CONTRACT AWARD: $10M for construction at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
URS Group, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, is being awarded $10,819,000 for firm-fixed-price task order JM02 under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62742-09-D-1174) for seawater reverse osmosis treatment recapitalization plant n at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. The work to be performed provides for the design and construction of the removal and replacement of four of the six existing reverse osmosis process units (trains) and accompanying process equipment in the Windward Desalination Plant, the source water for Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.
Design and construction include construction sequencing to maintain system operations throughout, the addition of concrete piers and access platforms, connection to the existing seawater supply header, installation of transfer pumps, installation of a minimum of five pre-engineered equipment enclosures, installation of pre-engineered metal canopy over all new equipment, and extension of site electrical supply and utilities.
Work will be performed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is expected to be completed by July 2016. Fiscal 2014 working capital funds (Navy) in the amount of $10,819,000 are being obligated on this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One proposal was received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity.
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