The U.S. Transportation Command has raised the value of the Global Heavyweight Service program with the award of $67.2 million in contract modification to 22 cargo service providers.
Contractors will handle domestic and international shipments of heavyweight items in support of defense and other government agencies as well as their industry partners, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.
Services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, fixed-price contract include delivery handling, transportation, shipment tracking and data reporting.
The awardees are:
- ABX Air
- Air Transport International
- Alaska Airlines
- American Airlines
- Amerijet International
- Atlas Air
- Delta Air Lines
- Eastern Airlines
- Everts Air Cargo
- FedEx
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Jet Blue
- Kalitta Air
- Lynden Air Cargo
- Sun Country Airlines
- National Air Cargo Group
- Northern Air Cargo
- Omni Air International
- Polar Air Cargo Worldwide
- Southwest Airlines
- United Airlines
- United Parcel Service
- Western Global Airlines
Work provided for by the recent award will run throughout the month of January. It will cover the period before the follow-on program kicks off.
In December, TRANSCOM named the awardees of a potential $1.5 billion contract for the Global Heavyweight Service-2 program. Its period of performance is from Feb. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2032.
