CTC awarded $10.4M NATO contract

By SHAWN PIATEK
The Tribune-Democrat

August 07, 2008 10:24 pm

— Concurrent Technologies Corp. announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a $10.4 million contract from NATO to provide quality-management system services at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan.
The competitively bid contract was awarded by NATO’s Maintenance and Supply Agency. Under terms of the deal, CTC will spend the next three years auditing and assuring that contracts associated with the airfield are done through processes that provide the highest quality at the best prices.
“Quality is a way of life for all employees at CTC,” said CEO Dan DeVos. “We’re pleased to be able to work with the many military and civilian NATO forces that provide these all-important services at the Kandahar Airfield.”
Jerry Hudson, vice president and chief quality officer at CTC, said six staff members will work in Kandahar to execute the contract. Employees working on the project will be rotated every four to six months because of the dangerous working conditions inherent to the site.
The company will hire three to five people to perform the duties.
Hudson said CTC has performed similar work in the past for the U.S. Department of Defense. But he noted that this contract is significant because it represents growth in this area of the company’s business.
“We have never done anything like this in terms of its location and magnitude as a quality-management site,” Hudson said.
“From a CTC perspective, this is big because we have been wanting to add more diversity to what we do. Clearly, winning an award from NATO helps us to do that.”