Austal USA LLC, Mobile, Ala., is awarded an $8,171,202 firm-fixed-price modification to delivery order N69316-19-F-5202 against previously-awarded basic ordering agreement N00024-16-G-2218 to accomplish the post-shakedown availability and dry docking for USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10). This effort encompasses all of the manpower, support services, material, non-standard equipment and associated technical data and documentation required to prepare for and accomplish the USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) post-shakedown availability and dry docking. The purpose of this task is to implement the 10-knot Sea State 5 bow modification on EPF 10. The modification includes all design and review efforts to satisfy American Bureau of Shipping requirements for High Speed Naval Craft classification, to include a new safe operating envelope for EPF 10 (increasing the safe operating envelope to allow for 10-knot speed at Sea State 5 in all headings). Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Miss., and is expected to be completed by February 2020. Fiscal 2013 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $4,085,601 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, is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 10/22/19)
