U.S. NAVY
(Defenselink -- 28 June 2006) Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $169,893,496 firm-fixed-price requirements contract for a performance based logistics in support of Navy, Coast Guard, and foreign military sale cooperative logistics supply support agreements demands for the phalanx close-in weapon system. This contract combines procurements between the Navy (74.79 percent); Coast Guard (4.6 percent); and the Governments of Australia (5 percent); Israel (5 percent); New Zealand (5 percent); Japan (1 percent); United Kingdom (1 percent); Canada (1 percent); Taiwan (1 percent); Poland (1 percent); Bahrain (0.4 percent); Saudi Arabia (0.21 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Louisville, Ky. (90 percent), and Tucson, Ariz. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by April 2011. Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity (N00104-06-D-L007).
(Defenselink -- 28 June 2006) ViaSat*, Carlsbad, Calif., is being awarded a $39,552,709 firm-fixed-price delivery order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVTs). The MIDS-LVT provides secure, high capacity, jam resistant, digital data and voice communications capability for Navy, Air Force and Army platforms. This delivery order combines purchases for the United States (83.5 percent) and the governments of Portugal (11 percent), Turkey (4.5 percent), and Germany (1 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Contract funds in the amount of $847,116 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Work will be performed in Carlsbad, Calif. (30 percent), and in various other sites worldwide (70 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2008. This delivery order was competitively procured with two proposals solicited and two offers received via the SPAWAR e-commerce web site. The synopsis was released via the Federal Business Opportunities web site. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-00-D-2101).
(Defenselink -- 28 June 2006) Data Link Solutions, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is being awarded a $34,564,528 firm-fixed-price delivery order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System-Low Volume Terminals (MIDS-LVTs). The MIDS-LVT provides secure, high capacity, jam resistant, digital data and voice communications capability for Navy, Air Force and Army platforms. This delivery order combines purchases for the United States (77 percent) and the governments of Switzerland (12 percent), Poland (5 percent), Japan (3 percent), Australia (2 percent), and Germany (1 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in Wayne, N.J. (50 percent), and Cedar Rapids, Iowa (50 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2008. Contract funds in the amount of $374,908 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This delivery order was competitively procured with two proposals solicited and two offers received via the SPAWAR e-commerce web site. The synopsis was released via the Federal Business Opportunities web site. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-00-D-2100).