New U.S. Transportation Command Contract

March 2, 2010

Crowley Liner Services, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., has been awarded a sole-source letter contract to obtain emergency port related services in Haiti.  The contract has a not-to-exceed amount of $22,000,000.  The contract is for services required to restore cargo delivery capability and support Haiti port operations at Port-au-Prince.  Services include surveying damaged ports and beaches; establishment of beach landing operations; cargo lightering operations to establish a link between deep draft cargo vessels and beach landing facilities; warehousing; cargo consolidation; trucking; placement of docking barges with cranes to function as temporary piers and removal of various obstructions in the water, to include a large gantry crane.  Work will be performed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the performance period is from Jan. 16, 2010, to April 15, 2010.  This was a sole-source procurement executed under the authority of FAR Part 6.302-2, Unusual and Compelling Urgency.  The U.S. Transportation Command, Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity (HTC711-10-C-W001).
 

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