Huntington Ingalls awarded $9.6 million for Finn PSA

ngalls Shipbuilding's 29th Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) destroyer John Finn (DDG 113) sails the Gulf of Mexico during Alpha sea trials earlier this year

NOVEMBER 1, 216 — Huntington Ingalls Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi, is being awarded a $9,635,835 cost-plus-award-fee order against previously awarded basic ordering agreement N00024-16-G-2303 to provide program management, advanced planning, engineering, design, material procurement/kitting, liaison, scheduling, and participation in planning conferences and design reviews in support of the post shakedown availability (PSA) for USS John Finn (DDG 113).

This PSA support is to commence prior to the date the shipyard is required to provide final drawings and related data for construction of the individual ship to the Navy.

Work will be performed in Pascagoula, Mississippi (75 percent); and San Diego, California (25 percent), and is expected to be completed by March 2018.

Fiscal 2016 shipbuilding and conversion (Navy) funding in the amount of $5,776,000 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively procured in accordance with 10 U.S. Code 2304(c)(1) – only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements.

The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion, and Repair Gulf Coast, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is the contracting activity.

Ingalls Shipbuilding’s 29th Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) destroyer John Finn (DDG 113) sails the Gulf of Mexico during Alp