21R4114 Attachment E - PWS.docx

USMC SLV CHARTER PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT 28 JANUARY 2021

LONG TERM CHARTER VESSEL

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

FOR

(Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory) Littoral Connector: Stern Landing Vessel Experimentation Assessment and Evaluation Charter

28 January 2021

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

`1.0 OBJECTIVE

The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL) desires to acquire a commercial off the shelf (COTS) vessel to provide needed littoral maneuver and sustainment capabilities. This Jones Act Compliant, stern landing beachable, maritime vessel with its required, ancillary equipment, will be utilized to transport personnel and equipment, in littoral and open ocean environments. This vessel will be used during basic and advanced phases of technology risk reduction/development events and operational objective assessments by MCWL to inform a future Naval Program of Record (PoR). While developing tactics, techniques, and procedures and refining overarching concepts of operations.

2.0 SCOPE OF WORK

The contractor shall provide a dedicated Stern Landing Vessel (SLV) and crew to support MCWL littoral, and open ocean roll-on / roll-off logistics experiments. The vessel shall be designed, constructed and certified to carry personnel, small boats, vehicles, and ancillary equipment for discharge ashore. The contractor shall be prepared to transport fuel and containerized small arms, crew served weapons, and ammunition in accordance with (IAW) United States Coast Guard (USCG) regulations 46 Subchapter I. The contractor will also support loading, stowage, and discharge of government materials, equipment, vehicles, and arranging for any pier side / port equipment necessary when required for the on load and discharge operations. The contractor will additionally be prepared transport personnel in line with experimentation objectives provided by MCWL.

3.0 VESSEL CHARACTERISTICS

The contractor shall provide a vessel that will be manned and operated by a contracted company and include the following capabilities:

Stern Landing Vessel

In addition, the ship shall be able to conduct launch and recovery of small boats, and conduct crane operations up to sea state 3.

The vessel shall provide three (3) galley-prepared cafeteria-style meals for up to 38 embarked personnel (not including vessel crew), when underway . These meals shall be included in the fixed-price charter hire rate.

Provide detail drawings to illustrate compartments assigned to Sponsor and related facilities.

1) 20,000-gallon minimum capacity - JP8

2) 20,000-gallons minimum capacity - JP5

3) 5,000-gallon minimum capacity - diesel.

Nozzles, hoses and associated equipment to facilitate refueling operations shall be provided. The pump shall include an emergency shut-off switch that is fully accessible to personnel conducting refueling operations.

Refueling operations will include sponsor mission equipment (SME), and fuel transfer to external fuel tanks in the cargo area or to equipment/fuel-containers ashore.

SME is defined as the sponsor’s government vehicles, generators and other sponsor mission equipment as required including craft moored alongside:

a. Small Length >7m and up to 12m

b. Medium Length >12m and up to 50m Provide tank arrangement drawings.

Vehicles and equipment that will traverse the ramp includes typical wheeled and tracked USMC inventory items. This includes “Sponsor Furnished Equipment” outlined in section 5.0 and 5.1 vehicles/ equipment. Stern Ramp shall be a miniumum 40 ft. wide x 30 ft. long to facilitate athwartships loading of ISO containers. The ramp must have finger flaps on the end to accommodate current and future requirements.

Ramp and ships crew must be capable of supporting launch and recovery of the following in-port, while beached and at-sea:

· Small hand portable boats for vessel to shore transfers of personnel, stores and equipment, along with other mission requirements as deemed necessary by the sponsor

· Small/Medium Unmmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) (Groups 1-3) as defined in Sponsor Mission Equipment, Sec. 5.1.

Contractor will secure necessary regulatory body endorsements.

The vessel shall be equipped with towing winches with low speed in-haul/out-haul speed adequate to support above working load. Contractor must provide an assortment of towing hardware (i.e. towline, tow bridle, shackles, etc.)

4.0 OTHER REQUIREMENTS

4.1 Charter Period. One (1) twelve-month firm period with three (3) twelve-month option periods.

4.2 Operational tempo. 330 days per year.

4.3 Area of Operation. The desired area of operations (AOR) ranges from the west coast of the United States and to the western Pacific.

5.0 SPONSOR MISSION EQUIPMENT (SME)

All vehicles and equipment shall be on-loaded and off-loaded from a pier or beach and griped to support open ocean transit in sea states equaling vessel’s sea state capability. The following vehicles and equipment apply listed with a maximum square footage load plan of 31,500 and maximum deck capacity of 59 short tons and minimum of 4.6 short tons:

5.1 Sponsor Mission Equipment Vehicle/Equipment Loads.

1) Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV):

a) JLTV/MADIS/ Rogue: 17ft x 8ft x 7.6ft, 11 Short Tons

b) JLTV Utility: 18ft x 8ft x 7.6ft, 11 Short tons

c) JLTV trailer: 14.8ft x 8 x 7.6ft, 4.6 Short Tons

2) Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR):

a) MTVR: 25ft x 8.1ft x 11.8ft, 31 Short Tons

b) MTVR Extra Long Wheel Base: 32.23ft x 8.1ft x 11.8ft, 31 Short Tons

c) MTVR Trailer: 16.6ft x 8.1ft x 10.4ft, 11 Short Tons

3) Logistic Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR):

a) LVSR: 35.6ft x 8.1ft x 8.9ft, 43 Short Tons

4) Trailer Refueler: 30.6ft x 8ft x 10.4ft, 28 Short Tons

5) Extendable Boom Forklifts (EBFL): 27.5ft x 8.5ft x 8.4ft, 15.8 Short Tons

6) Tractor, Rubber-tired, Articulated-steering, Multi-purpose (TRAM): 18.5ft x 6.5ft x 6.5ft, 5.5 Short Tons

