SAIC receives contract from US agency

Science Applications International (SAIC) has been awarded a contract by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to provide integrated logistics services.

Under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, SAIC will provide integrated logistics services including procurement, shipping, warehousing, international travel support, and programme support for worldwide cooperative threat reduction (CTR) operations.

The contract also includes cooperative threat reduction logistics support, including management of material procurement, shipping and warehousing; personnel logistics services; and logistics information system requirements.

SAIC DoD Agencies and Commands Group senior vice president Mark Escobar said the company will continue to support the critical international mission.

"SAIC’s long-standing support to DTRA, its expertise in logistics, and DoD program support will enable us to assist DTRA worldwide in its CTR mission," Escobar added.

The contract has a three-year base period of performance and two one-year options, if exercise, the total potential value of contract will be approximately $100m.

Work under the contract will be carried out globally.

The US Department of Defense’s (DoD) official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD), DTRA aims to address the entire spectrum of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive threats.

SAIC provides services to the US DoD, the intelligence community, the US Department of Homeland Security, other US Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets.