Seaward wins Navy contract worth potential $51 million

Seaward Marine Services, Inc., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $12,648,498 fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for waterborne hull cleaning and associated work to support the director of ocean engineering, supervisor of salvage and diving. The primary purpose of this contract is to provide hull cleaning, hull inspection, and other related ship husbandry services on the underwater portion of Navy, Coast Guard, Army, and Military Sealift Command ships and craft. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $51,175,930. Work will be performed in Norfolk, Va. (54 percent); Mayport, Fla. (24 percent); Ingleside, Texas (17 percent); and New London, Conn. (5 percent). Work is expected to be completed by August 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $50,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-10-D-4170).