La. shipyard's $129.9M mod pact

Gulf Island Shipyards of Houma, La., is awarded a $129,925,080 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-18-C-2207) to exercise options for the construction of two additional towing, salvage and rescue ships (T-ATS) and for the performance of unique item identification on the T-ATS 6-class program. Work will be performed in Houma. The contract also includes options for associated support efforts related to the ship design and construction for special studies, engineering and industrial services, provisioned items orders, unique item identification and data rights license. Work is expected to be complete by October 2022. FY 2020 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funding in the amount of $129,925,080 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Sea Systems Command of Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD 03/25/20)