Navy Contract – July 15, 2015
Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Plymouth, Minnesota, is being awarded a $12,404,535 cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price basic ordering agreement to provide the Navy a contractual vehicle for prototype fabrication, pre-production, integration, testing, evaluation and development of chain gun weapon systems hardware, associated gun control system software and ammunition. The basic ordering agreement will also provide for design and fabrication of ammunition all-up cartridges and components, and any associated support materials and equipment in support of qualification, evaluations, performance, and test for chain gun systems. Work will be performed in Mesa, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by July 2020. No funds are being obligated at this time of award. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a)(2) – satisfying a requirement for unique supplies available from only one source. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00178-15-G-0002).