Raytheon has received a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth $40.25m from the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk. The post Raytheon secures potential $212.12m ROTHR contract for US Navy appeared first on Naval Technology.
The contract covers operations and maintenance services for the ROTHR at the Forces Surveillance Support Center in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Raytheon has received a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth $40.25m from the Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, Contracting Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The agreement covers operations and maintenance services for the relocatable over-the-horizon radar (ROTHR) at the Forces Surveillance Support Center in Chesapeake, Virginia.
The contract features a one-year base period and includes four additional one-year options according to Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.217-9.
If all option years are exercised, the contract could reach a total estimated value of $212.12m with work potentially continuing until April 2031.
Work under the contract will be carried out at multiple locations, with 48% in Chesapeake, Virginia, 10% each in Freer and Premont, Texas, 9% in New Kent, Virginia, 9% each in Juana Diaz and Vieques Diaz, Puerto Rico, 3% in Dallas, Texas, and 2% in Fairfax, Virginia.
Raytheon is scheduled to complete the work by April 2027 unless all contract options are exercised.
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For the base period of performance, the Navy will obligate $1m in fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance funds at the time of award. These funds will expire at the end of fiscal 2026.
Funding for subsequent option periods will utilise operations and maintenance funds from their respective fiscal years.
The ROTHR high frequency radar system provides long range surveillance for the US government in support of counter drug operations. Raytheon designs, builds, operates, and maintains the system.
In 2021, Raytheon obtained a $146m five-year contract in 2021 to continue its role operating and maintaining the US government’s ROTHR system.
Additionally, in 2023, the US Navy awarded Raytheon an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at $87.5m for engineering and programme support services for the TPS-71 ROTHR at the Forces Surveillance Support Center.
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