N6247321D1211-N6247321F4921

Jun 2021: RQ Construction LLC, Carlsbad, California, is awarded a $217,657,842 firm-fixed-price task order (N62473-21-F-4921) under a multiple award construction contract for the design and construction of the Michelson Laboratory Complex and repair of wings Six and Seven at the Michelson Laboratory building at Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake.  The task order also contains 25 unexercised options, which if exercised, would increase cumulative task order value to $225,596,669.  The work to be performed provides for the design and construction of an industrial shop, environmental laboratory and a chemistry laboratory for advanced materials research and development.  Work will be performed in Ridgecrest, California, and is expected to be completed by August 2025.  Fiscal 2020 military construction (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $186,453,782; and fiscal 2021 Navy working capital funds in the amount of $31,204,060, for a total of $217,657,842, are obligated on this award, with the Navy working capital funds expiring at the end of the current fiscal year.  Four proposals were received for this task order.  Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Southwest, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N62473-21-D-1211).