The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $15,879,671 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for design agent and technical engineering services for the AN/USQ-82(V) family of systems consisting of the data multiplex system, fiber optic data multiplex system, and gigabit ethernet data multiplex system. As the AN/USQ-82(V) design agent, Boeing will provide advanced and highly specialized technical engineering to assist with system sustainment; cybersecurity enhancement; configuration management; development, qualification and integration of systems; testing; and technical support to manufacturing and repair vendors. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $82,394,253. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach (69 percent); Arlington, Va. (19 percent); Pascagoula, Miss. (5 percent); Bath, Maine (5 percent); Seattle, Wash. (1 percent); and Philadelphia, Pa. (1 percent), and is expected to be completed by May 2019. Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy); fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy); and foreign military sales funding in the amount of $6,499,675 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (93 percent); and the Republic of Korea, Commonwealth of Australia and State of Japan (7 percent), under the Foreign Military Sales program. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1), only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-18-C-4103). (Source: DoD, 06/05/18)
