The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) awarded a $5.4 million single-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to Bennett Aerospace Inc., a certified 8(a) small business and economically disadvantaged women-owned small business (EDWOSB). This 5-year IDIQ contract covers a wide range of research, development, and evaluation tasks supporting the Army and Department of Defense's civil and military missions. The contracted services include field data collection, laboratory research, computational modeling, medical monitoring, training, operation and maintenance of research facilities, preparation of reports, and compilation of electronic databases.
Under this IDIQ contract, USACE has issued two task orders to Bennett Aerospace. The first is a $104,544.55 fixed-price level-of-effort task order for a project titled "Understanding the Environment as a Threat", which supports ERDC's research in areas such as synthetic biology, rare earth element processing, environmental genomics, and integrated water resource management. The second is an $87,802.56 fixed-price level-of-effort task order for emerging contaminant testing and environmental genetic/genomic testing services, with the place of performance in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bennett Aerospace has also been awarded positions on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract and the 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) for IT services.
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