The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce the award of advisory and assistance services contracts to Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Va. Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., Gaithersburg, Md. (HQ0147-10-D-0012); and QinetiQ North America, Fairfax, Va.

      Each firm is being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide advisory and assistance services to the Security and Intelligence Operations (DXS) directorate.

      The contractors will assist the DXS directorate in providing information assurance, security, intelligence and counterintelligence services to protect the MDA and Ballistic Missile Defense Systems technologies.

      This procurement is managed by the MDA engineering and support services program office. This program office is responsible for centrally managing the acquisition of advisory and assistance services for the agency.

      These contracts are being competitively awarded under the full and open, unrestricted, request for proposal HQ0147-09-R-0002.

      Each contract has a not-to-exceed ordering ceiling of $365,728,000. The companies will have the opportunity to bid on each individual task order. Work under these contracts will be performed in Huntsville, Ala., and other MDA locations. The performance period is through June 2015. Obligations will be made by task orders using research, development, test and evaluation funds.