ARMY

DS Federal Inc., Rockville, MD (W81XWH-16-D-0003); Eagle Applied Sciences LLC, San Antonio, TX (W81XWH-16-D-0004); Laulima Government Solutions LLC, Orlando, FL (W81XWH-16-D-0005); One Federal Solution, Waldorf, MD (W81XWH-16-D-0006); TCONNEX Inc., McLean, VA (W81XWH-16-D-0007); and Venesco & Hyperion Joint Venture, Chantilly, VA (W81XWH-16-D-0008) were the small businesses among the companies awarded a $49,800,000 IDIQ shared contract for support service at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, MD. Bids were solicited via the internet with 14 received. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Frederick, MD is the contracting activity.

Fast Track Drugs & Biologics LLC, Gaithersburg, MD was awarded a $7,019,015 cost-plus-fixed-fee incrementally funded contract with options to develop a new anti-malarial drug. Bids were solicited via the internet with two received. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Frederick, MD is the contracting activity (W81XWH-16-C-0002).

U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND

Three teams and eight individual airlines, all members of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program, have been awarded IDIQ fixed-price with economic price adjustment contracts to provide international airlift services. The total cumulative face value of the contracts is $357,053,176.

The teams with small business members are:

• Patriot Team, Tulsa, OK, which includes ABX Air, Wilmington, OH, Air Transportation International Inc., Wilmington, OH, Kalitta Air LLC, Ypsilanti, MI; and Omni Air International Inc., Tulsa, OK, $99,891,750 (HTC711-16-D-CC12).

• Miami Air Team, Miami, FL, which includes Miami Air International Inc., Miami, FL and MN Airlines LLC, dba Sun Country Airlines, Mendota Heights, MN, $4,446,065 (HTC711-16-D-CC11)

Individual small business airlines include: National Air Cargo Group, Inc. dba National Airlines, Orlando, FL, $4,328,185 (HTC711-16-D-CC15); and Tatonduk Outfitters dba Everts Air Cargo, Fairbanks, AK, $4,550 (HTC711-16-D-CC18). Work will be performed at worldwide locations. The contracting activity is the U.S. Transportation Command Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, IL.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY

Network Management Resources Inc., Chantilly, VA is being awarded a $15,945,835 modification (P00060) to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to exercise an option, increasing the total contract value from $54,981,299 to $70,927,134. Under this modification, the contractor will provide global classified and unclassified video conferencing services, collaboration services, customer facing business application services, and end user training. The Missile Defense Agency, Schriever AFB, CO is the contracting activity (H95001-12-C-0001).

NAVY

Mercury Defense Systems Inc., Cypress, CA is being awarded a $41,802,436 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for 200 Miniaturized I/J Band Digital Radio Frequency Memory Modulators (Mini DRFMs) and their associated repairs and evaluations. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to FAR 6.302-1. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, CA is the contracting activity (N68936-16-D-0003).

DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY

Allan Baker Inc., doing business as Korect Optical, Louisville, KY has been awarded a maximum $30,000,000 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for various optical lenses for military services using the electronic catalog program. This was a competitive acquisition, with two responses received. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA (SPE2DE-16-D-0001).

Excel Garment Manufacturing LTD., El Paso, TX has been awarded a maximum $8,426,077 modification (P00111) exercising the second one-year option period of a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-14-D-1006) with four one-year option periods for coats and trousers for various types of uniforms. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, PA.

Mathews Assoc. Inc., Sanford, FL (SPMELX-16-D-0009), and Bren-Tronics Inc., Commack, NY (SPMELX-16-D-0010), will share a $23,167,028 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under solicitation SPM7LX-09-R-0057 for lithium-ion storage batteries. These contracts were sole source acquisitions using justification 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1). The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Columbus, OH.

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