Greenville's Fluor secures $48 million bump in naval contract
A division of Fluor in Greenville has secured an additional $48.1 million for ongoing work under way at a U.S. Navy engineering facility in Florida.
The money is part of a contract modification between Fluor Federal Solutions of Greenville, a division of the Texas-based Fluor Corp., and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, in Jacksonville. After the modification, the total contract value will come to $275 million.
The original contract covered base support services at various installations under the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast and left open some delivery and quantity options, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Fluor spokesman Brett Turner said in an email to The Greenville News that personnel in Greenville provide home-office support for the work down in Florida.
"The jobs are pretty well self-contained and don't require a lot of reach back," he wrote. "Our Arlington, Va., office also provides support."
Turner said Fluor has held a contract with the U.S. Navy since 2011 to provide operations support services at Navy bases and installations in the greater Jacksonville area.
"Providing quality, cost-effective solutions to the Navy is work that our employees take great pride in," he wrote.
Fluor's work in Jacksonville includes regional base-operating support in the areas of port operations, facilities, environmental services, and support vehicles and equipment. All the work under the $275 million contract will take place in Jacksonville, and the contract's planned completion date is June 2018.
Fluor, previously known as Fluor Daniel, is a publicly traded firm that provides engineering services as well as construction management, maintenance, and project leadership for clients in government and industry worldwide.
The global workforce of this $19 billion company exceeds 60,000, and Fluor reported $326 million in profits for the year 2016. The naval contract comes under Fluor's Government segment, which carries out about a fifth of the company's work by dollar amount.
About 2,400 people work at Fluor's facility in Greenville, according to the Greenville Area Development Corp.
This story was originally published July 1, 2017 at 7:29 PM with the headline "Greenville's Fluor secures $48 million bump in naval contract."