Contract: International Marine, $13.8M

International Marine & Industrial Applicators LLC, Spanish Fort, Ala., is awarded a $13,762,373 firm-fixed-price contract for preservation work onboard USS Toledo (SSN-769). The services under this contract include blasting, preservation, and surface preparation; touch-up, blasting, and painting of high solid coatings and non-high solid coatings; cleaning of sanitary and other tanks; construction of scaffolding required to accomplish taskings; general shipboard cleaning; containment/blast protection; preparation and preservation of dampening tiles; zinc replacement; lead ballast removal and installation; and special hull treatment removal, preparation, preservation, and installation. This contract includes options, which if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $16,997,778. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Va., and is expected to be completed by May 2022. If all options are exercised work will continue through September 2022. Fiscal 2021 operation and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $8,000,000 will be obligated at the time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the beta.sam.gov website, with three offers received. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, is the contracting activity (N4215821CS001). (Source: DoD, 06/11/21)