Contract: Whitesell-Green, $8.5M

Whitesell-Green Inc., Pensacola, Fla., is being awarded an $8,501,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of Triton Mission Control Facility at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. The work to be performed provides for construction of a low-rise shielded steel frame, reinforced concrete masonry unit mission control facility with standing seam metal roof and concrete foundation, strip footing and deep wall masonry foundation slab on grade. The facility will be located adjacent to an existing Triton facility and include primary and redundant Mission Control System (MCS) modules, a server room, mission planning and brief/debrief rooms and a secure equipment vault. The new building will be connected to the existing building via a new enclosure around the existing exterior stair of that facility and a new corridor. The MCS components in the new facilities will be independently shielded and constructed as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility including electromagnetic interference shielded space. This facility will provide Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection features. The contract also contains two unexercised options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative contract value to $8,618,000. Work will be performed in Jacksonville and is expected to be completed by July 2017. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website with four proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, Jacksonville, is the contracting activity (N69450-16-C-1103). (Source: DoD, 09/27/16)