Armstrong Marine awarded contract for barges and ship paint and maintenance
Armstrong Marine Inc., Port Angeles, Wash., is being awarded a $38,362,181 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of marine paint and maintenance barges and associated installation, support, shipping and travel, the U.S. DofD said in its contract announcement.
The maintenance barge will be used specifically to enable painting and maintenance along the breadth and height of hulls of all submarines and surface ship classes. It will also be used to prevent contact with the delicate appendages while berthing or mooring.
The resultant award will provide up to 15 marine paint/maintenance barge with 45-foot scissor-type high-lift and low-lift, 30 marine paint/maintenance barges with 45-foot articulating-arm high lift platform and 15 marine paint/maintenance barges with 65-ft articulating-arm lift platform.
Work will be conducted at various ship homeport locations within and outside the continental United States as required and is expected to complete by September 2018. Fiscal 2011 other procurement, Navy contract funds in the amount of $398,449 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one offer received. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Ship System Engineering Station, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (N65540-13-D-0024).