Contract: PowerSecure, $8.3M

PowerSecure, Inc., Wake Forest, N.C., has been awarded an $8,300,000 firm-fixed-price contract to repair and relocate an 115 kV transmission line. Contractor will furnish all plant, materials, labor, equipment and operations in connection with the removal of the existing 115 kV transmission line and wooden poles from the Valparaiso substation to the main base substation. The installation of a new 115 kV transmission line will be rerouted overhead, where possible, to avoid the clear zone and routed underground only where not possible to avoid the clear zone. Work will be performed at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and is expected to be completed by Oct. 10, 2015. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, with three offers received. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $8,300,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Test Center, Eglin Air Force Base, is the contracting activity (FA2823-14-C-4011). (Source: DoD, 09/24/14)