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CONRAD delivers pushboat for Harley’s New York operation HARLEY MARINE NY, a subsidiary of Harley Marine Services, Seattle, WA, recently took delivery of the pushboat HMS Justice, from Conrad Shipyard, Morgan City, LA. HMS Justice is the fifth vessel in this class and joins the New York Harbor fleet of two tugboats and four double-hull petroleum barges. Harley Marine has partnered with Conrad Shipyard to build a series of vessels. “The HMS Justice is a quality built vessel, a testament to the craftsmanship and skill of the shipyard. We look forward to a long relationship with Conrad with more vessels to come in the near future,” says Jonathan Mendes, interim General Manager of Harley Marine NY. Four of the vessels in this class, the Alamo, Fury, Silver and Stardust, are employed in Harley’s U.S. Gulf fleet. The vessels are each 75 feet in length, have a 29 foot 9 inch beam and a depth of 9 feet and 11 inches. The vessel is equipped with Cummins engines producing 2,000 horsepower, Cummins auxiliaries and Nabrico Hydro Electric winches. Her design is well suited for the demands of harbor service with its “flanking rudder” technology. Mendes says, “The HMS Justice is a welcome addition to our growing New York operation.”
into how agencies, in this case the Coast Guard, evaluate RFP responses. Interestingly, the GAO decision includes a Coast Guard table that indicates that all five shipyards that responded to the RFP got “Superior” ratings for the soundness and mission effectiveness of the concept designs offered and also for their design approach. All were rated “Satisfactory” for organizational management and production capability. On past performance,
though, differences emerged. Bollinger and Bath Iron Works were rated “Satisfactory,” Eastern was rated “Superior,” but both Huntington Ingalls and VT Halter got ratings of “Marginal.” There were also differences in price: Bollinger Shipyards . . . . . . . $21,950,000 Eastern Shipbuilding . . . . . . $21,975,000 Bath Iron Works . . . . . . . . $21,400,000 Huntington Ingalls . . . . . . . $22,000,000 VT Halter Marine. . . . . . . . $22,000,000
GAO UPHOLDS Coast Guard decision on OPC contracts EARLY LAST MONTH, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a bid protest decision that upheld the U.S. Coast Guard’s award of three firm fixed-price contracts for preliminary and contract design (P&CD) for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) acquisition project. Contracts were awarded to Bollinger Shipyards Lockport LLC, Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc., and General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works. Shipbuilders Huntington Ingalls Industries and VT Halter Marine both filed protests of the awards and all P&CD contract work was stopped, as required by GAO’s automatic stay, during GAO’s review of the protests. The GAO has now published the decision and you can find out what exactly Huntington Ingalls and VT Halter were protesting about and why GAO denied their protests. The decision gives some useful insights
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