DEFENSE CONTRACTS VALUED AT $7.5 MILLION AND ABOVE
ARMY
Callan Marine Limited, Galveston, Texas, was awarded a $104,974,200 firm-fixed-price contract for Brazos Island Harbor channel deepening. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be performed in Brownsville, Texas, with an estimated completion date of Aug. 28, 2026. Fiscal 2024 civil construction funds in the amount of $104,974,200 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, Texas, is the contracting activity (W912HY-24-C-0005).
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC, Houston, Texas, was awarded a $51,994,150 firm-fixed-price contract for Fire Island Inlet dredging. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Work will be performed in Bay Shore, New York, with an estimated completion date of March 30, 2025. Fiscal 2024 operation and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $51,994,150 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York, New York, is the contracting activity (W912DS-24-C-0023). (Awarded Aug. 5, 2024)
NAVY
RDA Inc.,* Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is awarded a $35,677,930 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N6833524F0025) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N6833520G3039). This order procures engineering and technical services for research and development (R&D) efforts supporting anti-submarine warfare and under-sea warfare advanced sensors and systems (both active and passive) to include under-sea advantage, strategic development, multistatic active coherent, and airborne acoustic intelligence. Additionally, this effort includes digitization, encryption and assurance of production and future sonobuoys, on-going fleet training, maintenance of products for deployed systems and system stimulators including hardware and software. This R&D effort specifically supports Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III efforts under SBIR topic N98-035 entitled “Signal Processing and System Concepts to Exploit Passive Signals in Airborne Active ASW Missions,” SBIR topic N04-247 entitled “Littoral Environment Parameter Estimation from Bistatic and Multistatic Fleet Air Antisubmarine Warfare Acoustic Reverberation Data,” and SBIR topic N06-011 entitled “Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Littoral Undersea Warfare.” Work will be performed in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and is expected to be completed in August 2029. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $500,000 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.
Arete Associates,* Northridge, California, is awarded a $12,999,980 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II in support of Office of Naval Research. Work will be performed in Northridge, California, and is expected to be completed by June 2026. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) SBIR funds in the amount of $6,499,994 (50%); and fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) non-SBIR funds in the amount of $6,499,986 (50%), will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via Navy Broad Agency Announcement 15.1, Topic Number N151-049 entitled “Machine Learning Algorithm for Target Detection on the Coastal Battlefield and Reconnaissance System” with two offers received. he Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona Division, Norco, California, is the contracting activity (N6426724C0040).
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, is awarded a $9,946,321 cost reimbursement contract for the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Optical Variability Evaluation of Regional Cloud Asymmetries in Space and Time project. This contract provides for the performance of core science and technology (S&T) and research, development, test and evaluation efforts by addressing novel methods to resolve and forecast clouds and atmospheric visibility. Proposed tasks include formulating, developing, prototyping and transitioning algorithms for three-dimensional cloud character, advanced satellite environmental characterization and artificial intelligence/machine learning tools. Specific applications include atmospheric visibility assessments and tropical cyclone structure quantification. Planned effort will interact with Naval S&T and Meteorology and Oceanography Officer enterprise stakeholders to support development and transition of software into Naval systems, including via interaction with open-source government-owned software systems. Work will be performed in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is expected to be completed in July 2029. The total cumulative value of this contract, including a 60-month base period with no option periods, is $9,946,321. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,150,000 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under long range broad agency announcement (BAA) N00014-23-S-B001 entitled “Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology.” Since proposals are received throughout the year under the Long-Range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N0001424C2214).
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, is awarded a $8,871,225 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-4314 for the procurement of Ship’s force shore-based facilities through undocking for the USS Boise (SSN 764). Work will be performed in Newport News, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by October 2028. Fiscal 2023 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,871,225 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Newport News, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
IDSC Holdings LLC, Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been awarded a maximum $26,638,598 firm-fixed-price contract for Krankkarts and modification tool kits. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 3204 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is a three-year base contract with two one-year option periods. The performance completion date is Aug. 5, 2027. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2024 through 2027 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Columbus, Ohio (SPE7LX-24-D-0080).
UPDATE: Geo-Med LLC,** Lake Mary, Florida (SPE2DE-24-D-0025, $49,000,000), has been added as an awardee to the multiple award contract for medical and surgical supplies for the Defense Logistics Agency Electronic Catalog, issued against solicitation SPE2DE-22-R-0017 and awarded Sept. 28, 2023.
CORRECTION: The contract announced on July 30, 2024, for AM General LLC, South Bend, Indiana (SPRDL1-24-D-0056), for $41,563,407 was announced with an incorrect award date. The correct award date is July 31, 2024.
*Small business
**Service-disabled veteran-owned small business
