Space

September 14, 2012

NASA selects additional companies for construction contracts at Stennis

NASA has selected four more companies for indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity multiple-award construction contracts at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss. These are in addition to six companies selected in August.

The fixed price contracts consist of a performance period of five years, with a total value not to exceed $700 million.

 

The companies selected are:

  • American Contractor & Technology, Inc., Scott, La.
  • D.N.P. Inc., Biloxi, Miss.
  • Healtheon, Inc., New Orleans, La.
  • Southeast Cherokee Construction, Inc., Montgomery, Ala.

 

Work under the contract includes, but will not be limited to, building and facility maintenance, repair and alteration; mechanical, civil and electrical engineering; heating and air conditioning maintenance; demolition; painting; earthwork; fencing; steel fabrication and welding. Additional work also may include design-and-build projects for new construction of buildings or facilities.

 




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