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Bollinger, Eastern, GD Win Coast Guard Contracts For OPC Preliminary Design

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

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Bollinger, Eastern, GD Win Coast Guard Contracts For OPC Preliminary Design

Artist rendering of Offshore Patrol Cutter. Source: Coast Guard

Marking another key step toward recapitalizing its aging fleet, the Coast Guard late Tuesday afternoon awarded preliminary design contracts to three companies, Bollinger Shipyards, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, and General Dynamics [GD], worth a combined $65 million for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC). The awards to Bollinger and Eastern were nearly $22 million each and GD’s Bath Iron Works shipbuilding unit received $21.4 million for the 18-month preliminary and contract design (P&CD) phase, which is the first of a two phase…

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