BriarTek Wins Navy Deal
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
BriarTek Inc., Alexandria, Va., is being awarded a $6,157,997
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide ship-check, installation and training of
man-overboard indicators (MOBI) on 27 Navy ships. Contractor will provide
engineering and technical support to install and validate all MOBI services. Each
man-overboard transmitter shall be backward compatible to existing MOBI systems
already in use in the Navy fleet, and shall be able to broadcast a unique code,
identifying the specific transmitter that has been activated to eliminate confusion
during events when multiple individuals fall overboard. Work will be performed in
Norfolk, Va. (50 percent) and San Diego, Calif. (50 percent), and is expected to be
completed by April 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. The contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface
Warfare Center, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity (N61331-06-C-0004).