VT Group (formerly VT Milcom)… C4ISR Concerns (Comms)

[SatNews] VT Milcom is being awarded an $843,303,609 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price-incentive (firm target), firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee multiple award contract.

This award to the Company is for the successful installation and operational certification of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Centers for PEO (C4I & Space), Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and other prospective U.S. Government and Foreign Military Sales customers. The C4ISR systems are produced under various production contracts (separate from this contract) and are delivered as Government Furnished Equipment to this contract for installation onboard surface ships, submarines, and shore stations located worldwide.

This contract includes one option which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to an estimated $1,386,039,973. Work will be performed aboard U.S. Navy platforms on the East and West Coasts as well as locations worldwide, and is expected to be completed by January 2014. If all options are exercised, work could continue until January 2016. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured with full and open competition via the Commerce Business Daily‘s Federal Business Opportunities website and the Space and Naval Warfare Systemse-Commerce Central website, with four offers received. These four contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity (N00039-11-D-0033).