Among the many military construction awards that are being expedited as the end of the financial year of Sept. 30 approaches are two with a Guam connection.
Eleven companies were awarded a one billion “indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award-construction contract for new design, construction, supervision, equipment, material and labor for the renovation, repair, and new construction of facility construction projects at various government locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Northwest area of operations,” according to a Sept. 26 release CHamoru Standard Time from the U.S. Department of War.
Among them is a joint venture between a Guam company and a construction company headquartered in Missouri.
A&R Pacific-Garney Federal II is a joint venture between A&R Pacific – a certified Economically Disadvantaged Small Disadvantaged Business, Woman-Owned Small Business, and HUBZone business based in Guam and Garney Federal of St. Louis, Mo., which specializes in water and wastewater infrastructure. The same JV was one of 10 companies awarded a one billion MAC contract in 2023 by NAVFAC Southwest, with work ongoing until 2031.
According to Garney Federal, the JV “specializes in water, wastewater, and infrastructure construction projects for federal and local agencies.”
A&R Corp., which does business as A&R Pacific, is a licensed contractor in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The vice president at A&R is Shoja Rezvani, who is also the founder of ART Constructors LLC, a precast concrete manufacturer in Guam.
Work will be completed no later than September 2028, according to the release.
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Northwest made the awards, with 31 proposals received for the MAC contract via sam.gov.
In related news, Trident Maritime Systems of Kingsford, Mich. was awarded the same date a $21.25 million “hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity supply contract” in support of hull and deck machinery systems on Navy ships. It is estimated that work will be performed at the contractor's facility, (80%; and various U.S. government locations, 20%.
The nine locations include Tamuning in Guam, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Changi in Singapore and Sasebo in Japan according to the release. The work is expected to be completed by September 2031, and was awarded by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division in Philadelphia, Penn. mbj
