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Navy/USMC

GAO: New Navy Maintenance Approach Lowers Costs But Still Runs Late

Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

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GAO: New Navy Maintenance Approach Lowers Costs But Still Runs Late

Figure 8: Schedule Growth for 41 CNO Availabilities under the MAC-MO Strategy from May 11, 2020 GAO Report on Navy Ship maintenance

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released May 11 finds while the newer 2015 onward way the Navy contracts for ship repair has helped lower costs it still runs over schedule. In 2015, the Navy moved from Multi-Ship, Multi-Option (MSMO) to a Multiple Award Contract-Multi-Order (MAC-MO) approach to contract out work for ship maintenance to try to get more work done on time at a lower cost. GAO found that since this change the service has increased competition opportunities, gained…

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