Contract: Global Connections, $13.9M

Global Connections to Employment Inc., Pensacola, Fla., is awarded $13,868,343 for full food services and mess attendant services in support of Commander, Navy Region Southeast. The contract includes a one-year base period and four one-year option periods, which if all options are exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $69,860,697. Work will be performed as follows: full food services at Naval Air Station Pensacola (87%) and Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal School, Elgin Air Force Base, Fla. (5%); and mess attendant services Naval Construction Battalion Center, Gulfport, Miss. (8%). Work is expected to be completed by February 2022; if all options are exercised, work will be completed by February 2026. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,089,880 will be incrementally funded throughout the period of performance, and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was solicited as a sole-source requirement pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 8.7 under the Ability One program with one offer received. Naval Supply Systems Command, Fleet Logistics Center, Jacksonville, Fla., is the contracting activity (N68836-21-C-0003). (Source: DoD, 02/25/21)