Contract Award: AUSTAL USA LLC (Mobile, Alabama) – $8,628,929

AUSTAL USA LLC, Mobile, Alabama, is awarded a $8,628,929 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order (N69316-24-F-4000) against a previously awarded basic ordering agreement (N00024-19-G-2318) to provide advance planning, material procurement, and accomplishment of work for emergent availabilities in support of the littoral combat ship USS Kingsville (LCS 36). This effort is to develop and provide planning, engineering support, planning and logistics technical documentation, funds and man-hour expenditure data, projected costs, cost estimates, material and labor for the accomplishment of post-delivery work items during emergent availabilities and to accomplish all testing required. Work will be performed in National City, California, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2025. Fiscal 2024 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $1,000,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1); only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is the contracting activity.