USA: Vigor Marine Gets USD 34.8 Mln Mobile Landing Platform Contract

Equipment & technology

Vigor Marine Gets USD 34.8 Mln Mobile Landing Platform Contract

Vigor Marine L.L.C., Shipbuilding, Portland, Ore., is being awarded a $34,848,589 firm-fixed-price contract for the detail design, construction, installation and systems verification for the mobile landing platform core capabilities set enabling the transfer vehicles and equipment at-sea from a legacy large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ship and interface with surface connectors, to include landing craft air-cushion craft, to deliver the vehicles and equipment ashore.

This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $35,000,813. Work will be performed in Portland, Ore. (98.5 percent), and Oakland, Calif. (1.5 percent), and is expected to be completed by November 2014.

Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with one proposal solicited and three offers received. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington D.C., is the contracting activity.

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Naval Today Staff, November 19, 2012; Image: vigorindustrial