Contract Award: Design West Technologies Inc. (Tustin, California) – $24,408,265

Design West Technologies Inc.,* Tustin, California, is awarded a $24,408,265 firm-fixed-price contract for the manufacture, assembly, test and delivery of MK 5 Mod 2 and MK 6 Mod 1 launch sequencers and associated kitted material. The launch sequencers and kitted materials are subsystems and components of the MK 41 Vertical Launching System used on ships of the U.S. Navy and foreign navies. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $138,822,860. This contract combines purchases for the U.S. government (48%); and the governments of Australia (20%); Spain (17%); Germany (8%); Finland (5%); and the Republic of Korea (2%) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Work will be performed in Tustin, California, and is expected to be completed by December 2023. If all options are exercised, work will continue through June 2029. Fiscal 2021 Foreign Military Sales in the amount of $12,669,855 (52%); fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $4,997,350 (21%); fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,773,344 (11%); fiscal 2021 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,541,040 (6%); fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Army) funds in the amount of $1,386,672 (6%); and fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,040,004 (4%) will be obligated at time of award, of which funds in the amount of $2,773,344 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the beta.sam.gov website, with four offers received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division, Port Hueneme, California, is the contracting activity (N63394-21-C-0011).