The Defense Logistic Agency has awarded Caterpillar a $1.28 billion contract to supply construction equipment, the Department of Defense announced on Thursday.
The department received three bids for the economic-price-adjusted, indefinite-delivery requirement contract, which will last for five years with no option periods.
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Other deals are slated to be included within this larger contract, which is intended for use by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
“With 2021 sales and revenues of $51.0 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives,” the company said on its website. “For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.”
The deal with Caterpillar was announced Thursday among a slew of other contracts.
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The Navy announced a maximum-value $20 million contract to a small business in Guam, WMEM JV LLC, to indefinitely deliver “mechanical, electrical, and fire protection architect-engineer services for projects located primarily” nearby, and it also gave a $15 million contract with Peraton//Arcfield to support the Navy’s Strategic Weapons Systems Reentry Subsystem. Other companies, including Archer Western Federal JV; B.L. Harbert International; The Haskell Co.; The Korte Co., St. Louis, Missouri; and Mortenson Construction, have been “awarded a combined-maximum-value $15,000,000 firm-fixed-price modification to increase the capacity of their previously awarded contracts,” according to the department.
