$14.8M Austal contract for Tulsa PSA

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., is awarded a $14,843,400 cost-plus-award-fee order (N6931618F4001) 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 the Littoral Combat Ship USS Tulsa (LCS 16) post-shakedown availability (PSA). The PSA is accomplished within a period from 16-to-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%) – homeport for Independence variant LCS built by Austal. The contract is expected to be completed by August 2019. FY 2018 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $7,275,355 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair-Gulf Coast of Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 07/31/18)