Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded $10,252,142 for cost-plus-award-fee order 7F20 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 Littoral Combat Ship, USS Manchester (LCS-14) post shakedown availability (PSA). The PSA is accomplished within a period of approximately 16-20 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 percent); and San Diego, Calif. (40 percent), and is expected to be completed by July 2019. Fiscal 2013 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $2,494,932 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 04/05/18)
