URS awarded support contract for USMC MRAP vehicles
URS Technical Services, Inc, Stafford, Va., is being awarded a $45,501,715 time and material contract for the procurement of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Contract Support Services.
The MRAP vehicles are armored vehicles with blast resistant underbodies designed to protect the crew from mine blasts, fragmentary, and direct fire weapons. This contract will procure services to support the MRAP program in the following areas: program management, acquisition, systems engineering, test and evaluation, logistics, safety, quality, and administrative support.
Work will be performed in Stafford, Va., and work is expected to be completed by the end of July 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was procured on a sole source basis.
The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity (M67854-11-F-5097).
Source: US Department of Defense
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