CONTRACTS
ARMY
Aerojet Propulsion Systems Plant, Sacramento, California, is
being awarded $7,533,000 of a not-to-exceed $15,066,000 fixed
price incentive/letter contract for 368 HAWK Rocket Motors for
the government of Egypt. Work will be performed in Sacramento,
California, and is expected to be completed by August 31, 1998.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. This is a sole source contract initiated on September 26,
1996. The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Missile Command,
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama (DAAH01-97-C-0017).
CIVIL WORKS - NON MILITARY
C. R. Pittman Construction, Incorporated, New Orleans,
Louisiana, was awarded on November 4, 1996, a $20,000 increment
as part of a $6,780,252 firm fixed price contract for the Davis
Pond Freshwater Diversion Project, which will include 9
construction contracts. The contractor will divert freshwater
and its accompanying sediments from the Mississippi River into
the Barataria Bay basin. These diversions will increase the
production of commercial and recreational fish and wildlife,
enhance growth of the vegetation, and reduce land loss. Benefits
will include production of a healthy estuary ecosystem in the
Barataria Basin by retarding saltwater intrusion, and
establishing favorable salinity conditions. The bays are
important to
oyster production and as breeding areas for shrimp and food
fishes while the marsh areas produce natural food for fur-bearing
animals and migratory waterfowl. A total of 33,000 acres of
marsh land will be preserved and 777,000 acres of marshes and
bays will be benefited by the project. The diversion will take
place under regulated conditions developed from monitoring the
impact on the environment, and the fish and wildlife; and will
permanently require 10,084 acres and temporarily utilize an
additional 130 acres during construction. Work will be performed
in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and is expected to be completed
by December 20, 1997. Contract funds will not expire at the end
of the current fiscal year. There were 102 bids solicited on
June 7, 1996, and ten bids were received. The contracting
activity is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans,
Louisiana (DACW29-97-C-0005).
NAVY
Bell Helicopter Textron, Incorporated, Fort Worth, Texas, is
being awarded a $13,278,708 firm-fixed-price delivery order
against a basic ordering agreement to fabricate
and install 18 Night Targeting System/Cockpit Canopy
Modifications into 18 Taiwan Army
AH-1W Helicopters, provide and install items into one Taiwan Army
spare AH-1W tailboom, and provide 17 AH-1W canopy covers for the
Government of Taiwan under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
Program. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (45%), and
Tainan, Taiwan (55%), and is expected to be completed by January
1999. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the
current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively
procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the
contracting activity (N00019-93-G-0185).
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace,
St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $10,064,072 modification to
previously awarded contract N00019-94-C-0039
to procure four additional AN/AAS-38B Targeting Forward Looking
Infrared Systems for the Royal Malaysian Air Force F/A-18Ds under
the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. Work will be performed
in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (98%), and St. Louis, Mo. (2%),
and is expected to be completed by March 1998. Contract funds
would not have expired at the end
of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command,
Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.
OHM Remediation Services Corporation, Aiea, Hawaii, is being
awarded a $5,027,339 modification to previously awarded contract
N62742-93-D-0610 for environmental remedial action at the Naval
Air Facility, Midway Island. Work to be performed provides for
all services, labor, equipment, and materials required to add 150
vertical injection wells and distribution piping as a result of
design changes to the Fluid Injection and Vacuum Extraction
(FIVE) Treatment System which will operate 24 hours per day,
seven days per week in order to meet the base closure deadline.
Work will be performed at the Naval Air Facility, Midway Island,
and is expected to be completed by July 1997. The contract
includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative
value of this contract to $250,000,000. Contract funds will not
expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific Division, Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, is the contracting activity.
AIR FORCE
Texstar Incorporated, Grand Prairie, Texas, is being awarded
a $5,693,955 firm fixed price contract to provide for 411 spare
transparencies (cockpit shields) applicable to the F-16 aircraft.
Contract is expected to be completed November 1998. Contract
funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
There were two proposals received. Solicitation began July 1996;
negotiations were completed October 1996. Approximately 11% (46
transparencies) of this effort supports foreign military sales to
Egypt, Singapore, Taiwan, Venezuela, and Greece. Ogden Air
Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting
activity (F42620-97/C-0007).
