This federal contract award, valued at $76,000.00, was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service to Aerotek Aviation LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Oxford, North Carolina. The contract is for the overhaul of various aircraft components, including landing gear assemblies, brake assemblies, shock absorbers, actuators, wheel levers, pintle pins, and drag braces, for the Forest Service's fleet of Shorts Brothers SD3-60 Sherpa fixed-wing aircraft used in wildland fire management operations.
The contract was awarded on a sole-source basis under the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, as the Forest Service determined that Aerotek Aviation was the only responsible source capable of providing the required parts and services. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Aerotek Aviation holds a larger five-year, $2.9 million indefinite delivery contract with the Forest Service's National Interagency Fire Center, which serves as the primary vehicle for the agency to rapidly procure critical aviation spare parts for its Sherpa aircraft fleet.