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GD wins $198 million contract for Support System from US

  • 12:00 AM, February 1, 2011
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General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $198,711,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the manufacture and delivery of 120mm mortar ammunition for the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Fire Support System. Work will be performed in La Ferte, Saint-Aubin, France (50 percent); St. Petersburg, Fla. (22 percent); Camden, Ark. (18 percent); Lexington, Ky. (10 percent); and is expected to be completed by January 2016. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Marine Corps System Contracting Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity
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