Bender Shipbuilding Secures Contract

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. Inc., Mobile, Ala., is being awarded an $8,075,500 firm-fixed-price contract for the dry docking selected restricted availability of USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG 29). Work will be performed in Mobile and is to be completed by November 2002. Contract funds in the amount of $7,962,443 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured and advertised in the Commerce Business Daily, with three proposals solicited and two offers received. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Pascagoula, Miss., is the contracting activity.