USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189) returns to Naval Station Norfolk after finishing a 3 and a half month deployment, April 28, 2023. [U.S. Navy photo by Ryan Carter]
Alabama Shipyard LLC, Mobile, Ala., has been awarded a $10,729,026 firm-fixed-price contract (N3220523C0189) for an 81-calendar day shipyard availability for the mid-term availability of the Military Sealift Command’s Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189). The contract features a base interval and 5 unexercised choices that. if exercised, would take its cumulative worth to $11,265,523.
Work will likely be carried out in Mobile starting September 11 and is anticipated to be accomplished by November 30, 2023. Working capital funds (Navy) within the quantity of $10,729,026.00 are obligated for fiscal 2023 and won’t expire on the finish of the fiscal yr.
The contract was a small enterprise set-aside solicited through the sam.gov web site with six provides acquired. Military Sealift Command, Norfolk, Va., is the contracting exercise (N3220523C0189).
Launched at Avondale Shipyards in 1986, the USNS John Lenthall was briefly within the information in November 2009 on the top of the Somali pirate assault wave when the armed safety element on board fired warning shots at two skiffs, which then swiftly departed.
