Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc.

Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc., Defense Mission Systems, Communications and Information Systems Division, San Diego, is being awarded a $6,869,002 cost-plus-fixed-fee services contract for engineering and technical support services for systems engineering as they pertain to command, control, communication, computers and intelligence (C3I) systems for the Navy. The contract contains options, which if exercised, would bring the total cumulative value of this contract to $75,847,908. This contract involves purchases for the countries of Italy (four percent) and Japan (four percent) under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed in San Diego, (an estimated 78 percent); other U.S. states (an estimated 20 percent) of which Norfolk, Va. (an estimated one percent of the 20 percent), and Washington, D.C. (an estimated one percent of the 20 percent) are locations where performance is currently known; and foreign countries (two percent). Work is to be completed by September 2002. Contract funds in the amount of $2,000,000 will expire by the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured through the Commerce Business Daily and the Request for Proposals was posted to the Navy Electronic Commerce Online Web site with one offer received. The Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego, is the contracting activity (N00244-02-C-0008).