Guam is Adding a Standoff Weapons Complex

Granite-Obayashi JV, Watsonville, California, is awarded a $41,944,700 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of a standoff weapons complex, Joint Region Marianas-Andersen, Guam. The work to be performed provides for construction of an adequately sized and configured missile maintenance and assembly complex for loading, unloading, transferring, storing, testing and preparing missiles for operational use. Work includes alterations and construction of an addition to Building 51109 to support preload capability of rotary launchers; improve the weight bearing capacity of existing roadways to support the weight of loaded munition handling unit (MHU)-196/MHU-204 munitions trailers from the missile maintenance facility to the airfield and storage earth covered magazines (ECMs); construction of a powered munitions trailer maintenance facility to support specialized maintenance activities for MHU-196/MHU-204 munitions trailers; and construction of two new 7-bar ECMs, Hayman Igloos, to support the storage of standoff weapons and pre-loaded common strategic rotary launchers. Work will be performed in Yigo, Guam, and is expected to be completed by March 2023. Fiscal 2021 military construction (Air Force) contract funds in the amount of $41,944,700 are obligated at time of this award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the beta.SAM.gov website with three proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Pacific, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, is the contracting activity (N62742-21-C-1338).