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Coast Guard Issues RFP For New Round Of Offshore Patrol Cutter Competition

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 1st, 2021

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Coast Guard Issues RFP For New Round Of Offshore Patrol Cutter Competition

Notional OPC design is 360-feet long, a 54-foot beam, and 17-foot draft. House appropriators propose to fully fund the program in FY '22. (Graphic: Eastern Shipbuilding Group.)

The Coast Guard late last Friday began asking for bids for the second round of design and construction of its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) with a contract award for up to 11 ships expected in the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. Under the planned contract for Stage 2 of the OPC program, the winning shipbuilder would receive a construction contract for the first ship in FY ’23, followed by single ship production contracts in fiscal years 2024 and 2005…

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