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Coast Guard Awards Bollinger $79 Million For Two FRCs

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

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Coast Guard Awards Bollinger $79 Million For Two FRCs

Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter Norvell, based in Miami, recently interdicted a go-fast vessel carrying 18 bales of cocaine in waters near the Dominican Republic. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard has exercised a contract option with Bollinger Shipyards for the construction of two Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) for $79.2 million, bringing to 32 the number of Sentinel-class vessels the service has ordered from the shipbuilder.The delivery order is the final contract option in Phase I of the FRC program, which last Friday reentered a new competitive phase with the release of a Request for Proposals to build the remaining 26 vessels to fulfill the Coast Guard’s requirement…

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