Contract Award: Federal Connect LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland) – $72,098,863

Federal Connect LLC,* Gaithersburg, Maryland, is awarded an estimated $72,098,863 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price ordering provisions to provide research and surveillance support services required to conduct medical research, development, testing infectious disease samples, evaluation, and surveillance to enhance deployment readiness of Department of Defense personnel worldwide in support of Naval Health Research Center Operation Infectious Diseases department. The contract will include a five-year ordering period with an additional six-month ordering period pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.217-8 which, if exercised, will bring the total estimated value of the contract to $80,040,214. Work will be completed by September 2029; if the option is exercised, work will be completed by March 2030. Work will be performed in San Diego, California (80%); and various locations inside and outside of the contiguous U.S. that cannot be determined at this time (20%). Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) (RDT&E) funds in the contract’s minimum amount of $1,000 will be obligated at time of award and funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Subsequent task orders will be funded with appropriate fiscal year operations and maintenance (Navy) or RDT&E (Navy) funds. The requirement was competitively procured on Navy Electronic Commerce Online and sam.gov websites under a small business set-aside with three offers received. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk Contracting Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00189-24-D-Z047).