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    Dec 1, 2011

    Forty-eight companies will vie for almost $6 billion in task orders as the Air Force unveils two indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity firm-fixed-price contracts for a variety of support services.

    Twenty-nine companies have been named to two contractor pools worth a total of $4.7 billion: a full and open competition pool for large businesses and a small business pool. Both call for management and professional support services, studies, analyses and evaluations, and engineering and technical services, according to a Nov. 29 Defense Department announcement.

    The task orders call for assistance for facilities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, including Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Aeronautical Systems Center, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Institute of Technology, and National Air and Space Intelligence Command.

    The Acquisition Management Integration Center in Newport News, Va., is the contracting activity.

    The large business awards go to:

    Booz Allen Hamilton
    CACI International Inc.
    Computer Sciences Corp.
    Cubic Applications Inc.
    Jacobs Technology Inc./Tybrin Corp.
    L-3 Services Inc.
    MacAulay-Brown Inc.
    Science Applications International Corp.
    Spectrum Comm Inc.
    The Analysis Group, L.L.C.
    USFalcon Inc.

    Small business awards go to:

    Apogee Solutions Inc.
    Avanco International Inc.
    Blue Force L.L.C.
    Catapult Consultants L.L.C.
    ComCon Technologies Inc.
    D3 Air and Space Operations
    Decypher-PSI
    ITility L.L.C.
    Object CTalk Inc.
    Phantom Eagle L.L.C.
    Pioneer Technologies Corp.
    Sawdey Solution Services Inc.
    ZCSolutions L.L.C.
    B3H Corp.
    Insignia Technology Services L.L.C.
    Prevailance Inc.
    Quantell Inc.
    R&K Enterprise Solutions

    Under the second multiple-award contract, 19 companies will compete for a total maximum of $950 million in task orders.

    These task orders also will provide support in the areas of management and professional support services, studies, analyses and evaluations; and engineering and technical services at the named facilities at Wright-Patterson AFB.

    The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is the contracting activity on this contract.

    Contractors are:

    Array Information Technology Inc.
    BTAS Inc.
    Centech Group Inc.
    DCS Corp.
    Enterprise Information Services, Inc.
    ERC Inc.
    Intelligent Decisions
    Innovative Technologies Corp.
    Leader Communications Inc.
    Linquest Corp.
    MCR Federal L.L.C.
    National Technologies Associates Inc.
    Oasis Systems
    Paragon Technology Group Inc.
    Peerless-MacB J.V.
    PESystems Inc.
    Quantech Services Inc.
    Spectrum Comm Inc.
    Sumaria

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    Dec 28, 2011

    It has been an interesting month of December.  For 2012, GovPartners will be releasing bi-weekly news updates from around the world which may be of interest to current (and potential) government contractors.  Below is a top-ten list of the news-worthy material which have dominated the headlines for the month of December:

    10.          NATO vows to continue to carry out nighttime raids that target suspected insurgents.  The partnership with Afghan forces will also continue to increase as well, with Afghan special forces now take part in nearly all night raids.

    9.            U.S. increasingly reliant on the three transit routes which snake through Central Asia, Russia and the Caucasus to ship non-military supplies and fuel into Afghanistan as the relationship between Washington and Pakistan continues to deteriorate.

    8.            General John Allen reiterated that “the continued work beyond ’14 in terms of development of economic capability and governance will continue.  We will also see, probably, a U.S. military capability beyond ’14.”

    7.            The U.S. military may have withdrawn from Iraq, but international companies continue to pour into the oil-rich country.  Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corp. signed a final $17.2 billion, 25-year contract with the country.  Some $12.8 billion would be spent on infrastructure and $4.4 billon on construction of a liquefied natural gas facility.

    6.            Iraq cabinet okays 2012 budget at $100 billion.  The new budget forecasts total government expenditures at $68 billion, including $31.6 billion set for investment spending in 2012.

    5.            U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, paid a visit to the country in mid-December and expressed their confidence and support in Libya’s transition to democracy.

    4.            Afghanistan's government signed a deal with China's state-owned National Petroleum Corporation, allowing it to become the first foreign company to exploit the country's oil and natural gas reserves.  The deal, initially valued at $700 million, could end up being more than ten times this amount if more reserves are discovered and developed.

    3.            The Department of Defense’s $662 billion budget for 2012 was approved by the U.S. Congress.  The lawmakers agreed on $518 billion for Pentagon operations and about $115 billion to cover the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    2.            Kim Jong-Il passes away, names his 27-28 (depending on source) year old son, Kim Jong-un as his successor.

    1.            Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route in the Gulf where more than 1/3rd of the world’s ship-borne oil passes. 

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