ITT Awarded Task Order to Support U.S. Military Prepositioned Equipment
Colorado Springs, Colo., March 4, 2010 — ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) has been awarded a contract to provide maintenance, supply and transportation services to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps on Camp Arifjan and other locations in Southwest Asia. The award is a task order under the Field Installation Readiness Support Team (FIRST) contract vehicle, for one base year with four one-year options. The expected value of work completed in 2010 is approximately $45 million, with a total potential contract value of approximately $230 million with all options exercised.

AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING THERE IS NOT ONE CONTRACTOR THAT DOES’NT HAVE ANY ISSUES…I GUESS NO ONE IS PERFECT..BUT AT LEAST I KNOW ABOUT KBR FIRST HAND…CSA WOULD BE LIKE WALKING IN A DARK ALLEY BLIND FOLDED….YES?

CSA (and others) have a history of NOT allowing that so you end up at home without your last pay check.

Do the ground work from home.

Keep doing a good job!

I’m gonna change my name to slinginshit

We seem to agree – I just tend to be on the less optimistic side. I personally love living and working overseas, but it is not for everyone as you well know. And yes if there are positions then it is easier to get hired if you are already there and have a good work reputation – basically because the previous guy has gone through all of the expense and hassle to get you there.

I think you are going to see some of the camps go away from the KBOSS – pretty sure you can figure out which ones – based on the mission and when they were added to the contract.

In any event it will be quite interesting to see who ends up with the new contract. Agree that it will most likely not be AECOM – hell they are now under investigation for their direct Iraq contracts.

Keep safe – stop by Ruby T’s and have a Blue Hawaiian for me.

1. The Statement of Work for the KBOSS is signifcantly smaller than on the current CSSK contract. It has in fact been turned into four different efforts. Two of which are LCIV Task Orders. (This is covered on FEDBIZOPPS.gov in the announcement for this effort).

This will mean a significant reduction in the number and types of personnel the new company will need. CAS currently states that they have 2500 Expats and 7500 TCN’s.

Despite what Fattest states – follow-on contractors do not necessarily pick up the employees from the previous contractor. Read all of the posts from KBR LCIII people who are in Theater and trying to get hired by the Fluor and Dyn.

I am not sure if Fattest has any other experience with start-up since he states he has been on this one contract for 7 years – I used to be on the Start up team of a major contractor. The number of expats we retained depended on a lot of things – such as whether the company had current employees who were coming off of other contracts that needed positions. We generally retained less than 10% of the incumbents expat personnel. The TCN/HCN’s are a different story.

2. As the follow-on is still in the proposal stage there is no way of knowing what the winner has proposed in the way of salary and benefits. These too may be significantly reduced.

3. Because CSA’s current contract expires 6/30/2010 they will not currently be able to obtain an actual Visa 18 work visa for you as they have to have a year left on the contract to do that. This also means that you will not be able to obtain a Kuwaiti Drivers license – without which you will be driving illegally in the country.

Before taking any position, anywhere, with any company. Make sure that you have done the research know the pro’s and con’s and then rationally (I know money is a great motivator) decide if it truely is the right choice for you.