Vigor Marine gets $42,2M contract for DDG 102 repair and alteration

Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Oregon, is awarded a $42,232,222 firm-fixed-price contract to prepare for and accomplish repair and alteration requirements for USS Sampson (DDG 102) CNO-Scheduled Dry-Docking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) in support of the DDG 51-class destroyer ship repair program, the DoD said in Navy's contracts announcement.

For Navy surface combatants, typical repair and maintenance work to be performed in a DSRA includes modernization ship alterations; blasting, painting and surface preparation for complete or touch-up preservation; work on freeboard, struts, rudders, running gear, ground tackle and sea chest; hull, mechanical and electrical work and work on various interior tanks.

Work will be performed in Seattle, Washington (90 percent); and Everett, Washington (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by April 2019.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding; and fiscal 2018 Department of Defense working capital funds in the amount of $42,232,222 are obligated at time of award, of which $40,983,811 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington, is the contracting activity.