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Command
announces information
technology contract
Lockheed
Martin Information Systems & Global Services of Seabrook,
Md., has been awarded a contract to support U.S. Joint
Forces Command's information systems support services requirements.
By
USJFCOM Public Affairs
(NORFOLK,
VA.-- Aug. 28, 2007) - Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global
Services of Seabrook, Md. has been awarded a contract to
support U.S. Joint Forces Command's information systems
support services requirements.
Among
other things, the contract will support many of the command's
basic day-to-day information systems needs
including:
• network operations and systems support,
• customer training and support,
• video teleconferencing support
• database development and administration support.
The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity type contract,
under which task orders will be issued, consists of a one-year
base period and four additional one-year option periods.
The contract's base performance period runs from Oct.
5, 2007 through Oct. 4, 2008.
The base period ceiling of the contract is valued at $35.3
million and the total estimated value of the contract,
if all options are exercised, is estimated to be more than
$186 million over a five-year period.
Work will occur primarily at the command's Norfolk and
Suffolk facilities as well as support at Joint Personnel
Recovery Agency facilities at Ft. Belvoir, Va. and Fairchild
Air Force Base, Wash., the Joint Targeting Facility at
Dam Neck, Va., and the command's liaison officers at the
Pentagon and in Washington, D.C.
Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., U.S. Joint Forces Command
is one of nine unified commands in the Department of Defense.
Among his duties, the commander of USJFCOM oversees the
command's roles in transformation, experimentation, joint
training, interoperability and force provision as outlined
in the Department of Defense's Unified Command Plan.
The
Philadelphia Office of Fleet and Industrial Supply Center
Norfolk’s Contracting Department produced
the contract. Full and open competition procedures were
followed and six proposals were considered.
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