Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Contract: Webb, $9.2M

Webb Electric Co., Pensacola, Fla., has been awarded a $9,220,349 firm-fixed-price contract to repair airfield lighting system and to add/repair airfield lighting vault. This contract provides for expanding the existing lighting vault building and update the existing lighting vault by replacing the existing regulators and generator with new ones. The existing pad mounted transformers will be replaced with new ones and the electrical service to the existing lighting vault will be replaced with a new 480Y/277 volt three-phase four-wire service; all the new regulators will operate with an input voltage of 480 volts. The existing regulators must remain in operation until the new ones are installed. Project also consists of upgrading the existing airfield wiring and testing of the existing regulators for Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB). Work will be performed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., with an expected completion date of Sept. 30, 2015. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, with four offers received. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $9,220,349 are being obligated at the time of award. The 319th Contracting Flight, Grand Forks Air Force Base is the contracting activity (FA4659-14-C-C011). (Source: DoD, 09/30/14)