Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Contract: HII, amount withheld

Huntington Ingalls Industries of Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive-firm target modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-13-C-2307) for incorporation of the Flight III baseline on DDG 125. Flight III will incorporate the SPY-6 (Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) and upgrade the electrical power and cooling capacity plus additional associated changes. As this award represents the first DDG 51 Flight III baseline contract award, and the Navy expects to release a competitive solicitation for additional DDG 51 class ships in the Flight III configuration in future years. The contract award amount is considered source selection sensitive information (see 41 U.S. Code 2101, et seq., Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101 and FAR 3.104) and will not be made public at this time. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, (60%); Cincinnati, Ohio (7%); Walpole, Mass. (5%); York, Pa. (2%); Camden, N.J. (1%); Erie, Pa. (1%); Charlottesville, Va. (1%); and other locations below 1 percent (collectively 23%), and is scheduled to complete in FY 2024. FY 2017 Navy shipbuilding and conversion will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD, 06/27/17) Here's a link to an HII media release on the modification contract at http://newsroom.huntingtoningalls.com/releases/photo-release-huntington-ingalls-industries-awarded-contract-to-build-destroyer-jack-h-lucas-ddg-125