ITT/Exelis communications contract Award

ITT/Exelis Awarded $127m OMDAC-SWACA Contract

Exelis Systems Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo., is being awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a maximum value of $127,150,517 for the operation, maintenance and defense of Army communications in Southwest Asia and Central Asia. 
 
Work will be performed in Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq and Qatar. Fiscal 2013 Operation and Maintenance funds in the amount of $30,000,000 are being obligated on this award. 
 
The bid was solicited through the Internet, with five bids received. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., is the contracting activity (W91RUS-13-C-0006).


 "We were notified early this morning that we are the winners of the OMDAC-SWACA contract. Below is an excerpt from the notification."

�Congratulations! Your offer, contained in Exelis� Final Proposal Revision (FPR), dated 17 January 2013, in response to solicitation W91RUS-09-R-0030 for Operations, Maintenance, and Defense of Army Communications in Southwest Asia and Central Asia (OMDAC-SWACA) with a Phase-in Period, an 11-month Base Period, two one-year Option Periods, and two one-year Award Terms is hereby accepted.

It is anticipated that the Phase-In Period will commence on 1 June 2013. The OMDAC-SWACA requirement is to provide operation and maintenance (O&M) support of communications equipment and information systems under the purview of the Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), 160th Signal Brigade and its subordinate units in Southwest Asia (SWA) and Central Asia.