$10.2M Austal pact for LCS 14

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., is being awarded $10,252,142 for cost-plus-award-fee order 7F20 against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-15-G-2304) to provide engineering and management services in support of work specification development, prefabrication efforts, and material procurement for Littoral Combat Ship, USS Manchester (LCS-14) post shakedown availability. The PSA is accomplished within a period of approximately 16-20 weeks between the time of ship custody transfer to the Navy and the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy Obligation Work Limiting date. Efforts will include program management, advance planning, engineering, design, prefabrication, and material kitting. Work will be performed in Mobile (60%); and San Diego (40%), and is expected to be completed by July 2019. FY 2013 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $2,494,932 will be obligated at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast of Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 04/05/18) The LCS program is operating at a full rate of production with six ships under construction and two set to commence in 2019. Charleston (LCS 18) is preparing for trials; final assembly is underway on Cincinnati (LCS 20) and Kansas City (LCS 22); and Independence-variant modules for Oakland (LCS 24) and Mobile (LCS 26) are under construction. (Source: DoD 04/05/18)