North Carolina Military Business Center Awards $139 Million in Construction Contracts to Fifteen Different Firms
Posted: 09-10-2009 : FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.

Fayetteville, N.C. – The North Carolina Military Business Center (NCMBC) is pleased to announce $139 million in federal construction contract awards awarded to North Carolina businesses.

“We are extremely pleased to see these contract awards to outstanding North Carolina businesses, who won because they offered the best value solution to the government. The NCMBC is pleased to work with great companies like these and with federal agencies to increase awards to North Carolina firms. The Navy’s award of a multiple award construction contract to eight companies – every one of which is from North Carolina – is extremely gratifying,” said Scott Dorney, NCMBC Executive Director.

The following North Carolina companies have been awarded contracts by the Federal government.

• The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic has announced that eight North Carolina companies have been awarded Multiple Award Construction Contracts (MACC) worth a total of $90,000,000. S. T. Wooten and Trade Construction Co. both of New Bern, NC; Onslow Grading & Paving, Inc., Morton Trucking and TEAM Construction of Jacksonville, NC; Barnhill Contracting Company of Tarboro, NC; Sunland Builders, Inc and Joyce & Associates of Newport, NC have each been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity MACC for paving and civil type projects at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and all outlying fields and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (including New River Air Station), and other military and government installations/sites in North Carolina.
  
  
• Guerrero Builders of Raeford, NC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a $1,199,507.00 contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs using Recovery Act funds to Modernize Building 13 at the Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, NC.
  
  
• ECC Construction, LLC of Raleigh, NC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a $532,850.00 contract to Expand Physical and Occupational Therapy and a $2,235,500.00 contract for Removal and Replacement of Existing Air Handling Units. Both contracts were awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs using Recovery Act funds for work at the Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC.
  
  
• Seven Hills Construction of Salisbury, NC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a $1,554,471.00 contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs using Recovery Act funds for HVAC replacement and upgrade in Building 5 at the Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salisbury, NC.
  
  
• TEAM Construction, LLC of Jacksonville, NC, a small disadvantaged, 8(a), woman-owned business, was awarded a $2,971,500.00 contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to relocate 14 Air Support Operations Squadron at Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville, NC.
  
  
• Roberson Contracting, Inc. of Williamston, NC, a small business, was awarded an $856,788.20 contract by the Department of Transportation for work at the Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, NC.
  
  
• Gaines Construction, LLC of Knightdale, NC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, was awarded a $995,112.00 contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs using Recovery Act funds to replace Underground Chilled Water and Domestic Water Lines at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Salisbury, NC.
  
  
• Ikhana/Choate-1, LLC of Mount Pleasant, SC and Raleigh, NC was awarded a $13,385,855.00 contract by the Department of the Navy to design/build two child development centers at Camp Lejeune, NC.
  
  
• Facility Construction LLC of Fayetteville, NC, an 8(a) joint venture, was awarded a $25,000,000.00 indefinite delivery contract by the National Institutes of Health for renovations and alterations at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC.

As a component of the North Carolina Community College System, the NCMBC leverages military and other federal business opportunities, to assist firms located in North Carolina that wish to get into or expand their footprint in Federal government contracting, both as a contractor and subcontractor. Businesses notified or assisted by the NCMBC since it opened in 2005 have won at least 700 contract awards worth $1.82 to $3.44 billion.

For more information on the above announcements, please contact the North Carolina Military Business Center at 910-323-4892, toll free at 877-245-5520 or visit NCMBC online at www.ncmbc.us.