DTRA awards $3.5B recompete of counter-WMD support contract
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By
Ross Wilkers
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency uses this program to acquire research, training and other professional services to help partner countries fight the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Five companies have won positions on a potential 10-year, $3.5 billion contract that supports the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s efforts to counter weapons of mass destruction.
Awardees will compete for task orders to carry research and other professional services work under the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, through which DTRA partners with U.S. allies and other willing countries to prevent the proliferation of WMDs.
The Pentagon’s Friday awards digest lists these companies as winners:
- Amentum (incumbent)
- Black & Veatch (incumbent)
- Fluor (newcomer)
- Parsons Corp. (incumbent)
- V2X (newcomer)
A proposal from Jacobs’ government services unit also received selection for an award, bringing the total number of awards to six. That business completed its merger into Amentum in September, roughly two months after bids for the contract were due, which indicates the Jacobs award is poised for novation.
DTRA received seven bids in total for this fourth iteration of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating contract, also called CTRIC IV, which also includes training and equipment to help participating countries build up their own capacity for confronting WMDs.
DTRA has obligated approximately $779.3 million in order volume to-date against the current CTRIC III contract since it was awarded in 2018, according to GovTribe data.
Amentum has been the largest recipient of that spend at approximately $505.1 million, or 64.5%. That figure includes work it performed as the government services business of AECOM, plus the PAE entity Amentum acquired in 2022.
Started in 1991, the CTR Program originally focused on collaborations with former Soviet Union member countries on safely dismantling their WMD stockpiles and preventing those weapons from falling into the hands of adversaries.
CTR has since expanded into a more generalized, global approach with 35 countries listed on the program’s website as active participants.
Work under the CTRIC IV contract will take place over an initial five-year base period and a single five-year option.