Wednesday, April 11, 2007
MPRI wins $15 mn CFE contract
Contracts
(InfoProd Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) MPRI, Alexandria, Va., was awarded on March 27, 2007, a $15,313,655 firm-fixed-price contract for instructors for the Counterinsurgency Center for Excellence. Work will be performed in Baghdad, Iraq, and is expected to be completed by June 15, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on Jan. 19, 2007, and four bids were received.The Joint Contracting Command-Iraq/Afghanistan, Baghdad, Iraq, is the contracting activity (W91GER-07-C-0007).
COMMENT: MPRI was started in 1987 by retired Army General Vernon Lewis anticipating downsizing reforms following the end of the Cold War. They entered the military service marketplace as post-Cold War conflicts flared up with hundreds of generals and resources a call away. In 2000, they were acquired by L-3 Communications, owned partly by the Lehman Brothers investment firm, for $40 million, and putting them into the New York Stock Exchange under L-3's ticker: LLL.
By 2002, they had grown to 40 administrators, 800 field agents, over 12,500 personnel on call and $100 million worth of contracts. They operate on a training and advisory level. The company was joined in 1993 by the current president, General Carl Vuono, who as the US Army Chief of Staff from 1987-1993, oversaw operations in the first Gulf War. The current executive vice-president, General Ronald H. Griffith, was vice chief of staff for the US Army until retiring in 1997. [2] Retired Lt. General Ed Soyster, vice-president of operations, is a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. MPRI is a member of International Peace Operations Association. In April, 2003, MPRI was awarded two contracts by the Defense Department for work in Iraq worth a total of $2.5 million. MPRI will provide plans to put ex-soldiers to work on public works programs. They will also provide interperters and linguistics for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. COMMENT ENDS.
By 2002, they had grown to 40 administrators, 800 field agents, over 12,500 personnel on call and $100 million worth of contracts. They operate on a training and advisory level. The company was joined in 1993 by the current president, General Carl Vuono, who as the US Army Chief of Staff from 1987-1993, oversaw operations in the first Gulf War. The current executive vice-president, General Ronald H. Griffith, was vice chief of staff for the US Army until retiring in 1997. [2] Retired Lt. General Ed Soyster, vice-president of operations, is a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. MPRI is a member of International Peace Operations Association. In April, 2003, MPRI was awarded two contracts by the Defense Department for work in Iraq worth a total of $2.5 million. MPRI will provide plans to put ex-soldiers to work on public works programs. They will also provide interperters and linguistics for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. COMMENT ENDS.
Labels: Camp Taji, Counterinsurgency Center for Excellence, MPRI
