Contract: Ingalls, $1.5B

Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $1,514,080,000 fixed-price-incentive modification to previously awarded contract for the procurement of the detail design and construction of Landing Platform Dock ship (LPD 27), it will incorporate the previously purchased long lead time material efforts and the necessary labor and remaining material to efficiently construct the ship. Work will be done in Pascagoula (82 percent), Crozet, Va. (4 percent), Beloit, Wis. (2 percent), and New Orleans, La. (1 percent), with other efforts performed at various sites throughout the United States (11 percent). Work is expected to be completed by June 2017. This contract was awarded on a sole-source basis and was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 07/27/12)