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Contract Award: AFH Logistics Services LLC (Downers Grove, Illinois) – $14,010,644

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, November 1st, 2021

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AFH Logistics Services LLC,* Downers Grove, Illinois, has been awarded a maximum $14,010,644 firm-fixed-price contract for commercial cold storage of government-owned operational rations. This was a competitive acquisition with three responses received. This is a five-year base contract with five one-year option periods. Locations of performance are Illinois and Alabama, with a Nov. 11, 2026, performance completion date. Using customer is Defense Logistics Agency. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2022 through 2026 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania (SP3300-22-D-0001).

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