Agility Wins USAID Food Assistance Contract

Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:49am EDT
 
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Company to handle pre-positioning and logistics of humanitarian aid
STRATFORD, Conn.--(Business Wire)--
Agility Defense & Government Services (DGS), a leading provider of logistics and
supply chain services, won a contract to manage the receipt, warehousing and
re-export of food aid and commodities for the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID). 

The contract is an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity award with a
one-year base and four one-year options. The potential value of the contract is
$10 million a year, or $50 million over five years. 

Under the first task order, valued at $4 million, Agility DGS will receive and
store food aid at Jacintoport in Houston in preparation for shipment to Djibouti
Free Zone in Djibouti, Africa. Agility DGS will be responsible for receipt,
warehousing and movement at both locations. 

In addition, Agility DGS can be called on to provide regionally based
pre-position warehousing in Durban, South Africa; Lome, Togo; Mombasa, Kenya;
and Colombo, Sri Lanka. 

The USAID award is part of the strategic diversification of Agility DGS. DGS is
successfully performing logistics work for international institutions by
offering supply chain services in support of humanitarian, stabilization and
peacekeeping efforts in Africa and elsewhere. 

About Agility Defense & Government Services

Agility Defense & Government Services is the public sector arm of Agility. It
provides complete supply chain management, logistics services and commodity
services to defense and government customers. With more than 550 offices in 120
countries, Agility DGS and its parent offer a vast network of global land, sea
and air transportation capabilities, including warehousing and storage. 

For more information, contact Jim Cox, Agility DGS vice president of public
affairs and marketing, at +1.703.417.6050 or at jcox@agilitylogistics.com, or
visit www.agilitylogistics.com.

Agility DGS
Jim Cox, 703-417-6050
jcox@agilitylogistics.com

Copyright Business Wire 2009

 

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