USNS Comfort was a New York City landmark in the course of the worst days of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: McAllister/ David Rider
Hard on the heels of successful a $10.7 million Military Sealift Command (MSC) contract for a fleet oiler availability, Alabama Shipyard LLC, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded a $19,685,492 firm-fixed-price contract for a 120-calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of the Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20).
The Comfort contract features a base interval and choices that, if exercised, would convey its cumulative worth to $19,927,348.
Work shall be carried out in Mobile, starting Sept. 15, 2023, and is anticipated to be accomplished by Jan. 12, 2024. Fiscal 2023 working capital funds (Navy) within the quantity of $19,685,492 are obligated and can expire on the finish of the present fiscal yr. The contract was a small enterprise set-aside with proposals solicited through the SAM.gov web site and 4 affords obtained.
The Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting exercise.
The Comfort and sister ship Mercy had been initially delivered by NASSCO as San Clemente class tankers in 1974 and 1978 and had been subsequently transformed by NASSCO and delivered as hospital ships in 1984 and 1985. Navy considering on what hospital ships ought to do has modified since then and, earlier this month, Philly Shipyard was awarded a contract by Gibbs & Cox to conduct the T-AH(X) Hospital Ship Feasibility Study. The six-month examine will cowl an answer for preliminary designs to interchange the 2 present hospital ships .
