Austal pact: $16.4M for LCS-18

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., is awarded $16,459,663 for cost-plus-award-fee order N6931618F4003 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 Charleston’s (LCS-18) post shakedown availability (PSA). The PSA is accomplished within a period of about 16-to-20 weeks between the time of ship’s custody transfer to the Navy and the Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy (SCN) obligation work limiting date. Efforts will include program management, advance planning, engineering, design, prefabrication, and material kitting. Work will be performed in Mobile (60 percent) and San Diego (40 percent). It is expected to be completed by August 2019. FY 2014 /18 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $8,550,000 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 09/26/18)