USA: GDBIW Secures Contract for LCS Class Design Services

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $12,478,261 cost-plus-fixed fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2302) for Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class design services.

LCS class design services provide necessary engineering, program, and technical support for LCS Class ships. This includes class baseline design services, class documentation services, class engineering studies, cost estimating support, LCS ship transition, interim support services, and liaison for ship construction and post delivery with the class design agent for LCS 6 and follow.

This modification includes an option, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this modification to $25,077,578. Work will be performed in Bath, Maine (54 percent), Pittsfield, Mass. (45 percent), and Mobile, Ala. (1 percent). Work is expected to be complete by June 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

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Source: GDBIW, June 6, 2012