Ingalls DDG-51 pact: $27M

Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $27,079,692 cost-plus-award-fee contract for DDG 51 class follow-yard services (FYS). FYS provides necessary engineering, technical, material procurement and production support; configuration; class flight and baseline upgrades and new technology support; data and logistics management; lessons learned analysis; acceptance trials; post-delivery test and trials; post shakedown availability support; reliability and maintainability; system safety program support; material and fleet turnover support; shipyard engineering team; turnkey; crew indoctrination, design tool/design standardization, detail design development, and other technical and engineering analyses for the purpose of supporting DDG 51 class ship construction and test and trials. In addition, DDG 51 class FYS may provide design, engineering, procurement and manufacturing/production services to support design feasibility studies and analyses that modify DDG 51 class destroyers for Foreign Military Sales programs sponsored by the Defense and Navy departments. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $181,413,887. Work will be performed in Pascagoula (97.8%); Washington, D.C. (1.7%); and Bath, Maine (0.6%). It is expected to be completed by April 2019. If all options are exercised, work will continue through April 2023. FYs 2018, 2014 and 2017 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amounts of $13,564,247, $10,193,136, $1,767,250 (respectively) will be obligated at time of award and not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 04/16/18 Ingalls has delivered 30 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the Navy. Destroyers currently under construction at HII-Pascagoula include Paul Ignatius (DDG 117), Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) and Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123).