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Contract Award: Raytheon Co. (Tucson, Arizona) – $105,848,728

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $105,848,728 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only contract for engineering and technical services in support of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile and NATO Seasparrow Missile Systems programs. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $362,447,752. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (96%); and the governments of Japan (1%); Thailand (1%); United Arab Emirates (1%); and the Republic of Korea (1%) under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona (73%); Portsmouth, Rhode Island (26%); Andover, Massachusetts (less than 1%); San Jose, California (less than 1%); Aranjuez, Spain (less than 1%); Brisbane, Australia (less than 1%); and Koropi Attica, Greece (less than 1%). Work is expected to be completed by December 2021. If all options are exercised, work will continue through December 2025. Fiscal 2021 other customer funds in the amount of $11,280,119 (62%); fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,746,831 (20%); fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $1,503,592 (8%); fiscal 2021 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $713,373 (4%); fiscal 2020 other customer funds in the amount of $301,080 (2%); fiscal 2019 other customer funds in the amount of $149,250 (1%); FMS Japan funds in the amount of $100,000 (1%); FMS Thailand funds in the amount of $46,966 (1%); and FMS United Arab Emirates funds in the amount of $46,966 (1%) will be obligated at time of award, of which funding in the amount of $3,746,831 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(4) — international agreement between the U.S. and a foreign government or international organization. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-21-C-5434). (Awarded Sept. 23, 2021)

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