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Contract Award: Halter Marine (Pascagoula, Mississippi) – $149,053,160

Halter Marine, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $149,053,160 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to definitize contract number N00024-19-C-2208 for the detail design and construction of one oceanographic survey ship (T-AGS 67). Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (76%); Harahan, Louisiana (8%); Belle Chase, Louisiana (4.5%);  Alpharetta, Georgia (4.5%); Mathews, Louisiana (2.3%); Axis, Alabama (2%); Houston, Texas (1.5%); and Sherwood, Oregon (1.2%). Fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $149,053,160 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.



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