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MARINE FINANCE

USACE Seeks Boat Builder

The Marine Design Center (MDC) of the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers (USACE) intends to initiate a negotiated procurement to acquire one fisheries research vessel to serve the U.S. Geological

Survey, Biological Resources Div. in support of its research mission on the Great Lakes.

The vessel to be acquired will be a self-propelled, steel or alu- minum constructed, monohull vessel.

The vessel will support gill net and trawling operations, and will house wet and dry lab spaces where scientific research activi- ties will take place.

Accommodations for scientists and vessel crew are also required.

It is anticipated that the length of the vessel will be approximately 80 ft (24.4 m).

The proposals will be evaluated on technical, management and cost factors, with emphasis in that order. A more detailed evaluation criteria will be included in the solicitation. Offerors are advised that their proposal must be with- in the Government's budget limi- tation — under $3 million — which will be identified in the solicitation. The RFP package was scheduled to be available last month.

Interested parties may contact:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

Philadelphia District,

Wanamaker Building, 100 Penn

Square East, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107-3391, Tel: (215) 656-6894;

ATTN: CENAP-CT (Ms. Cheryl

Watson); SOLICITATION NO.

DACW61-98-R-0007.

Del mar To Provide Suction

Anchor System For MODU

Delmar Systems entered a five- year agreement with Shell

Deepwater Development to pro- vide a Suction Anchoring System for rig mooring in water depths to 8,000 ft. (2,438 m). It will report- edly be the first such system used in conjunction with a Mobile

Drilling Unit, and the first com- plete system to be installed in the

Gulf of Mexico.

The mooring system allows for pre-deployment, enabling the rig to commence operations shortly after arriving at the drilling loca- tion. The system also includes

Delmar's proprietary Subsea

Connector (patent pending) which facilitates deployment and allows several connection options between the anchor pile and mooring wires.

The installation procedure requires only one conventional anchor handling vessel for deploy- ment.

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Consortium Tapped For

Submarine Contracts

The Chilean Navy has approved the purchase of two 1,600-ton

Scorpene submarines from a

Spanish-French consortium.

The Navy's admiralty has reportedly approved plans to pur- chase the submarines - estimated at $200 million each — from the

French DCN and the Spanish

Bazan shipbuilders.

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