AWARD
28 -- F135 Low Rate Initial Production Lot 4 Advance Acquisition Contract
- Notice Date
- 9/29/2009
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 336412
— Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, NAVAIR HQ, Building 2272, 47123 Buse Road Unit IPT, Patuxent River, Maryland, 20670, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00019-09-C-0015
- Point of Contact
- Lisa L Bregman, Phone: (703) 601-5519, Estelle M. Staine, Phone: (703) 601-5583
- E-Mail Address
-
lisa.bregman@jsf.mil, estelle.staine@jsf.mil
(lisa.bregman@jsf.mil, estelle.staine@jsf.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- 1300125993
- Award Date
- 5/11/2009
- Awardee
- Pratt & Whitney Military Engines, 400 Main Street<br />, East Hartford, Connecticut 06108-0968, United States
- Award Amount
- $113,096,750
- Description
- The sole source, cost plus incentive/award fee Lot 4 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) advance acquisition contract awarded to Pratt & Whitney (P&W), Military Engines authorized the expenditure of long lead funding for components, parts and material associated with the production of 12 Air Force Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) Propulsion Systems, 14 Marine Corps Short Take-off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) Propulsion Systems, 4 Navy Carrier Variant (CV) Propulsion Systems, 1 CTOL Propulsion System for the Royal Netherlands (NL) Air Force and 1 STOVL Propulsion System for the United Kingdom (UK) Royal Navy. This contract was awarded to P&W, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2304(c) (1), as they are the only source capable of producing and sustaining the required quantity of propulsion systems for LRIP Lot 4, without causing an unacceptable delay in USAF, USMC and USN Initial Operating Capabilities (IOC) of approximately two years. The issuance of a cost plus incentive/award fee contract is justified at this time for the following reasons: LRIP design concurrency tied to System Development and Demonstration propulsion system design instability; delay in manufacturing line matur ity due to the design instability; and the unavailability of SDD and LRIP cost actuals prohibits realistic estimates of probable production costs that would be expected to include production efficiency improvements and affordability investments currently being leveraged by the contractor to drive down production costs. Therefore, the issuance of a cost plus incentive/award fee contract (with cost, schedule and performance incentives) is considered acceptable at this time, to adequetely motivate contractor performance, until manufacturing processes mature and LRIP cost actuals are available to allow a fair and reasonable price determination for a fixed price type contract.
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- Record
- SN01974900-W 20091001/090930001311-f8c602950eaf97bb6f4bb69e4a0d9d85 (fbodaily.com)
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