ABS gets $25m contract for Navy's vessel classification services

American Bureau of Shipping, Houston, Texas, is being awarded an $8,500,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price task orders to provide vessel classification services in accordance with statute 46 U.S.C. 3316, the US DofD said in a contracts statement.

This contract includes two 12-month options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $25,000,000. Work will be performed worldwide, and work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2014. If all option periods are exercised, work will continue through September 2016.

Contract funds will not be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued using fiscal 2014 working capital funds. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with FAR 6.302-5(c)(2)(i).

The Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-13-D-8015).