14 to vie for $500M in Navy purchases

Fourteen government contractors, including nine small businesses, will share a potential $500 million Navy supply contract for IT equipment and services.

Each company has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price supply contract for the procurement of commercial-off-the-shelf, network and communications equipment, and related incidental support services, the Defense Department announced March 22.

Each contractor will be awarded $7,140 at the time of award. But with contract options exercised, the cumulative value would reach the estimated half-billion dollar mark by March 2017.

The contract winners are:

• ACG Systems Inc., Annapolis, Md.
• Atlantic Diving Supply Inc., Virginia Beach, Va.
• Blue Tech Inc., San Diego, Calif.
• CDW Government LLC, Vernon Hills, Ill.
• Global Technology Resources Inc., Denver, Colo.
• Iron Bow Technologies LLC, Chantilly, Va.
• Marshall Communications Corp., Ashburn, Va.
• Mercom Inc., Pawleys Island, S.C.
• Mutual Telecom Services Inc., Needham, Mass.
• Science Applications International Corp., McLean, Va.
• Scientific Research Corp., Atlanta, Ga.
• Strategic Communications LLC, Louisville, Ky.
• Tribalco LLC, Bethesda, Md.
• World Wide Technology Inc., St. Louis.

Work will be performed at the companies’ home sites.

The multiple-award contracts were competitively procured by full and open competition via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center e-Commerce Central website and the Federal Business Opportunities website, with 18 offers received.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C. is the contracting activity.