Contract Award: Vigor Marine Inc. (Portland, Oregon) – $17,044,892

Vigor Marine Inc., Portland, Oregon, is awarded a $17,044,892 firm-fixed-price contract for a 75-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry docking of USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7).  Work will include clean and gas-free tanks, voids, cofferdams and spaces, propulsion motor and cooler, main generator maintenance and cleaning, high voltage switchboard and emergency switchboard cleaning, five-year main engine flex hose replacement, dry-docking and undocking, propeller shaft and stern tube inspect, freshwater (closed loop) stern tube lubrication, underwater hull cleaning and painting, freeboard cleaning and painting, sea valve replacements, renew flight deck nonskid, and reverse osmosis unit sea-chest installation. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $19,374,570.  Work will be performed in Portland, Oregon, and is expected to be completed by May 15, 2019.  Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $17,044,892 are obligated at the time of award.  Funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  This contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received.  The U. S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N3220519C6004).