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Coast Guard Writing RFP For New FRC Competition

Coast Guard Writing RFP For New FRC Competition
Fast Response Cutter underway. Photo: Bollinger Shipyards

The Coast Guard is in the process of developing a solicitation to procure the remainder of its planned Fast Response Cutters (FRCs), which are currently being built by Bollinger Shipyards but will be reopened for competition, Commandant Adm. Bob Papp told a House panel on March 12. Papp told the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee that the service is doing an extensive scrub of the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the FRC to find all the savings it can for…

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