Contract Vehicles
MERC maintains numerous contract vehicles which allow our government customers convenient access paths to work with us. These contract vehicles relate primarily to the DoD and the federal government. However, MERC also provides support to other business entities including:
- Commercial
- Educational
- Industrial
- Non-profits
MERC does work for these other business entities to provide needed engineering services related directly to their requirements and products. Additionally, MERC can serve as a team member or sub-contractor to a prime contractor on DoD or other government agency contracts.
MERC has an expert on-site contracts administration team. Our Operations Directorate has all the needed resources to execute the required contracts and cost accounting and reporting activities in full compliance with Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) requirements.
MERC Serves as a Prime Contractor
MERC Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ):
Issued by AFSC/PZIE-R at Robins AFB. The IDIQ covers efforts for mission Essential Engineering Capability (EEC) support for AFSC and AFLCMC organizations at Robins AFB. This contract vehicle supports Robins AFB maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability through supplemental support. It includes core engineering functions including the skill sets
- Software
- Aircraft
- Structural
- Mechanical
- Electrical/Electronic engineering
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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NASA Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
This BPA was issued by NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA (AFRC), for Structural engineering services for flight vehicle and ground test systems. This purchase agreement covers engineering support services to include:
- Research
- Development
- Engineering
- Design
- Analysis
- Fabrication
- Integration
- Electronic packaging
- Hazard analyses
- Associated flight and ground safety procedures
- Test operations
- Associated support of flight vehicles and ground test hardware
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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MERC is a Member
Consortium for Command, Control & Communication in Cyberspace (C5), Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
OTAs with both the Department of the Army and Marine Corp Systems Command
Technology Focus Areas:
- Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations
- Situational Understanding
- C4ISR and Targeting
- System-of-Systems Architecture
- Tactical and Strategic Networks
- Enterprise Systems
- Software and Hardware Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Forensics
- Analytics
- Systems Integration
- Electronic Warfare
- Positioning, Navigation and Timing
- Information Operations
- Intelligence Analysis, Exploitations and Disseminations
- Mobility and Autonomy
- Sensors
- Modeling and Simulation
- Training
- Enabling Technologies
Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC), Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
OTA issued by AMRDEC and ACC-Redstone
Technology Areas:
- Guided Missile
- Manufacturing & Enabling/Disruptive Technologies
- Aviation
Consortium for Energy, Environment & Demilitarization (CEED), Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
OTAs with both the Department of the Army and Marine Corp Systems Command
Focus Areas:
- Environmental Quality and Installations
- Remediation and Decontamination
- Manufacturing and Maintenance
- Operational Energy Engineer Systems
- Resilient Facilities and Infrastructure
- Civil Works
- Unmanned Systems and Robotics
- Logistics
- Combat and Protective Clothing
- Force Protection and Sustainment
- Demilitarization
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Threat Reduction
- Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Neutralization
- Infantry Weapon Systems, Fires and Ammunition
- Ground, Sea and Air Vehicles
- Identify Dominance/Biometrics
- Training Systems
- Enabling Technologies
Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC), Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
OTA issued by Army Contracting Command for a government, industry and academic collaborative effort to speed development of technology and lay the foundation for a Future Vertical Lift (FVL) family of systems.
Naval Aviation Systems Consortium (NASC), Other Transaction Authority (OTA)
OTA issued by NAVAIR
Technology Areas:
- Air Vehicles
- Propulsion and Power
- Avionics
- Human Systems
- Weapons and Energetics
- Warfare Analysis
- Research and Intelligence
- Test, Evaluation and Engineering
- Simulation and Modeling
- Digital Transformation
- Support Equipment and Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment
EDGE Innovation Network
(General Dynamics)
Agreement for the purpose of fostering collaboration between industry, customers, users and academia to deliver new technologies and innovative capabilities to the warfighter/first responder.
