It’s a surprisingly simple concept. Why ship walls, concrete, or even concrete barriers, when you can ship collapsible forms that can quickly be filled with sand or dirt by any untrained person? Why use sandbags with their inherent gaps and manual fills, when the collapsible forms provide full cover, and can be filled in a fraction of the time using engineering vehicles?
Uses abound, from gabions and flood control, to stopping bullets and even rockets. When you’re done, just empty the forms, fold them flat again, and ship them out. Systems of this type have been used by the military since the 1991 war in Kuwait. Someone in the US military obviously understood their extreme usefulness to current “seize and hold” operations, because the last few years have seen a series of rather large contracts…
Contracts & Key Events
Hesco walls
Hesco Bastion Ltd’s Concertainer is a prefabricated, multi-cellular system, made of Galfan coated steel Weldmesh and lined with non-woven polypropylene geotextile. It is delivered flat-packed on standard timber skids or pallets. Units can be extended and joined, then filled.
Unless the entry says otherwise, the USA’s Defense Supply Center Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA manages these contracts.
April 13/10: A billion for barriers. Hesco Bastion Ltd. wins a fixed-price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for protective barriers, on behalf of U.S. Forces in CENTCOM’s area of responsibility. This 2-year base contract has 2 more 1-year options, with an estimated annual value of $100 million and a maximum total value of $1 billion.
The original proposal was Web solicited with 7 responses (SPM8E6-10-D-0008).
June 16/08: Hesco Bastion Ltd. of Great Britain received a maximum $800 million fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for “facilities maintenance” from the US Army and Marine Corps. DID is investigating the relationship to past contracts.
The original proposal was Web solicited with 2 responses. Date of performance completion is June 12/10 (SPM8E6-08-D-0252).
Dec 17/07: Hesco Bastion Ltd. in Great Britain received a maximum $195 million fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for Concertainer Defense Walls from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Facilities maintenance, Class IV IST is exercising the first 90-day option on this bridge contract, and this extension is valid until March 16/08, which is the date of performance completion (SPM500-04-D-0239).
Sept 17/07: Hesco Bastion Ltd. of Leeds, UK (there is also a Hesco Bastion USA in Hammond, La.) received a $717 million fixed price with economic price adjustment, bridge contract for Hesco Bastion Concertainer Defense Walls. The Hesco forms will be used the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps., and the contract is for an odd period: 90 days, with two 90-day options. The date of performance completion is Dec 17/08 (SPM500-04-D-0239).
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