Regional manufacturers win work from Army agencies totaling more than $220 million

Regional manufacturers win work from Army agencies totaling more than $220 million
23 May 2011

Manufacturers and construction companies tied to Southeast Michigan won more than $220 million in new contract awards from agencies

of the U.S. Army this week for work to be completed over the next two years.
Walbridge Overaa, a Detroit-based joint venture of Walbridge Aldinger Co. and Richmond, Calif., general contractor C. Overaa &

Co., prevailed over 13 other bidders for a $22.8 million fixed-price contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Under the contract,

Walbridge Overaa will design and build an Army Reserve Center in Concord, Calif., by March 2013.
Walbridge reported that the joint venture already is performing design-build work at Moffett Federal Airfield near Sunnyvale, Calif.

That project encompasses a 186,500-square-foot Armed Forces Reserve Center, a Regional Readiness Support Command building, a

fitness center and a 67,000-square-foot vehicle maintenance and training building.
Walbridge Aldinger received $131.3 million in new contract awards in fiscal 2010, making it the third-largest defense contracting

company by contract value in metro Detroit, according to the Federal Procurement Data System.
Sterling Heights-based General Dynamics Land Systems received a $34 million fixed-fee contract from U.S. Army Contracting

Command at the Tacom Life Cycle Management Command in Warren, allowing for system technical support on the Abrams battle tank

program. Work under the single-source award is to be completed at the company headquarters by December.
The Army is contemplating a three-year hiatus in the Abrams program starting in 2013, in a move that could save the service $1.3

billion. But General Dynamics Land Systems and its suppliers will visit with members of Michigan’s congressional delegation in the coming

weeks to try to save the program.
AM General LLC, the Indiana-based maker of the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle, won a $164.4 million fixed-price

contract with Tacom in Warren for vehicle sales to Afghanistan and Jordan under the federal Foreign Military Sales program. AM

General has an engineering and product development center in Livonia.
Under that contract, work will be completed on 763 Humvees by Jan. 31, 2012. (Source: Crain’s Detroit Business)


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