With new contracts awarded, DeCA set to break ground for new commissaries

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This is an artist's rendering of the new commissary to be built in Livorno, Italy. The facility is one of two new grocery stores in the planning stages by the Defense Commissary Agency-Europe.


With new contracts awarded, DeCA set to break ground for new commissaries
By Kevin Dougherty, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, October 31, 2007


The Defense Commissary Agency plans to break ground — at least ceremoniously — by year’s end on new grocery stores in Chievres, Belgium, and Livorno, Italy.

On behalf of DeCA, the U.S. military recently awarded $23.4 million in construction contracts to two companies, one for each location, according to Gerri Young, spokeswoman for DeCA-Europe. Both facilities should be completed by spring 2009.

The largest and more expensive project is the $16.2 million facility at Chievres Air Base, which supports U.S. personnel assigned to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in nearby Mons. That contract went to Belgian contractor Lixon S.A. of Charleroi, one of two bidders, Young said.

Located on Camp Darby, the Livorno commissary would cost about $7.2 million. The winning bid, one of 12 tendered, was from Cooperativa Muratori Riuniti, a firm that also built the commissary in Vicenza, Italy.

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While the new Chievres store will be considerably larger than its counterpart in Italy, it will feature some of the same amenities. Like Livorno, the new Chievres commissary will have more floor space, meaning wider aisles and larger display areas.

In a news release, Thomas Milks, director of DeCA-Europe, said the projects “will bring commissary operations in both Chievres and Livorno” to a higher standard “for our military families.”


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