The Military Sealift Command awarded a $299,500 firm fixed price purchase order to Curtin Maritime Corp. to provide tugboat towing services in support of the Command's prepositioning fleet operations. Under solicitation N32205-21-R-4160, Curtin Maritime will tow a 110-foot by 32-foot yard craft weighing 115 long tons from Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, delivering the barge by May 23, 2021. The award was made under the total small business set-aside of solicitation N32205-21-R-4160, which required a Jones Act compliant tugboat for an open-ocean barge tow mission in support of the Military Sealift Command's fleet prepositioning activities between shipyards and areas of operation in the Pacific region.