PM J-AIT Awards RFID-III Contract To Four Vendors
The US Army Product Manager for Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT), a part of the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) at Fort Belvoir, VA, is pleased to announce the award of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-III Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to the following contractors: Savi (a Lockheed Martin Company); Northrop Grumman Information Technology; Unisys; and Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC).
"The RFID-III contract enables DoD to migrate from a sole-source contract to a multi-vendor IDIQ contract," stated Lt. Col. Pat Burden, PM J-AIT. "This is a significant milestone for DoD in that this migration will not only give DoD and other Federal agencies' customers best-value solutions at competitive prices, but it moves us to ISO 18000.7:2008 compliant products, thus broadening interoperability with DoD and our Coalition partners. We look forward to working with the RFID-III contractors."
This is a Firm Fixed Price IDIQ contract for Commercial active RFID (aRFID) hardware, software, and services. The contract has a ceiling value of $429.4M. The term of the contract is 10 years consisting of a three-year base period; two one-year options for products, services and maintenance; and five one-year options for maintenance only. In addition, PM J-AIT will offer site surveys, installation, integration, implementation and training for turn-key aRFID solutions to DoD, US Coast Guard, NATO, Federal Agencies, Coalition Partners, and other Foreign Military Sales (FMS). Individuals interested in additional information on the aRFID products and services offered should contact the Contracting Officer Representative (COR), Ms. Cindy Jones, via email cindy.j.jones@us.army.mil.
About PM J-AIT
PM J-AIT is the DoD AIT and RFID leader providing global asset tracking, Web-based RF-ITV services, and complete program life cycle support. PM J-AIT products and services are customer driven, instantly accessible, and capable of being updated. PM J-AIT serves as the Executive Agent for RF-ITV infrastructure to DoD and Coalition Partners in support of expeditionary logistics and the Joint Warfighter. For more information about PM J-AIT, please refer to our Web site at www.eis.army.mil/AIT.
SOURCE: PM J-AIT