Summary of Experience

Technicians install overhead transmission lines

After forging a strong bond while serving together in southwestern Afghanistan for USAID in 2003-2004, the Louis Berger Group and Cummins Power Generation formed the Berger/Cummins Joint Venture to serve the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Today we provide a synergistic team that combines the Louis Berger Group - one of the world's premiere engineering and program management firms, with Cummins - the largest and most diversified designer and manufacturer of engines and generator set equipment worldwide, now to include the QSK95 - the world's largest and most powerful high speed diesel engine at 4,000 hp and 3.5MW in genset applications. We take tremendous pride in working successfully together in harsh and dangerous environments, while exceeding client expectations on the toughest assignments.

Under contract initially with USACE since 2004 and serving in Iraq since 2007, USACE awarded Berger/Cummins with follow-on separate indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts (IDIQs) in September 2010 for Worldwide Power in support of US Forces contingency operations worldwide and in October 2011 to support Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) in Afghanistan. Both IDIQs have five-year durations and $490 million in capacity each.

While in Iraq from 2007 through the end of 2011, Berger/Cummins designed and built a total of six power plants on four US Military bases. Our sites included the 31MW Victory Base Complex West (VBC-W) plant, 15MW at FOB Falcon, 74MW at Victory Base Complex East (VBC-E), 35MW at Al Asad Air Base and two other 6MW plants - one on the Radwaniyah Palace Complex (RPC) and another on Sather Air Force Base. These sites included new construction and installation of over 40 kilometers of 11kV overhead distribution, more than 700,000 gallons of combined fuel storage, along with maintenance facilities, warehousing and living accommodations for our staff of up to 160 personnel.

Currently in Afghanistan Berger/Cummins is serving on five sites. Our Camp Nathan Smith plant supporting US Military stability operations in Kandahar City was established in the spring of 2011. We also have mobilization and power plant and underground distribution system construction underway on Camp Marmal, at the foot of the Marmal mountains in north central Afghanistan near Mazir-e-Sharif; on FOB Konduz, 50 kilometers south of the Tajik border in northeastern Afghanistan; on MNB Tarin Kot which is a Multi-National Base in Uruzgan Province north of Kandahar; and we provide operations and maintenance (O&M) for a GFE power plant and distribution system on Kandahar Air Field (KAF).

Also, in a timeframe spanning eight months from August 2010 until February 2011, Berger/Cummins successfully designed and constructed a 10MW turnkey plant on Bushrod Island in Monrovia, Liberia funded by USAID for the Liberia Electric Corporation. The scope included a 22kV intertie to the existing 69kV city grid and 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel storage. This project more than doubled the pre-existing commercial power availability for the people of Monrovia. Presiding at the dedication ceremony was the President of Liberia and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

The Berger/Cummins Joint Venture is managed by Louis Berger's Global Operation Energy Systems (GOES) business unit, based in Washington, DC with project offices in Kabul, Kandahar and Dubai. The JV is supported by the respective firms' local offices, support centers, and more than 600 distributors in approximately 190 countries worldwide.