# Notice of Award for Sole Source Firm Fixed-Price (FFP) PMA-242 IDIQ Contract for GAU-21 .50 Caliber Machine Guns and Required Ancillary Support Equipment

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/n0001924r0022

- Solicitation number: N00019-24-R-0022
- Notice type: Award notice
- Status: Awarded to FN Herstal S.A. for $21,470,483.80
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: Naval Air Systems Command (N00019)
- NAICS: 332994 Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing
- Product or service code: 1010 Guns, over 30 mm up to 75 mm
- Place of performance: Herstal, BEL
- First posted: February 24, 2025
- Last posted: February 24, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/83cc068c21af40adb719659dd368a1dd/view

## Description

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Direct and Time Sensitive Strike Weapons Program Office (PMA-242), awarded a Firm Fixed-Price (FFP) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to FN Herstal, under N00019-25-D-0023 on 16 January 2025. This contract is for the procurement of GAU-21 .50 caliber machine guns and the required ancillary support equipment. This contract was awarded on a sole source basis under the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C.

2304 (c)(1) as implemented by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 6.302-1, only one responsible source and no other services will satisfy agency requirements. FN Herstal is the sole designer, developer, and manufacturer of the GAU-21, and as such, is the only known source available with the requisite technical knowledge, experience and tooling to produce the requirements described herein, in order to satisfy the government’s requirement.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001925F0265 under N0001925D0023, delivery order
- Obligated: $1,355,406.96
- Competition: Not Competed
- Link: solicitation number N0001924R0022 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0001925F0265_9700_N0001925D0023_9700/

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001925F1016 under N0001925D0023, delivery order
- Obligated: $142,075.60
- Competition: Not Competed
- Link: solicitation number N0001924R0022 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0001925F1016_9700_N0001925D0023_9700/

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001925F2223 under N0001925D0023, delivery order
- Obligated: $2,557,360.80
- Competition: Not Competed
- Link: solicitation number N0001924R0022 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0001925F2223_9700_N0001925D0023_9700/

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001926F0124 under N0001925D0023, delivery order
- Obligated: $3,822,040.95
- Competition: Not Competed
- Link: solicitation number N0001924R0022 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N0001926F0124_9700_N0001925D0023_9700/

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001925D0001
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: solicitation number N0001924R0022 equals the FPDS solicitation identifier; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_N0001925D0001_9700/

- Recipient: FN Herstal S.A. (UEI KJ2JPWZ5HY55)
- Contract: N0001925D0023
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Not Competed, 1 offers received
- Link: award number N0001925D0023 equals the contract number; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_N0001925D0023_9700/


## Publications

- February 24, 2025: Award notice. Notice 83cc068c21af40adb719659dd368a1dd. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/83cc068c21af40adb719659dd368a1dd/view

## Points of contact

- Ryan Thompson, joshua.r.thompson56.civ@us.navy.mil
- Kathryn L. Volpe, kathryn.l.volpe2.civ@us.navy.mil

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