Detyens Shipyards to Overhaul USNS Patuxent

March 11, 2013

Detyens Shipyards, Inc., of North Charleston, S.C., is being awarded a $7,974,850 firm, fixed-price contract for the regular overhaul and dry-docking of MSC fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201).

Work will include lifeboats and davit maintenance and testing; underway replenishment gear maintenance; ventilation fan motor overhauls; main engine overhauls; underwater hull cleaning, preparing and painting; and propeller system maintenance.

Patuxent’s primary mission is to provide fuel to deployed Navy ships at sea and their assigned aircraft. Work will be performed in North Charleston, S.C., and is expected to be completed by May 2013. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $9,261,404. Contract funds in the amount of $7,974,850 will be obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the total contract value to $9,261,404.

Military Sealift Command Norfolk, Va., is the contracting activity (N32205-13-C-1004).

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Press Release, March 11, 2013; Image: navy.mil