10 smalls win $250M C5ISR contract with Navy

Ten small business have won a $249.6 million task order contract with the U.S. Navy for command and control enterprise information services.

The companies are:

• Atlas Technologies Inc.
• Ausgar Technologies Inc.
• By Light, Professional IT Services Inc.
• Cambridge International Systems Inc.
• Case LLC
• DKW Communications Inc
• Dynamic Network Enterprises
• KinetX Inc.
• Professional Software Engineering Inc.
• Trace Systems Inc.

The cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, which have provisions for fixed-price-incentive and firm-fixed-price task orders, are performance-based, and have a base value of $49.9 million.

The companies will compete to provide transport and computing infrastructure support services including services and solutions associated with the full system lifecycle support.

This includes research, development, test, evaluation, production and fielding of sustainable, secure, survivable, and interoperable command, control, communication, computers, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C5ISR), information operations, enterprise information services and space capabilities, the Defense Department said in a release.

Work will take place worldwide, and is expected to be completed by April 2014, or April 2018 with options.