Berger Cummins Joint Venture, Washington, D.C., was awarded a firm-fixed-price, option-eligible contract with a cumulative maximum value of $7,976,129 to provide 30 megawatts of temporary power at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Performance location will be Afghanistan, and funding will be from fiscal 2013 operations and maintenence, Army funding. Eight bids solicited and five bid offers received. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Philadelphia District, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.

US Army Corps of Engineers Worldwide Power Contingency Response contract, Berger-Cummins was also awarded a second contract back in 2011 to provide dedicated support for Forward Operating Base Power Plants in Afghanistan. Berger-Cummins current Afghanistan project locations include Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City; Camp Marmal in Mazir-e-Sharif; Forward Operating Base Konduz; Multi-National Base Tarin Kot; Kandahar Airfield, New Kabul Compound and Pol-e-Charki Brigade in Kabul. Supporting Berger/Cummins forward presence at various bases, they maintain a fully staffed program management office in Kabul which provides administrative and logistics support and serves as a platform to liaise with 249th Engineer Battalion and other US Military and Government agencies throughout Afghanistan.

About Berger/Cummins

After forging a strong relationship working together in southwestern Afghanistan in 2003-04, The Louis Berger Group and Cummins Power Generation formed the Berger-Cummins Joint Venture. Today we provide a synergistic team that combines one of the world’s premiere engineering and program management firms with the largest and most diversified designer and manufacturer of engines and generator set equipment worldwide. We take tremendous pride in working successfully in harsh, dangerous environments and exceeding client expectations on the toughest assignments.

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