HOS Dominator [Image: hornbeck Offshore Services]
Hornbeck Offshore Operators LLC, Covington, La., has actually been granted a $9,176,100 Military Sealift Command agreement for making use of its 2002-built 240-foot OSV HOS Dominator as an Undersea Rescue Command assistance vessel in the Eastern Pacific location of San Diego, though it might be utilized worldwide.
The agreement additionally has 4 unexercised choices that, if worked out, would certainly enhance its advancing worth to $44,245,122.
The vessel’s key objective will certainly be to assistance Navy submarine rescue using the Navy Submarine Rescue Chamber Flyaway System, Assessment Underwater Work System, as well as the Navy Submarine Rescue Diving as well as Recompression System, consisting of training. The vessel might additionally act as companion for submarine sea tests, in addition to a diving system using existing as well as establishing mobile diving systems, as well as various other goals as called for by the Navy as well as allowed by the vessel’s accreditations as well as categories.
Work is anticipated to be finished by November 2025. Fiscal 2021 functioning funding funds (Navy) in the quantity of $6,787,800 are bound on this honor as well as will certainly run out at the end of the present . The agreement was competitively obtained through the beta.SAM.gov site, with 4 propositions obtained.
