Bell-Boeing Awarded $68M for (M)V-22 Upgrades

Posted on: Aug. 24th, 2007 || Source: DoD | E-mail Article | Print Article

(DoD Contract Announcements) - Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $49,253,292 cost-plus-award-fee contract for non-recurring development of the V-22 Block C Environmental Control System Upgrade.

Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (98 percent), and Fort Worth, Texas (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured.
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-07-C-0040).
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Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $10,455,008 fixed-price-incentive-fee contract for all non-recurring engineering for the MV-22 aircraft, numbers 41 through 60, to be retrofitted to the Block B.

Contractor will incorporate all approved engineering change proposals associated with the upgrade of Block A aircraft to Block B configuration. Work will be performed in Ridley Park/Township, Pa. (50 percent); and Fort Worth, Texas (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in September 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-06-C-0296).
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The Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded an $8,110,070 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00019-03-C-3017) to exercise an option for engineering and logistics services in support of the MV-22 Total Life Cycle Logistics Support effort.

Services to be provided include planning and management;
- supportability analysis;
- training;
- support equipment;
- facilities management;
- computer resources;
- supportability test and evaluation;
- packaging, handling, storage and transportation of supplies;
- post-DD250 engineering and technical support;
- site/unit activation;
- on-site representative support;
- logistics life cycle cost;
- age exploration;
- configuration management;
- technical publications;
- and Naval Air Training and Operational Procedures Standardization (NATOPS) support.

Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (45 percent);
- Fort Worth, Texas (40 percent);
- and New River, N.C. (15 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
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