RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas –
The 12th Contracting Squadron recently awarded 14 contracts worth about $12.6 million in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act "stimulus" dollars for 15 of 20 planned projects designed to repair and replace Randolph Air Force Base's aging facilities and modernize its buildings to current energy efficiency standards.
"These expenditures are allowing critical infrastructure projects to get going in order to update our base's capabilities," said Estella Calvillo, 12th Contracting Squadron small business specialist.
Ms. Calvillo, a link in awarding those contracts on the projects to small, locally-based, construction-oriented businesses, said the contracts will create and save local jobs and help jump-start the economy -- building a foundation for long-term growth.
In fact, the 12th CONS has Fiscal 2009 goals to award 65.8 percent of its contracts to small businesses; 31 percent to small, disadvantaged businesses; 5.8 percent to women-owned businesses and 4.5 percent to disabled veteran-owned small businesses, Ms. Calvillo said. So far, those goals are being met.
The money awarded in contracts listed for the following 14 projects flows from about $19 million in ARRA stimulus funds recently given to Team Randolph:
--$27,614.30 contract to re-lamp Bldgs. 3 and 241 and Hangars 75 and 76
--$208,848.53 contract for an airfield light-emitting diode, energy-saving lighting system
--$223,761.23 contract to replace the roof in Bldg. 241
--$276,777.72 contract to repair pavement and add a lane to the south gate
--$672,446, split between two contracts, to repair and replace electrical circuits, in two phases, in Bldgs. 860-862
--$399,459.58 contract to repair pavement on J and Fifth streets
-- $2,422,025 contract to repair and replace west switching stations
-- $2,360,531 contract to repair and replace the east switching stations
-- $995,509.70 contract to repair roofs throughout the base
--$409,974.73 contract to replace aircraft fire-fighting foam diesel engines in Bldg. 50
--$481,759 contract to replace transformers and switches in Bldg. 738
--$2,790,107 contract to uprade the base's chilled water loop
--$565,425.61 contract to replace the roof in Bldg. 745
--$792,475.76 contract to repair H Street's pavement
Information from the Department of Defense's Office of Small Business Programs said the ARRA includes about $7.4 billion in defense-related appropriations. That accounts for less than one percent of the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Barack Obama.