Contract Award: $8.6 for the Installation of Fiber Optic Cable at Jordanian Military Installation
According to the Department od Defense (DoD) — Technical Communications Solutions Corp., Swampscott, Massachusetts, was awarded a $8,622,068 firm-fixed-price contract for the installation of fiber optic cable which will satisfy the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) fiber optic-last mile (FO-LM) and fiber optic-long haul (FO-LH) requirements, and shall include the installation, testing and sustainment activities required for the JAF FO-LM and the FO-LH cable links.
Work will be performed in Jordan, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 6, 2016.
One bid was solicited with one received. Fiscal 2015 other procurement funds in the amount of $8,622,068 are being obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Div D, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is the contracting activity (W91CRB-15-C-5000).
Brief History
Last year a Court of Federal Claims judge vacated this U.S. Army contract to provide fiber optic infrastructure upgrades for the Jordanian Armed Forces, stating the TCSC had not met its technical requirements for “self-performance,” which would leave an unacceptably large amount of work in the hands of subcontractors.
TCSC had proposed to have a local subcontractor do the cabling work, which went beyond the 50 percent limit on subcontract work in the solicitation, they argued that they were the only bidder who had proposed to do at least some of the installation work in Jordan.
The award was meant for the lowest priced technically acceptable proposal, and the Army found — after entering discussions with bidders and receiving changes to their initially unacceptable bids — that all bids were technically acceptable, awarding the contract to TCSC in December as the lowest-priced proposal, at $8.6 million.
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