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URS Corporation has won a position on a potential $585 million contract to design and build healthcare facilities for the U.S. Army in domestic and overseas locations.

The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains one base year and four option years, URS said Tuesday. Under the Medical Repair and Renewal Program, the company will compete for task orders to help install and maintain equipment and systems at the medical centers.

Gary Jandegian - URS President - infrastructure and environment business

“This contract expands upon the relationship that URS has established with the military in performing medical facilities design and build, starting with the renovation of the Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center following Hurricane Katrina and, recently, the design-build of a new medical education training complex at Fort Sam Houston in Texas,” said Gary Jandegian, president of URS’ infrastructure and environment business.

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The Louis Berger Group has won a $100 million contract to design and engineer construction projects at embassies and consulate sites for the U.S. State Department. LBG signed the five-year task-order-based contract with the department’s bureau of overseas buildings operations in March, the company said Thursday.

The company has worked with the bureau and its predecessor foreign buildings operations organization since the early 1990s.
“We’re excited to be working with OBO as a prime contractor again,” said Jeffery Willis, senior vice president of LBG’s regional program and construction management business unit.

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SOS International announced today that it was selected out of 22 competing firms by the government of Iraq to serve as the exclusive provider of logistics, construction and life support services at four military facilities in Iraq. The sites, located in Besmaya, Balad, Taji and Um Qasr, are currently managed by the United States government under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

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