VTHM pact to construct ice breaker

VT Halter Marine of Pascagoula, Miss., is awarded a $745,940,860 fixed-price incentive-firm contract for the detail design and construction of the Coast Guard’s Polar Security Cutter (formerly Heavy Polar Ice Breaker). The PSC program is a multiple year Department of Homeland Security investment and a CG major system acquisition to acquire up to three multi-mission PSCs to recapitalize the CG fleet of heavy icebreakers, which have exhausted their design service life. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $1,942,812,266. Work will be performed in Pascagoula (61%); Metairie, La. (12%); New Orleans (12%); San Diego (4%); Mossville, Ill. (4%); Mobile, Ala. (2%); Boca Raton, Fla. (2%); and various other locations (3%), and is expected to be completed by June 2024. If all options are exercised, work will continue through November 2027. FY 2019 Coast Guard procurement, construction, and improvement funds; and FY-18/17 Nvy shipbuilding and conversion funds in the amount of $839,224,287 will be obligated at time of award, and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with three offers received. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 04/23/19)