Detyens Wins $15.8m Ship Repair Contract

Detyens Shipyards, Inc. has been awarded a $15,812,647 firm-fixed-price contract from the U. S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command for a 75-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and drydocking of USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE 1).

 

Work will include bridge equipment annual service, main diesel generator overhaul, life raft annual certification, drydocking, propeller shaft inspection, underwater hull cleaning and painting, freeboard cleaning and painting, overhaul sea valves, blast and coat tanks and renew flight deck non-skid.

 

The contract also includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $16,157,314.

 

Work will be performed in North Charleston, South Carolina, and is expected to be completed by July 3, 2015.

 

The contract was competitively procured, with proposals solicited via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with two offers received.