Defense Supply Center In Columbus News

General Electric Co./GE Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio, is being awarded a $16,500,000 (3-year base, estimated) fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for marine gas turbine engines for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. This contract is for a 3-year base contract with two 3-year option periods. Performance completion date is expected to be Feb. 20, 2007. Contract funds will not expire this fiscal year. There was one proposal solicitation, and one responded. The Defense Supply Center Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, is the contracting activity (SP0760-04-D-9707).

FDGM, the Northern Virginia subsidiary of Italian engine manufacturer Isotta Fraschini, has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract to supply spare parts items for the non-magnetic diesel engines in the U.S. Navy mine sweeper fleet. Managed by Defense Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio, the contract also includes spare parts items for Defense Logistics Agencies in Richmond and Philadelphia, as well as the Navy Inventory Control Point (NAVICP) in Mechanicsburg, PA. The FDGM contract also includes spare parts items coded for stock replenishment for the mine sweeper fleet. This contract is part of the implementation of a new government transportation management system currently expected in place on or about July 1, 2003.