Manufacturer in Puerto Rico Awarded Two Foreign Military Sales Contracts

Pentaq Manufacturing Corp., Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, has been awarded a maximum $32,333,000 modification (P00156) exercising the fourth one-year option of a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-13-D-1073) with four one-year option periods for various types of trousers. The modification brings the maximum dollar value of the contract to $99,250,564 from $66,917,564. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Locations of performance are Puerto Rico, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina, with a Sept. 23, 2018, ordering period end date, and a March 23, 2019, estimated performance completion date. Using customers are Army, Coast Guard and Afghanistan government. Types of appropriation are fiscal 2017 through 2018 defense working capital; and foreign military sales funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pentaq Manufacturing Corp., Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, has been awarded a maximum $18,456,470 modification (P00140) exercising the fourth one-year option of a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-13-D-1074) with four one-year option periods for various types of trousers. The modification brings the maximum dollar value of the contract to $39,411,238 from $20,954,768. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Locations of performance are Puerto Rico, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina, with a Sept. 23, 2018, ordering period end date, and a March 23, 2019, estimated performance completion date. Using customers are Army and Afghanistan government. Types of appropriation are fiscal 2017 through 2018 defense working capital; and foreign military sales funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Within the U.S. industry it is widely understood that Department of Defense acquisitions of textiles and clothing are government by the Berry Amendment which requires domestic U.S. sourcing. Less well known is that the Berry Amendment applies to all funds "made available" to the Defense Department. That includes Department of Defense procurement for Foreign Military Sales.