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Major Navy Contracts (continued) and private sector shipyards for the Select- ed Restricted Availability (SRA) of USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705). Portsmouth

Naval Shipyard is being assigned the select- ed restricted availability on a firm-fixed- price basis. The target price for this effort is $6,382,087. Work will be performed in

Portsmouth, and is expected to be com- pleted September 30, 1987. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the requiring activity.

August 28

Swiftships Incorporated, Morgan City, is being awarded a $10,879,255 fixed-price contract for 30 patrol boats. Work will be performed in Morgan City, and is expected to be completed in December 1987. This contract is in support of a Foreign Military

Sale to Cameroon. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the con- tracting activity (N00024-86-C-2209).

August 29

Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Va., is the successful offeror in a competitive test program between public and private sector shipyards for the Selected Restricted Avail- ability (SRA) of USS Lapon (SSN-661). Nor- folk Naval Shipyard is being assigned the selected restricted availability on a firm- fixed-price basis. The target price for this effort is $2,676,557. Work will be performed in Norfolk, and is expected to be completed

August 15, 1987. Five offers were solicited and three were received. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington, D.C-. is the requiring activity.

Dresser Industries, Worthington Pump

Division, Harrison, N.J., is being issued a $3,115,905 delivery order for 18 trim and drain pumps for SSN and SSBN submarines.

Work will be performed in Harrison, and is expected to be completed July 1, 1989. The

Navy Ships Parts Control Center, Mechan- icsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity (N00104-85-G-0399).

Hewlett Packard Company, Valley Forge,

Pa., is being issued a $4,355,588 contract for 366 Model 863-B signal generators for the support of the General Purpose Elec- tronic Test Equipment (GPETE) program.

Work will be performed in Palo Alto, Calif., and is expected to be completed in Novem- ber 1987. The Navy Ships Parts Control

Center, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the con- tracting activity (N00104-86-C-4668).

September 4

Ingalls Shipbuilding Division, Litton Sys- tems, Incorporated, Pascagoula, Miss., is being issued a $9,900,000 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract for long lead equipment and mate- rial for the CG-47 Class Marine Gas Turbine

Training Facility Great Lakes, III. Work will be performed in Pascagoula, and expected to be completed in August 1989. The Naval

Sea Systems Command Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity (N00024-85-C- 2016).

September 5

Rockwell International Corporation, Ana- heim, Calif., is being awarded a $11,500,000 fixed-price-incentive-letter contract for 12 Electrically Suspended Gyro

Navigators (ESGN). Work will be performed in Anaheim (90 percent), and El Paso, Texas (10 percent), and is expected to be com- pleted November 30, 1988. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-86-C- 4095).

September 9

Colonnas' Shipyards Incorporated, Nor- folk, Va., is being awarded a $11,961,478 fixed-price contract with economic price adjustment for the Major Maintenance

Availabilities (MMA's) of U.S. Coast Guard ships Durable and Courageous with options for the MMA's of nine other cutters. Work 40 will be performed in Norfolk, and is ex- pected to be completed December 17, 1987. Forty-five bids were solicited and eleven were received. The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-H-8134).

September 11

Scott Aviation, a Figgie International

Company, Lancaster, N.Y., is being issued a $3,184,120 contract to furnish 21,317 emergency escape breathing devices. Work will be performed in Monroe, N.C., and is expected to be completed in 1987. Ten bids were solicited and 2 offers were received.

The Navy Ships Parts Control Center, Me- chanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity (N00104-86-C-0032).

Litton Systems Incorporated, Ingalls

Shipbuilding Division, Pascagoula, Miss., is being awarded a $402,494,000 fixed-price- incentive contract for construction of 1

LHD-1 class multipurpose amphibious as- sault ship. The contract also contains priced options for an FY-88 ship and FY-89 ship.

Work will be performed in Pascagoula, and is expected to be completed in April 1992.

Five bids were solicited and four offers were received. The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-86-C-2005).

Ocean Bulk Ships Incorporated, New

York, N.Y., is being awarded a $3,500,000 fixed-price contract for the time charter of the merchant vessel M/V Overseas Har- riette, a U.S. flag dry bulk carrier. The ship will be used to transport DoD coal from the

U.S. East Coast to Northern Europe. Forty bids were solicited and four offers were received. The Military Sealift Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-86-C-1 111).

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