5 Firms Awarded $400M IDIQ Contract For Design and Production of Power Supplies

Espey Manufacturing and Electronics Corp. Saratoga Springs, New York; Communications & Power Industries LLC, Beverly, Massachusetts; Crane Electronics Inc., Fort Walton Beach, Florida; SC Electronics Inc., Azle, Texas and Dave’s Engineering LLC, doing business as DE Design Works, Chesterfield, Missouri, are sharing an estimated $400,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under solicitation SPRWA1-19-R-0007 for design and production of low voltage to high voltage power supplies. This was a competitive acquisition with five responses received. These are five-year base contracts with one five-year option period. Locations of performance are New York, Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, and Missouri, with Sept. 14, 2025, ordering period end date. Using military service is Air Force. The type of appropriation is fiscal 2020 through 2025 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia.

Bell Textron Inc Awarded a $272,161,641 For Production and Delivery Of 8 UH-1Y & 4 AH-1Z Helicopters

Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, is awarded a $272,161,641 fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract for the production and delivery of eight UH-1Y and four AH-1Z helicopters for the government of the Czech Republic. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (60%); and Amarillo, Texas (40%), and is expected to be completed in November 2023. Foreign Military Sales funds in the amount of $272,161,641 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 2304(f)(2)(e). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N00019-20-C-0061).

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. manufactures and distributes helicopters and tilt rotor aircraft. The Company markets its products to commercial, military, and municipal customers. (bloomberg.com)