Sunday, April 13, 2025

Camouflage Pattern Combat Uniform Trouser Contract Awarded

April 11, 2025, National Industries for the Blind,** Alexandria, Virginia, has been awarded a maximum $67,903,500 fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for operational camouflage pattern combat uniform trousers. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. Locations of performance are Texas and Mississippi, with an April 10, 2030, ordering period end date. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2030 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE1C1-25-D-B004).

**Mandatory source

Camouflage Pattern Tarpaulin Contract Awarded

April 10, 2025, ORC Industries Inc.,** La Crosse, Wisconsin, has been awarded a maximum $46,403,280 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for operational camouflage pattern tarpaulins. This is a three-year contract with no option periods. Location of performance is Texas, with an April 9, 2028, ordering period end date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2028 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency T

roop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE1C1-25-D-N004).

**Mandatory source

Modular Scalable Vest and Related Components Contract Awarded

April 9, 2025, Bethel Industries,* Jersey City, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $148,083,623 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for modular scalable vest and related components. This was a competitive acquisition with nine responses received. This is a three-year contract with no option periods. The ordering period end date is April 9, 2028. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2028 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE1C1-25-D-0050).

*Small business

Men's Dress Apparel Trouser Contract Awarded

April 7, 2025, Bernard Cap LLC,* Hialeah, Florida, has been awarded a maximum $8,070,516 modification (P00008) exercising the third one-year option period of a one-year base contract (SPE1C1-22-D-1544) with four one-year option periods for men’s dress trousers. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The ordering period end date is April 11, 2026. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2026 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*Small business

Army and Air Force Cold Weather Jacket Contract Awarded

March 27, 2025, Valley Apparel LLC,* Knoxville, Tennessee, has been awarded a maximum $17,373,825 modification (P00009) exercising the second one‐year option period of a one‐year base contract (SPE1C1‐23‐D‐0016) with three one‐year option periods for extreme cold/wet weather jackets. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The ordering period end date is March 27, 2026. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2026 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*Small business

Cold Weather Jacket Contract Awarded

March 27, 2025, Federal Prison Industries Inc.,*** doing business as UNICOR, Washington, D.C., has been awarded a maximum $16,745,400 modification (P00008) exercising the second one‐year option period of a one‐year base contract (SPE1C1‐23‐D‐0017) with three one‐year option periods for extreme cold/wet weather jackets. This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Location of performance is Kentucky, with a March 27, 2026, ordering period end date. Using military services are Army and Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2025 through 2026 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

***Mandatory source

Monday, March 31, 2025

Mary DiZazzo-Trumbull 1954 - 2025

Mary DiZazzo-Trumbull died March 18, 2025, after a long illness. Mary was born on Christmas Day 1954, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, first-born child of Alec DiZazzo (1920 - 2010) and Josephine (Catalano) DiZazzo (1923 - 2001). Both parents were natives of Lawrence Massachusetts. Mary's grandparents were immigrants. The DiZazzo family was from Rocca d'Evandro, Caserta, Italy. The Catalano and related Cosentino families were from Aci Catena, Catania, Sicily, and Aci Sant'Antonio, Catania. On September 29, 2003, Mary was wed to David Trumbull, in Rome, Italy.

In addition to love of family and the Boston arts and theatre scene, Mary was proud of her trade as a cosmetologist. She followed her mother and grandmother in this trade and earned her credentials at the M. Fazio Institute of Beauty Culture, Class of '74. She worked in various beauty salons until she operated her own business, Mary for Nails, from March 1996, until, due to declining health, she had to shutter the business in March 2018. Mary was a columnist for the Post-Gazette, The Italian-American Voice of Massachusetts, where she wrote her "All That Zazz" beauty culture column since August, 2003.

In retirement she continued to support the trade she had taken such pride in. Even in her recuperative bed she renewed her Commonwealth of Massachusetts license as a Cosmetologist. She gave back to her trade and encouraged its future by agreeing, in April 2015, to serve on the Greater Lawrence Technical School Cosmetology Advisory Board. She also gave talks on beauty culture talks at the North End Branch of the Boston Public Library.

Mary's hobbies were too many to list, but what stands out was her dollhouse and the miniature furnishing. The dollhouse had its own address to which a weekly newspaper was delivered. In 2014, the Beacon Hill Times newspaper published a front-page story about Mary's dollhouse. The reporter, upon receiving a photo of the dollhouse said, "I see your living room, but where is the dollhouse?" Mary responded, "That is the living room of the dollhouse." That same year the Newseum, a museum in Washington DC published an online story about Mary's diminutive domicile.

Donations may be made in her name to the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, 185 Kneeland Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02111, or to your favorite organization that advocates for rights of disabled persons. Masses or other expressions of sympathy may be sent to David Trumbull, 130 Bowdoin St, Apartment 1110, Boston, MA 02108, or to trumbull@trumbullofboston.org.

Final arrangements are through Boston Cremation, 287 Main St, Malden, MA 02148 (info@bostoncremation.org). No public ceremonies are planned.

The final words:

"She made me a better man." -- David Trumbull