Area construction firm lands yet another defense contract

134th Air Refueling Wing photo.

134th Air Refueling Wing photo.

A Dayton construction company has secured a second hefty defense contract in little more than a week.

Messer Construction Co. was awarded a $28,968,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a maintenance hangar, maintenance hangar area, general purpose shop area, corrosion control area and avionics shop area in Knoxville, Tenn.

Knoxville is home to McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, headquarters for the 134th Air Refueling Wing and 119th Command and Control Squadron.

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Bids were solicited via the internet with four received, the Department of Defense said in an announcement this week. Estimated completion of the project will be Aug. 15, 2021, the DoD said.

Fiscal 2019 military construction funds in the amount of more than $28.9 million were obligated at the time of the award.

The U.S. Property and Fiscal Office, Tennessee, is the contracting activity in this project.

Last week, the DoD announced that Messer was awarded a $7,375,000 contract for renovation of basement and addition to Building 45 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the state’s largest single-site employer with some 30,000 military and civilian employees on site.

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