MIDDLE EAST — Parsons Corporation and Versar, Inc. have secured a major win overseas with a $75 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), delivering critical construction phase support services (CPSS) in the Middle East.

QATAR — KBR Services LLC has been awarded a $10.3 million contract modification under the U.S. Air Force's AFCAP V (Air Force Contract Augmentation Program) to continue base operations support in Qatar. This includes ongoing delivery of logistics, facility maintenance, and infrastructure services critical to sustaining U.S. operations in the region.

Qatar is a sovereign Arab emirate, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. A strait in the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from the nearby island kingdom of Bahrain.

A company out of  Fairfax, Virginia, was awarded an additional $10,954,545 to a previously awarded contract (W52P1J-18-C-0020) for project management, system engineering, hardware, and software installation, network and system administration, video teleconferencing installation/operation, visual information display system installation/operation, and configuration management in support of the U.S. Army.

Work will be performed in Qatar and Jordan, with an estimated completion date of March 14, 2023.

The U.S. Air Force awarded Readiness Management Support a task order under the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program (AFCAP) to provide Dining Facility (DFAC) Services at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in support of the US Air Force 379th Expeditionary Force Support Squadron (EFSS).

Work includes providing personnel, program planning, execution, vehicles, training, equipment, and other items necessary to support food services and DFAC equipment maintenance and repair. The total evaluated price is $48.M if all options are exercised.

Department of Defense has awarded a $94,207,693 firm-fixed-price contract for technical assistance support for the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 missile segment.

Work will be performed in Sweden, Kuwait, Poland, South Korea, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Orlando, Florida, with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2024.

The Department of State has awarded American International Contractors, Inc. (AICI) of Arlington, Virginia the design-build contract for the new U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar. Richärd Kennedy Architects of Phoenix, Arizona is the design architect. The 12-acre campus will provide a sustainable and state-of-the-art platform for U.S. diplomacy in Doha.

Since the start of the Department’s Capital Security Construction Program in 1999, the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has completed 168 new diplomatic facilities. OBO currently has more than 50 active projects either in design or under construction worldwide.

According to the Department of Defense (DoD), a company out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, had $116,821,426 to a previously awarded contract.

The contract will be for the continued support of critical operation, maintenance, and defense of Army communications, which supports the Army Operational Base Communications Information Systems and infrastructure in support of U.S. Central Command forces.

According to the Department of Defense (DoD), a company out of Dulles, Virginia, has been awarded $8,045,715 to previously awarded firm-fixed price contract FA4890-17-C-0014 for persistent surveillance and dissemination system of systems and mission video distribution system services.

According to the Department of Defense a contractor out of Germantown, Maryland, was awarded a $200,114,670 modification (0003 53) to contract W52P1J-12-G-0028 for maintenance, supply, and transportation logistics support services for Army prepositions stocks.

Work will be performed in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; and Doha, Qatar, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 2, 2020.

According to the Department of Defense, they awarded a maximum $75,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, 192-day bridge contract for maintenance, repair, and operations support in the Central Command Area of Responsibility.

Locations of performance are Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, with a June 1, 2019, performance completion date. 

According to the Department of Defense (DoD), the contractor $7,940,661 to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for Persistent Surveillance and Dissemination System of Systems Mission Video Distribution System services.

Work will be performed at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina; and Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2022. Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds are being obligated at the time of award. 

According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the contractor was awarded a $9,000,000 contract (Saudi Arabia; Qatar; Bahrain; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates; and Oman) contract for labor, materials, supplies, and equipment required for a full range of professional architect-engineer services.

Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of May 31, 2022.