MERC Serves as a Teammate/Subcontractor
GSA-One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)
OASIS is designed to address agencies’ need for a full range of service requirements that integrate multiple professional service disciplines and ancillary services/products with the flexibility for all contract types and pricing at the task order level. The services to be provided under OASIS are intended to meet the professional service mission requirements of all Federal agencies, including all organizations within the Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security Community.
MERC is a subcontractor for DESP-OASIS and OASIS SB Pool 3. The primes for each OASIS Pool may be found here.
GSA-Design & Engineering Support Program -One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (DESP-OASIS)
DESP-OASIS replaces DESP III as a streamlined ordering procedure and contract vehicle for Engineering Services orders. DESP-OASIS offers streamlined ordering procedures to access the GSA OASIS Small Business contract vehicle. DESP OASIS uses the OASIS Small Business Contract and DESP ordering procedures.
GSA-One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)-Small Business
OASIS Small Business is a 100 percent Small Business Set-Aside contract (FAR 19.502) with the ability for Socio-Economic Set-Asides (FAR 19.8 thru FAR 19.15) at the task order level.
NOTE: MERC can be reached as a sub-contractor in “OASIS SB Pool 3”.
Structures Engineering Research Program (SERP)
Through the use of SERP Program task orders, air and space vehicle structures Research & Development (R&D) will be conducted to deliver future air and space vehicle capabilities to the Warfighter. R&D activities will include, but is not limited to, conceptual design studies, experimental test planning and execution, model fabrication/modification, analytical and experimental data analyses, systems engineering assessments, technology assessments and evaluations, and computational analyses.
The R&D activities will be focused around the following Aerospace Vehicles Division technical competencies/research areas:
- Structural Response Prediction
- Structural Life Forecasting
- Structural Integrity
- Geometry Modeling and Design
- Multidisciplinary Modeling and Analysis
- Adaptive Structures
- Multifunctional Structures
- Hybrid Structures
- Thermal Structures
- Experimental Validation
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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Defense Systems Analysis (DSA)
IDIQ through Missile & Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) of the Defense Intelligence Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL for scientific and technical intelligence analysis with emphasis to assess the theory of operation, characteristics and performance, physical characteristics, signatures, vulnerabilities and employment of defense systems.
Defensive system components of interest:
- Associated radars
- Active, passive, and semi-active seekers, directed energy weapons
- Electro-optical and infrared sensors
- Launchers
- Missiles & all missile related subsystems
- Command & control assets
- Physical & emitting decoys
- System support & maintenance equipment
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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Defense Systems Technical Areas Tasks (DS TATs)
The mission of the DS TATs contract is to provide RDT&E and R&D Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) for the vital technical areas of:
- Advanced materials and manufacturing
- Autonomous systems
- Directed energy
- Energetics, reliability, and maintainability
- Military sensing
- Non-lethal weapons and information operations
- Quality
- Supportability and interoperability
- Survivability and vulnerability
- Weapon systems technology
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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NAVAIR RCM Support (Andromeda Systems, Inc.)
IDIQ contract issued by Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, for the procurement of logistics engineering and technical support services providing reliability-centered maintenance for new and in-service aircraft, engines, systems, support equipment, and depot plant equipment, including their modifications, during all life cycle phases and levels of maintenance.
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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JAX 4.0 (Andromeda Systems, Inc.)
IDIQ issued by Naval Air Warfare Center in Service Support Center (ISSC) Fleet Readiness Center Southeast in Jacksonville, FL
Engineering Support Services for the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast.
Scope includes:
- Engineering support of new weapon systems
- System modifications
- Foreign Military Sales and support systems (including equipment)
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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Georgia Power Energy Services
Commercial Basic Ordering Agreement for engineering services to support energy services/technology with Georgia Power Corporation.
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
Test & Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments & Spectrum (TETRAS) Program
The TETRAS program seeks to rapidly develop and apply specialized hardware, software and prototype systems that will be used for the test, training and evaluation of Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), munitions systems, and electronic combat/countermeasures. The Air Force Test Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida is the contracting authority for the program.
For additional information contact Chuck Pollard at
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