sales, Inc. in Charlottesville, VA received a $10.4 million firm-fixed price contract for “mobile maintenance vehicles.” Work will be performed in Thailand and is expected to be completed by Feb 4/11. Web bids were solicited on May 18/06, and 9 bids were received (WHZV-06-D-G002).
May 24/08: To meet its rapidly growing expansion, the Ministry of Interior has received more than 2,000 new police vehicles this year acquired through Foreign Military Sales. The shipment of Ford Ranger pickup trucks that arrived this week at the Ministry of Interior brought the 2008 total to 2,054 vehicles, according to U. S. Air Force Lt. Col. Paul Scholl, vehicle and fuel lead for the Ministry of Interior Training Team.
Lt. Col. Scholl said that this year the Ministry of Interior has received 820 Nissan Patrol vehicles, 327 Nissan Maximas police vehicles, 496 Ford Super Duty pickup trucks, and 360 Ford Ranger pickup trucks and more than 50 armored vehicles. Most of the vehicles come with police communication setup and emergency warning lights. CENTCOM MNSTC-I release [PDF]
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).
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
- Note that GFS is not an exclusive provider of these types of vehicles to American allies. The pickup truck in the top photo, for instance, is a Chevrolet and hence not from GFS. It is used for illustrative purposes.
- 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.”
