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Contract Award: The Whiting-Turner Contacting Co. (Baltimore, Maryland) – $41,446,750

The Whiting-Turner Contacting Co., Baltimore, Maryland, is awarded a $41,446,750 firm-fixed-price task order (N6945023F0391) under previously-awarded multiple-award construction contract N69450-22-D-0013 to provide construction of P282 AHTS Flight Simulator Facility and demolition of Building 3005 at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Milton, Florida. This task order contains one unexercised option which, if exercised, would increase the cumulative contract value to $43,273,703. Work will be performed in Milton, Florida, and is expected to be completed by April 2027. Fiscal 2023 military construction (Navy) funds in the amount of $41,446,750 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Seven proposals were received for this task order. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast, Jacksonville, Florida, is the contracting activity.



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