NORFOLK
A local company won three orders worth up to $100.7 million from the Navy to install solar power systems at facilities in Norfolk and elsewhere.
Atlantic Contingency Constructors LLC, which received the orders, was formed by The Shaw Group Inc.'s Environmental & Infrastructure Group and AECOM Government Services Inc., said Gentry Brann, a spokeswoman for Baton Rouge, La.-based Shaw.
She declined to comment on the projects.
Atlantic Contingency won three cost-reimbursement task orders from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Norfolk under a previously awarded contract for installation of solar energy systems. The systems are intended to generate renewable energy at Navy shore facilities and will be tied into the electrical distribution grid.
Work for one of the orders, worth up to $25.7 million, will be done in the Norfolk area.
Another order, worth up to $66.4 million, is for systems in Florida, Mississippi and Texas. The third order, worth up to $8.6 million, is for installations in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
The work for all three orders is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, 2010. Funding for the solar projects comes from the federal stimulus package - the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Two bids were submitted for each task order.
Robert McCabe, (757) 446-2327, robert.mccabe@pilotonline.com
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