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FOR RELEASE AT
5 p.m. ET
No. 172-97
April 11, 1997


CONTRACTS

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

PYA/Monarch Atlanta, Atlanta, Ga., is being awarded a $21,624,304 firm fixed price indefinite quantity contract for food and beverage support under the Prime Vendor program. Three hundred thirty four proposals were solicited and four were received. Work is expected to be completed by April 16, 1998. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SP0300-97-D-2805).

Beaver Street Foods*, Jacksonville, Fla., is being awarded a $8,241,527 firm fixed price indefinite quantity contract for food and beverage support under the Prime Vendor program. Three hundred thirty four proposals were solicited and four were received. Work is expected to be completed by April 16, 1998. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SP0300-97-D-2806).

Sysco Food Services of Central Florida, Ocoee, Fla., is being awarded a $11,663,157 firm fixed price indefinite quantity contract for food and beverage support under the Prime Vendor program. Three hundred thirty four proposals were solicited and four were received. Work is expected to be completed by April 16, 1998. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SP0300-97-D-2804).

Robert Orr Sysco, Nashville, Tenn., is being awarded a $12,182,050 firm fixed price indefinite quantity contract for food and beverage support under the Prime Vendor program. Three hundred thirty four proposals were solicited and four were received. Work is expected to be completed by April 16, 1998. Funds will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SP0300-97-D-2803).

ARMY

Molecular Geodesics Inc.*, Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $2,250,000 increment as part of a $6,449,413 cost plus fixed fee, research and development contract in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Biological Warfare Defense (BWD) program; specifically, the contractor will identify biomimetic materials for pathogen neutralization. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Mass., and is expected to be completed by March 10, 1999. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There was an announcement in the Commerce Business Daily on July 12, 1996, and 39 bids were received. The contracting activity is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Va. (MDA972-97-C-0010).

AIR FORCE

United Technologies Corp., West Palm Beach, Fla., is being awarded a $50,036,280 face value increase to a firm fixed price contract to provide for twelve 100-PW-229 engines applicable to the F-15 aircraft. The work will be performed at Pratt & Whitney Manufacturing Division, East Hartford, Conn. Contract is expected to be completed December 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-94/D-2001, P0048).

NAVY

General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $5,411,586 ceiling-price, basic ordering agreement for 10,802 HPT rotor blades used on the F-404-400/402 engine on the F/A-18 aircraft. Work will be performed in Lynn, Mass., and is expected to be completed by November 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (F34601-97- G-0002) (Order GDL7).

STANDARD Missile Company, McLean, Va., is being awarded a $109,907,312 modification to previously awarded contract N00024- 96-C-5337 for FY95/96/97 requirements for STANDARD Missile - 2 Block IV. These requirements include 97 STANDARD Missile - 2 Block IV All-Up-Rounds, spares, test equipment upgrades, containers, and assembly and test fixtures. Work will be performed in McLean, Va. (3.5%), Tucson, Ariz. (26.7%), Bristol, Tenn. (40.8%), San Jose, Calif. (16.8%), Irvine, Calif. (6.8%), and Chattanooga, Tenn (5.4%), and is expected to be completed by December 1999. Contract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity.

Morrison Knudsen Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, is being awarded a $1,537,851 modification to previously awarded contract N62467-93- D-1106 for environmental remedial action which includes the removal of underground storage tanks at the Libertyville Training Site, Vernon Hills, Ill. The basic total contract amount is not-to-exceed $300,000,000. Work will be performed in Vernon Hills, Ill., and is expected to be completed by April 1998. This contract was not competitively procured. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southern Division, North Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Fla., is being awarded a $77,068,551 modification to previously awarded contract N00019-94- C-0222 for 60 Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) test stations for the U.S. Navy (57%), and the Governments of Spain (4%), and Italy (1%) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program. Work will be performed in Americus, Ga. (90%), and Orlando, Fla. (10%), and is expected to be completed by May 1999. 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.

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $27,807,517 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the repair, overhaul and upgrade of the Military Sealift Command ammunition ship USNS Mount Baker (T-AR 34). This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of the entire contract to $31,561,061. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va., and is expected to be completed by June 1998. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with 34 proposals solicited and five offers received. The Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N62387-97-C-4003).