Wed, Jun 30, 2010
One Contract Largest Ever Awarded By FAA To A Small
Business
The FAA announced Tuesday that Metron Aviation of Dulles, VA,
and Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, VA, received contracts as the
final part of a set of landmark awards to perform engineering work
that will help bring NextGen online. The $1.15 billion contract
awarded to Metron Aviation for 10 years is one of the largest ever
awarded by the FAA to a small business. The announcement was made
at the FAA's Small Business Conference at the Mike Monroney
Aeronautical Center.
"Small businesses generate some of our country's best ideas,"
said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "The rollout
of NextGen will give small businesses the opportunity to serve on
the leading edge of this major transportation initiative."
The two contracts are the last of six awarded under an umbrella
portfolio called System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020). SE-2020 was
designed to encourage small business participation. It has a
ceiling of $6.5 billion, making it the largest set of awards in the
agency's history.
"Partnership is absolutely critical to our success in NextGen,"
said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. "With these awards, we're
partnering with some of the most qualified companies in the
aviation community."
The work performed by Metron Aviation will complement work done
by Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT under SE2020 contracts awarded
last month. The firms will conduct large-scale demonstrations to
see how NextGen concepts, procedures and technologies can be
integrated into the current system. The $711 million contract
awarded to Booz Allen Hamilton for 10 years follows the first
SE2020 contract awarded to CSSI, Inc., in April. Both companies
will evaluate emerging procedures and technologies and perform
systems engineering to determine the best way to deploy the NextGen
initiatives on a wide scale.
SE2020 represents an innovative contracting vehicle that
streamlines NextGen funding across the FAA, allowing work to be
completed in an efficient and cost effective manner.
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