U.S. department of defense announcement, 10 march 2004

The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Program Management Office/Washington announced March 10 (late afternoon, Washington time) the first tranche of awards of program management and construction contracts from the supplemental. The value of these awards is approximately dollars 250 million. Subsequent announcements of contracts for construction work are expected over the next several weeks.

Text of March 10 Announcement:

The Department of Defense announced today the award of seven contracts to provide dedicated support under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office (PMO). These contracts will provide dedicated program management and coordination support for all design and construction activities being performed for the PMO and within the six sectors of construction. The contracts awarded by sector are:

• Program Management Office Support: AECOM, a Los Angeles, California-based company, was awarded a dollars 21,610,501 contract to provide support to manage the activities of the six sector program management offices, ensure coordination among the sectors, standardization across the sectors, and report to the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Public Works and Water Sector Program Management Office Support: CH2M Hill/Parsons, a joint venture between CH2M Hill (Englewood, Colorado) and Parsons Water Infrastructure, Inc. (Pasadena, California) was awarded a dollars 28,494,672 contract to provide dedicated support to the Public Works and Water Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Transportation/Communications Sector Program Management Office Support: Berger/URS, a joint venture between the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) and URS Group, Inc. (San Francisco, California) was awarded a US$ 8,458,350.05 contract to provide dedicated support to the Transportation/Communication Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Security/Justice Sector Program Management Office Support: Berger/URS, a joint venture between the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) and URS Group, Inc. (San Francisco, California) was awarded a US$ 8,458,350.05 contract to provide dedicated support to the Security/Justice Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Buildings/Education/Health Sector Program Management Office Support: Berger/URS, a joint venture between the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) and URS Group, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.) was awarded a US$ 10,754,664.07 contract to provide dedicated support to the Buildings/Health Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Electrical Services Sector Program Management Office Support: Iraq Power Alliance Joint Venture, a joint venture between Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group (Reading, Pennsylvania) and Parsons-Brinkerhoff, Ltd. (United Kingdom) was awarded a US$ 43,361,340 contract to provide dedicated support to the Electrical Services Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

• Oil Sector Program Management Office Support: Foster Wheeler, a U.K.-based company was awarded a US$ 8,416,985 contract to provide dedicated support to the Oil Sector Program Management Office under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office.

For industry queries regarding these contracts, contact, in
Washington,
Brett Eaton: (571) 221-2165,
E-mail: eatonbd@army.pentagon.mil

For media queries regarding the contracting process, contact, in
Washington, Army Maj. Gary Tallman
U.S. Army: (703) 697-4314
E-mail: gary.tallman@hqda.army.mil

or Cynthia Smith: (703) 697-5344
E-mail: cynthia.smith@hqda.army.mil

For media queries regarding the requirements of these contracts, contact, in
Baghdad, Navy Capt. Bruce Cole
PMO-Baghdad, (914) 360-5766
E-mail: coleb@orha.centcom.mil

or, in Baghdad, Steven Susens
PMO-Baghdad, (914) 822-5316
E-mail: susenss@orha.centcom.mil