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Coast Guard Will Recompete OPC In FY ’24; General Program Design Details Released

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, September 16th, 2016

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Coast Guard Will Recompete OPC In FY ’24; General Program Design Details Released

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 still plans to recompete production of its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) before half of the planned buy of 25 vessels are purchased with a Request for Proposals currently expected to be issued for new bids in FY ’24, a service spokesman told Defense Daily on Friday.Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group on Thursday was awarded a potential $2.4 billion contract by the Coast Guard for detail design and production of up to nine OPCs. The initial order is for…

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