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Coast Guard Releases Draft RFP For Next Go-Round Of OPC Procurement

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, October 9th, 2020

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Coast Guard Releases Draft RFP For Next Go-Round Of OPC Procurement

Notional OPC design is 360-feet long, a 54-foot beam, and 17-foot draft. House appropriators propose to fully fund the program in FY '22. (Graphic: Eastern Shipbuilding Group.)

The Coast Guard last Friday released the draft request for proposals (RFP) for a new competition for its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) with revised plans still on track to release the final RFP early in 2021. A schedule included as part of the Stage 2 draft RFP shows that a contract award for the detail design of the first OPC hull under the new procurement will be in January 2022. Eastern Shipbuilding Group originally won the Coast Guard contract to…

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