$12.5m Awarded for Drydock Repairs in Hawaii

GSI Pacific Inc.,* Honolulu, Hawaii, is awarded $12,481,550 for a firm-fixed-price task order (N6247818F4183) under a previously awarded multiple award construction contract (N62478-16-D-4015) to overhaul a dry dock caisson and provide dock repairs at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.  The work to be performed provides for 10-year ultrasonic testing of the entire caisson in accordance with Military Standard 1625D including, but not limited to, plating of the entire hull, top deck (weather deck), machinery deck, internal strength decks, bulkheads including breast hooks, ballast tank and machinery deck internal structural members such as stiffeners, truss frame members and sea chests/ballast piping seaward of the first closure valve.  Other repair scope items include sandblasting and preserving exterior surfaces of the caisson, including the weather deck; cleaning, priming and painting the exterior of the caisson; removing existing non-skid coating from the weather deck and replacing with industrial strength tape applied to non-skid surface material; replacing non-skid coating on the machinery deck and sandblasting, cleaning, priming and painting of the interior surfaces of the caisson utilizing high solids paint for the interior tanks.  Work will be performed in Oahu, Hawaii, and is expected to be completed by March 2020.  Fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance (Navy) contract funds in the amount of $12,481,550 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.  Two proposals were received for this task order.  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Hawaii, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.