Alabama Shipyard to Overhaul USNS Supply
Alabama Shipyard has been awarded a $23,752,381, firm-fixed-price contract for a 96-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry docking of the USNS Supply (T-AOE 6).
Work will be performed in Mobile, Ala., and is expected to be complete by November 2020. This contract includes one base period and 10 options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $26,361,776.
The contract was competitively procured with proposals solicited via the Government Point of Entry website, and Alabama Shipyard was the soe bidder. The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) is the contracting activity.
The NASSCO-built USNS Supply, ex-USS Supply (AOE-6), is the lead ship of the Supply-class fast combat support ships. The vessel was commissioned in 1994 and decommissioned in 2001, after which her weapons were removed and she was transferred for service with the MSC.