ICELAND — Tysons, Virginia-based M.C. Dean Inc. has landed a $15.5 million U.S. Navy contract to build a secure working area inside the renovated P-8A operations and fleet support facilities at Keflavik Air Station, Iceland.

POC - According to the Department of Defense a company out of McLean, Virginia, was awarded a $15,188,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of fuel cell and maintenance hangars.

Work will be performed in Jordan, with an estimated completion date of Feb. 8, 2026. Fiscal 2023 military construction, Army funds in the amount of $15,188,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, is the contracting activity (W912ER-23-C-0010). 

(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded a $16,960,148 contract for architecture-engineering services for constructing a new concrete fixed single-deck submarine repair pier at Polaris Point Submarine Base, Guam.

Work will be performed in Piti, Guam, and is expected to be completed by September 2024. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.

(POC) — Highlighting the deep economic, political, and cultural ties between the United States and Brazil, U.S. Consul General Jacqueline Ward joined Mayor Eduardo Paes to break ground on the new U.S. Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro.

Located on a 3.7-acre parcel in the downtown neighborhood of Cidade Nova, the new campus is envisioned as a reflection of Rio de Janeiro as a city in the rainforest, cradled between mountains and the ocean.

(POC) — A global building materials manufacturer and its subsidiary pleaded guilty today to a one-count criminal information charging them with conspiring to provide material support and resources in Northern Syria from 2013 to 2014 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations. Immediately following the defendants’ guilty pleas, U.S. District Judge sentenced the defendants to terms of probation and to pay financial penalties, including criminal fines and forfeiture, totaling $777.78 million.

Department of Defense has awarded an $18,028,631 firm-fixed-price task order (N4008422F4571) under previously-awarded design-build / design-bid-build, indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, unrestricted multiple-award construction contract N40084-21-D-0079 for repairs to the synchro lift pier, Facility 458, at U.S. Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia.

Highlighting the deepening ties of friendship between the United States and Qatar, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian P. McKeon and Chargé d’Affaires Ian McCary broke ground today on a new U.S. Embassy in Qatar’s capital city. They were joined by Director of Qatar’s American Affairs Department Ambassador Essa Mohamed Al-Mannai and other distinguished guests.

DOD awarded a company out of McLean, Virginia $37,010,368 contract award for the construction of a new munitions support facility.

Work will be performed in Azraq, Jordan, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 12, 2024. Fiscal 2018 military construction, defense-wide funds in the amount of $37,010,368 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District, is the contracting activity (W912ER-22-C-0015).

DOD awarded a combined $10,000,000 modification to previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts.

The modification provides additional capacity to order construction services at Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia. Work will be performed in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, and is expected to be completed by Jan. 23, 2023.

Dept of State — At a historic groundbreaking ceremony highlighting the enduring bilateral friendship and partnership between the United States and Nigeria, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu joined U.S. Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard and U.S. Consul General Claire Pierangelo on Thursday to officially mark the beginning of construction of a new, modern U.S. Consulate General in Lagos.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District has awarded a $34,030,929 contract for the design-bid-build construction of an electrical system upgrade at the Naval Support Activity in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Work will be performed in Manama, Bahrain, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 19, 2024.

Department of Defense awarded a company out of Fort Worth, Texas a $111,669,489 hybrid (firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials) contract for operations, maintenance and repair of real property, maintenance and repair of installed building equipment and equipment-in-place, minor construction, ground maintenance, snow/ice/sand removal, pest control, environmental service and refuse removal in support of the installations within the United States Army Garrison-Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.