$16.3M Austal pact for LCS-20 EIPDA

Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., is awarded a $16,322,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee order against previously awarded contract (N00024-11-C-2301) to provide engineering, management, and production services in support of prefabrication efforts, material procurement, and execution of work items for the Littoral Combat Ship USS Cincinnati’s (LCS-20) extended industrial post-delivery availability. EIPDA is accomplished within a period of approximately 12 weeks between the time of ship custody transfer to the Navy and the shipbuilding and conversion, and the Navy's obligation work limiting date. Efforts will include program management, advance planning, engineering, design, prefabrication, and material kitting. Work will be performed in Mobile and is expected to be complete by August 2019. FY 2014 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $5,011,000; FY-19 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $2,550,000; and FY-18 other Navy procurement funding in the amount of $600,000 will be obligated at time of award, and funds 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 01/24/19)