7) “Kalmar” Rough Terrain Container Handler (RTCH): 37.7ft x 12ft x 13.1ft, 59 Short Tons

8) Small Boat Trailer: 41ft x 12ft x 12ft, 10 Short Tons

9) Small hand portable boats; 17ft x 7.5ft x 3.5, 350 pounds empty ( loaded 2,000 pounds)

10) Small/Medium Unmmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) (Groups 1-3): 14 feet x 11 feet x 4 feet, 593 pounds empty (loaded 1,000 pounds)

11) QUADCON Container: 8 feet x 4.78125 feet x 6.83 feet (1,764 lbs. empty and max gross weight 11,200 lbs.)

12) 20 foot Container: 20 feet x 8 feet x 8.5 feet (5,070.6 lbs. empty and max weight 40,000 lbs.)

13) 40 foot Container: 40 feet x 8 feet x 8.5 feet (3,750 lbs. empty and max weight 55,000 lbs.)

6.0 CONTRACTOR FURNISHED EQUIPMENT (CFE)

The contractor shall be responsible for providing the following equipment:

1) Two (2) FDA approved Automated External Defibrillator (AED) units stored in a location that is accessible to trained responders. One shall be located in the vicinity of the rear deck, and the other must be located in the vicinity of berthing spaces.

2) Sufficient certified and load-tested lashing gear for vehicle and equipment tie down as required for sponsored furnished equipment noted in 6.1.

3) Deck lighting to support night time launch and recovery of small boats

4) Deck lighting to support night time launch and recovery of unmanned surface vehicles

5) Deck lighting to support night time launch and recovery of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)’s

6) Deck lighting to support Sponsor equipment maintenance during transit.

6.1 Modifications. The government may, at its option, modify vessel to meet new or changing mission requirements. The government will either task the contractor to perform or to subcontract for the modifications as a reimbursable item, or undertake the modifications itself. Any and all equipment put aboard as a result of the modifications will be Sponsor Mission Equipment (SME). All SME will be removed prior to the vessel’s re-delivery at the expense of the government, unless otherwise agreed to. The costs of government directed modifications and the costs to restore the vessel to its original class or certification at award and as required by this contract shall be borne by the government.

6.2 Electrical Power. The vessel must be able to provide sufficient electrical power on the Port and Starboard sides of the SME deck space identified in this document to support SME listed in section 5.1, items 11, 12 and 13. At a minimum, four (4) 220 VAC 3-phase, 60-amp, 60 Hz outlets with Pin and Sleeve connections and four (4) 110 VAC, 20-amp outlets shall be provided. All SME and Sponsor support and habitability areas require 60 Hz. Communication secure room as outlined in paragraph 7.6 will be able to support up to 10KW of conditioned continuous power for SME.

6.3 Port Services. The contractor shall have responsibility to employ an agent for arrangement of port services on a reimbursable basis during this charter. Port services shall include tugs, pilots, berthing, potable water, shore power, trash and garbage removal, and oily waste removal including small boat bilge waste, sewage removal, hazardous material removal, line handlers, dedicated telephone and internet service and liberty launch services, as required.

6.4 Communications. The vessel shall be equipped with marine Very High Frequency (VHF) and a ship’s cell phone. The contractor shall provide a secure, temperature controlled radio equipment room and accommodate the integration of sponsor communications equipment. The Contractor shall also provide a Sponsor antenna mast area, for installation of high Frequency (HF)/VHF/Ultra High Frequency (UHF)/Satellite Communication (SATCOM) antenna(s). This mast area will be sized to reduce interference from different SME antenna mast waveforms (co-located). The contractor shall ensure the Sponsor radio equipment room is climate-controlled with a maximum temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit (F), and adequately powered to meet equipment requirements defined in Sec. 6.2. Locking devices will be defined by the Sponsor after award. The contractor shall allow embarked personnel commercial internet connectivity while underway. The contractor shall be prepared to secure all radio transmissions and enact Emissions Control (EC) procedures as required by Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Operations (OP) 4 Ammunition and Explosives Safety Afloat and NAVSEA OP 3565 Electromagentic Radioation Hazards (Hazards to Ordance) at any time embarked personnel are conducting demolition buildup procedures. The Sponsor will assist with coordination of these events.

6.5 Navigation Equipment. The vessel shall be equipped with gyrocompass with repeaters, Global Positioning System (GPS), Automatic Identification System (AIS), and radar. The radar shall be capable of surface search to a minimum of 25NM.

6.6 Air Conditioning. The contractor shall ensure that the communications equipment room, messing and berthing areas and recreational spaces are climate-controlled with a maximum temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit (F).

7.0 PLACES OF PERFORMANCE

Contractor shall facilitate performance of duties in the Pacific Ocean to support experimental objectives as described in 4.3.

8.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

Period of performance includes 4 years post vessel delivery (3QFY22) to final mobilization/de-mobilization point.

9.0 IT SYSTEMS

Vessel shall be equipped with a network capable of providing 24 / 7 internet access for crew and embarked personnel.