The Pentagon has a bidding process with private companies for the maintenance and support of North American facilities at the Morón joint use area base (Seville). According to the conditions of the contract, the North American administration is looking for someone to provide service in Morón with a horizon of XXX years in commitment, as until now, renewable.
Next May 1st, The contract for Morón enters the Solicitation Issuance phase. In the North American administration’s procurement system, it is the moment when, after a period of consultation with contractors, the government (in this case the European command of the US Air Force, in delegation to the Pentagon) formally publishes the demand for the service.
The process began on January 28, obtaining confirmation in March. In the North American military administration, the contract is classified with code 561210, corresponding to “Installation Support Services.” In the bureaucratic language of the American Air Force, they are the BOS, Base Operation Services.
To implement it, the military in charge of the contract have maintained contacts with industry specialists. Last week, representatives of various companies – two for each firm; The names of these companies do not transcend They were visiting the Morón baseconfirm sources from the military installation.
In Spain, until 2035
The conditions of the US tender for Morón set January 2028 as the deadline to begin operating with the new contract. This tender, in the case of Spain, is proposed with a minimum duration of three years and a maximum of seven. In the case of Türkiye, the Pentagon is considering a maximum duration of 5 years, given “the economic risks associated with labor and monetary volatility” in the country.
As in the case that has recently emerged from the search for bidder for the maintenance of US destroyers at the Rota docksthis Morón contract that the North American Department of Defense has in place – called “War” by the administration Trump– does not endorse the threats made by the American president about removing the North American allied military presence from Spain – and other European countries.
The renewal of the US contract to support facilities at the Morón de la Frontera air base brings a first substantive novelty: for the first time, The tender is not joint with another that has the same objective for the Turkish Incirlik air base (to which, by the way, Spain is providing protection with Patriot launchers at the request of NATO).
The sources familiar with the contract consulted by this newspaper do not give any meaning to this decision to divide the contracts. The Pentagon explains in the preamble to the tender that, After exploring the market, it may be more favorable for you to negotiate two contracts at each end of the Mediterranean than just one for work at the two bases.
Inherit the workers
In the case of Türkiye, the Pentagon has decided to remove cleaning, dining, gardening and landscaping tasks from the BOS provided by the US Air Force or the maintenance of a golf course inside the enclosureall of which can be contracted directly with local supply and service companies.
In the Spanish case, the conditions of the contract establish that the new contractor must “initially” assume the workforce of Spanish workers left by the previous one. Since 2010, The Spanish squad has been suffering from EREs: While local workers leave, new North American hires enter.
Currently, just over 30 Spanish workers – there were 240 – remain providing service on the runway for the current contractor, the Texan firm KBR, a spin-off of the military contractor Halliburtonof which the retired lieutenant general of the US Air Force has been a partner and director Wendy Masiello.
Another 600 civilians hired at the Morón base work for the Ministry of Defense. The thirty employees of KBR are renegotiating their collective agreement, of which traditionally a central part is Each new contractor chosen by the Pentagon must subrogate the contracts of the staff former. In addition, the agreement includes a pension plan for workers and bonuses for seniority in the workplace.
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