Contract: L-3 Vertex, $55.6M

L-3 Communications Systems Field Support, Vertex Aerospace, LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $55,627,456 firm-fixed-price, cost reimbursable modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity requirements contract (N00019-11-D-0010) to exercise an option for aircraft maintenance and logistical life cycle support for 54 C-12 aircraft for the U.S. Navy (48) and the U.S. Marine Corps (6). Work will be performed in Corpus Christi, Texas (46 percent); Patuxent River, Md. (8 percent); Manama, Bahrain (5.5 percent); Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (5.5 percent); Atsugi, Japan (5.5 percent); New Orleans, La. (4 percent); Kadena, Japan ( 3.7 percent); Yuma, Ariz.(3.7 percent); Iwakuni, Japan (3.7 percent); Beaufort, S.C. (3.5 percent); New River, N.C. (3.5 percent); Manassas, Va. (2 percent); Miramar, Calif. (1.8 percent); Futenma, Japan (1.8 percent); and Misawa, Japan (1.8 percent). Work is expected to be completed in September 2014. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activities. (Source: DoD, 09/27/13)