Construction Capabilities (CONCAP)
The Navy's civilian augmentation program is called Construction Capabilities (CONCAP), though sometimes termed Contingency Capabilities (CONCAP). This program was started to enhance the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's ability to respond to global contingencies. The immediate need was to supplement the capabilities of local commanders and regional resources.
CONCAP provides for indefinite deliveries and quantities using a cost-plus-award-fee contract for design, construction, and services to support the Navy in war, disaster recovery, and military operations other than war. CONCAP is suitable for those situations in which the mission parameters exceed normal acquisition timing, there is an austere contingency environment, and facility requirements are not well-defined.
The Contingency Construction Capabilities (CONCAP) contract provides the Navy and Marine Corps witha responsive contracting vehicle and a large civilian contractor at the ready to respond to contingencies or naturaldisasters.Contingencies, such as Somalia, Haiti, and Hurricane Andrew required Navy contracting officers to react toemergency requirements, but standard government contracts were often too slow and cumbersome to supportsuch situations.
CONCAP's purpose is to have a contractor available before an exigent situation develops, with a goal ofearly mobilization and startup construction. Required services include program planning, scheduling, design,engineering, transportation, construction management and quality control. The contractors will provide the personnel,equipment, materials, labor, travel and everything needed to give the Navy a quick response for civilian constructioncontract capability.
In 1996 CONCAP was put to the test. Hurricane Bertha hit North Carolina with sustained winds of 100 mphon Friday July 12, 1996. The next day the CONCAP contractor was on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune,having been staged when Bertha threatened the east coast. The CONCAP workforce grew to over 400. Damageestimates were about $30 million, with CONCAP covering about $15 million. Two months later, Hurricane Franhit North Carolina Sept. 5 adding another $15 million in work to the repair effort. The CONCAP workforceincreased to over 600. In 1998 CONCAP responded to hurricanes in North Carolina and Virginia, the Caribbean, Florida Keys, and Mississippi.
All the taskings for CONCAP haven't been for natural disasters. CONCAP was used to design a roadbetween Grozde and Sarajevo in Bosnia during 1996. In 1998, CONCAP was used along with Navy Seabees inSouda Bay, Crete to construct a sewage treatment plant, holding tank and pumping stations, and for urgent runwayrepairs at Aviano AB, Italy in 1999. In 2001 the contract was employed for repairs to a NASA runway inMorocco and in 2002 CONCAP built detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The first contract was awarded in 1995. The second CONCAP Contract ($300 million over five years) wasawarded to Brown & Root Services, a division of Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Arlington, VA. The current CONCAP contract for 1 base year with 4 option years of worldwide coverage was awarded to Brown & Root Services (now Halliburton KBR) in on 22 May 2001. The contract, awarded by the Atlantic Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (LANTDIVNAVFAC), calls for a broad range of capabilities in both vertical and horizontal construction scenarios.
CONCAP helps the Navy stay within its force ceilings and frees uniformed Navy personnel for contingency operations. The contract specifies what may be required and includes time parameters for setting up quick, behind-the-lines facility support for troops. It also frees up Seabees to support the fight.
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