NORTH SMITHFIELD – Banneker Industries, a supply chain management services provider, has been chosen by the Naval Surface Warfare Center as a prime contractor for its Seaport-e contracts, the company announced.
This will enable the 23-year old company to offer the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and other Department of Defense agencies supply and provisioning support services in the northeast and the southwest United States. It allows the company to bid on specific types of navy contracts called “task orders,” Junior Jabbie, executive manager of business development for Banneker, explained.
He said the maximum amount for all Seaport-e contracts is $5.3 billion, but that represents the total potential if the company were to bid on every task order released.
“We clearly won’t come close to that,” Jabbie wrote in an email.
“This 10-year contract vehicle is a milestone in Banneker’s history,” Jabbie said in a statement. “We are now able to offer our Navy customers’ unparalleled access to our services – delivering task orders for supply and provisioning support services in a fast and cost-effective manner. The quality and range of our services combined with our significant past performance in the defense community and woman-owned, small and disadvantaged business status create a powerful value proposition for our customers and ultimately, the American warfighter.”
Banneker, in the release, said it will ensure the availability of operation and maintenance material for the warfighter through cost effective storage, transport and inventory management capabilities.
SeaPort-e is the Navy’s electronic platform for acquiring support services in 22 areas including engineering, financial management and program management.
According to information from the U.S. Navy, the Navy Systems Commands (NAVSEA, NAVAIR, SPAWAR, NAVFAC, and NAVSUP), the Office of Naval Research, Military Sealift Command, and the U.S. Marine Corps use more than 2,400 SeaPort-e multiple award contract holders.
“All task orders are competitively solicited, awarded and managed using the SeaPort-e platform. Since nearly 85 percent of its contract–holders are small businesses, the SeaPort-e approach to acquiring services provides opportunity that fuels the nation’s engine of job growth,” NAVSEA said on its website.
