Latest DofD Navy Contracts

December 24, 2013

The latest US Department of Defense, Navy, contracts include: to Defense Support Services LLC for 'COLDS' cargo training, and to Hornbeck Offshore Services for the time charter of an offshore supply vessel for submarine rescue diving support services. Details as follows:

'COLDS' training
Defense Support Services LLC, Mount Laurel, N.J., is being awarded a $24,903,892 indefinite-delivery requirements contract for instructional support services to conduct basic and advanced courses on the Navy's Cargo Offload and Discharge System (COLDS).

The contract includes the the operation and maintenance of Navy Lighterage and Improved Navy Lighterage System powered and non-powered craft, other COLDS subsystems, and continued Contractor Instruction, Maintenance, Operations and Training Support, which yields qualified COLDS graduates. 

Offshore Supply Vessel Charter
Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC, Covington, La., is being awarded an $8,080,209 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00033-11-C-2000) to exercise a one-year option for the time charter of one offshore supply vessel, HOS Dominator.

The ship's primary mission will be to provide submarine rescue diving and recompression system support service, in support of Commander, Submarine Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet.  Work will be performed at sea on the U.S. East Coast, U.S. West Coast, Hawaii and Alaska, and is expected to be completed by December 2014.
 

HOS Dominator: Photo credit MSC
HOS Dominator: Photo credit MSC

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