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Contract Award: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine) – $58,891,505

General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is awarded a $58,891,505 cost-plus-award-fee contract for DDG 51 class lead yard support. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $418,559,309. Work will be performed in Bath/Brunswick, Maine (99%); and other locations (collectively totaling 1%), and is expected to be complete by November 2024. Fiscal 2021 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $27,015,166 (48%); fiscal 2022 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $15,668,462 (28%); fiscal 2020 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $11,110,621 (20%); fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $879,497 (2%); fiscal 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $704,818 (1%); fiscal 2013 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $180,691 (less than 1%); and fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funds in the amount of $165,529 (less than 1%), will be obligated at time of award, of which $180,691 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1) (only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements). Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-24-C-2313).
 
Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $41,681,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N0001924F0085) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001922G0002). This order provides maintenance, logistics, and program management support to meet existing and future retrofit requirements for organizational, intermediate, and depot level repair efforts in support of the V-22 Osprey for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Work will be performed in San Diego, California (16.7%); Jacksonville, North Carolina (16.7%); Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (16.7%); Hurlburt Field, Florida (16.7%); Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (16.6%); and Fort Worth, Texas (16.6%), and is expected to be completed in November 2027. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,032,173 and fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $4,000,000 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.



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