Austal: $584.2M LCS mod pact

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., was awarded a not-to-exceed the congressional cost cap of $584,200,000 fixed-price-incentive firm target modification to a previously awarded contract (N00024-17-C-2301) to exercise the option for the construction of a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Austal USA will perform and oversee all necessary design, planning, construction and test and trials activities in support of delivery of this ship to the Navy. The Navy expects to release a competitive solicitation(s) for additional LCS class ships in future years, and therefore the specific contract award amount for these ships 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 Mobile (54%); Pittsfield, Mass. (9%); California, Md. (4%); Cincinnati, Ohio (4%); Leesburg, Va. (3%); Williston, Vt. (3%); Linthicum, Md. (3%); East Syracuse, NY (2%); Franklin, Mass. (2%); and various other locations of less than 2% each (totaling 16%), and is expected to be completed by October 2023. FY 2017 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding, not-to-exceed the congressional cost cap of $584,200,000, for construction of one FY-17 LCS will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, DC, is the contracting activity. (Source: DOD 10/06/17) UPDATE: The Naval Sea Systems Command also awarded the Marinette, Wis.-based Lockheed Martin team a separate contracts to build one Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Both contracts are under the $584M congressional cost cap per LCS. The Navy said specific LCS award amounts are not being made public because it considers it source selection sensitive information. The Navy noted it expects to release a competitive solicitation for future-year LCS. Austal will perform and oversee necessary design, planning, construction, test and trials activities to support delivery of LCS-30. It will be the 15th LCS that Austal has built. Austal delivered two LCS on schedule in 2016, and one of two so far this year. It delivered the future USS Omaha (LCS-12) last month.