By Washington Technology
Monday, March 13, 2006

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. of McLean, Grant Thornton LLP of Chicago, Performance Management Consulting Inc. of Alexandria, SiloSmashers Inc. of Vienna and Touchstone/SRA International Inc. of the District won the right to compete for $10 million over five years from the General Services Administration to support the Office of Management and Budget's Lines of Business consolidation initiatives.

NCI Information Systems Inc. of Reston won a $25.3 million, five-year contract from the Army to provide information technology services to the 1115th Signal Battalion and the Army's Directors of Information Management at Fort Lewis, Wash.

SRA International Inc. of Fairfax won a $17 million, two-year contract from the Defense Department to provide enterprise architecture and database management to support the Defense Manpower Data Center.

Tier Technologies Inc. of Reston won a $27.1 million contract from the Virginia Social Services Department to operate a customer services call center intended to expedite and improve collections for the department's child support program.

Arinc Engineering Services LLC of Annapolis won a $5.9 million contract from the Army Materiel Command for systems engineering services.

The Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command awarded contracts to provide tailored transportation services for freight traffic and U.S. government shipment of foreign military sales material throughout the continental United States to Overnite Transportation Co. of Richmond for $6.5 million, Northern Neck Transfer Inc. of King George for $1.8 million, and Eagle Global Logistics LP of Dulles for $5.7 million.

CNA Corp. of Alexandria won a $26.6 million contract from the Education Department for the regional educational laboratory program.

Northrop Grumman Defense Mission Systems Inc. of Reston won an $8.6 million contact from the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center for continuing engineering and technical services for programs including the Tomahawk Command and Control System, the Joint Mission Planning System and the Imagery Exploitation Support System.

Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s government unit in Herndon won a one-year, $1.5 million Defense Department contract to design higher assurance applets for the Defense Department Common Access Card and enforce that the cards will accept only digitally signed applets from an approved source.

Progeny Systems Corp. of Manassas won a $7.3 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide engineering services for electronics-based sub-systems to provide submarines' command and control functions.

Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Chantilly won an $18 million contract from the Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office for changes in the Pentagon renovation project.

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office of Patuxent River won a $737.6 million contract from the Navy for acquisition and support of low rate initial production of the V-22 tilt-wing aircraft. It also won an $18.1 million contract from the Naval Air Systems Command to provide logistic services in support of the developmental test and initial operational test and evaluation of the model CV-22.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems of Fairfax won a $10.8 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command for multi-purpose processors and total ship monitoring system kits.

Tidewater Inc. of Columbia won a $10 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers for engineering services for hazardous toxic and radioactive waste in the North Atlantic division and assigned mission areas.

Excell Management of Silver Spring won a $3.8 million contract from the Coast Guard Engineering and Logistics Center in Baltimore for custodial and janitorial services.

AMF Mechanical Corp. of Upper Marlboro won a $1.1 million contract from the National Archives and Records Administration for operation of mechanical maintenance services.

STG Inc. of Reston won an $8.8 million contract from the General Services Administration for language services.

ITT Industries Inc. of Roanoke won two contracts, for $4.54 million and $4.4 million, from the Army Materiel Command for night vision equipment.

National Center for Housing Management of Reston won a $12.8 million contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command to provide military lodging educational services.

Innovative Technologies Inc. of Chantilly won a $2.3 million contract from the Postal Service for television production support for its Bolger media unit.

Staff writer Judith Mbuya contributed to this report.