Ship_Models_SOW.pdf

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Statement of Work for

Museum-Quality Model Ships for Educational Displays

I. Background

The United States Merchant Marine Academy is located at Kings Point, New York, along the southern shore of Long Island Sound. Several of the academy’s buildings are converted private residences from the turn of the century. A 2005 cultural resources survey report concluded that the buildings that encircle the central quadrangle comprise a historic district that meets National

Register Criterion A (historical association) and Criterion C (architectural values). This study further concluded that the American Merchant Marine Museum (former William S. Barstow house) is individually listed in the National Register under Criterion C for its place among the early twentieth-century high-style estates of the region.

II. Purpose/Statement of Need

The American Merchant Marine Museum (AMMM) is seeking the services of a professional model shipwright who is familiar with federal curatorial standards and best practices in building museum-quality ship models, as well as knowledge of maritime history, to design/build/construct ten (10) museum quality/standard, waterline model ships at a scale of 1/196 with solid basswood hulls. Ships are for educational display at the American Merchant Marine Museum and campus buildings at the USMMA for display to standards listed in the description of duties below.

III. Place of Performance

DOT/Maritime Administration

USMMA/American Merchant Marine Museum

300 Steamboat Road

Kings Point, NY 11024

IV. Period of Performance

The 10 ship models must be on site no later than (NLT) 500 days after notice to proceed (NTP) is issued.

V. Deliverables

The contractor will be required to accomplish the following:

The ten (10) models will be uniform in scale at 1/192 scale or 1” = 16 feet

Design, fabricate, and build all the pieces and parts for a fully accurate representation of each model in museum grade/quality materials.

The model shall be built to represent a waterline ship model

The model hull shall be built of solid bass wood construction

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Affix a wooden base to the model stained with a cherry finish on the edges, with the flat surface either similarly stained or painted deep blue.

Ensure that the completed case/base/stand has two small vents that allow the case's air to cycle through once every twenty-four hours.

The model shall be built to the quality of a Boucher ship model and U.S. Navy ship model standards as found at the this website http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/carderock/pub/cnsm/tech/spec_01.aspx, with the following exceptions:

o Scale shall be 1/192 scale or 1” = 16 feet.

o Model shall be a waterline model o Hull shall be a single piece of bass wood o No styrene will be used in the vessel's construction o No hull inspection required

The model shall be built with parts and materials sourced from the United States, and all labor for this model must be done by American citizen(s) or aliens legally authorized to work within the United States.

The model shall be painted with high quality acrylic model paints to the correct color scheme.

The model shall fly the following flags in appropriate scale: American Flag from era, house flag; call sign pennants.

The models shall display the name of each ship in white lettering of appropriate scale on the ship's bows and/or stern as historically accurate.

The model shall be delivered to the United States Merchant Marine Museum and installed by the contractor.

Provide a small plaque displaying the ship’s name, its tonnage, date of sinking, and name of the model builder and the year the model was built.

Provide detailed digital images of the model for approval prior to delivery to the

American Merchant Marine Museum.

VI. Contractor Responsibility

Contractor must be a fully competent marine model repair specialist, have a vast knowledge of marine/maritime vessels and interworking’s, preferably over several centuries of shipping, and shall have the specialized equipment for every detail needing repair, be proficient in matching paint color, and possess a strong knowledge of electrical systems, wiring, motors, and all other means of powering models.

Have suitable, efficient and safe and secure working space to perform the required tasks of this contract.

Possess specialized knowledge of maritime history as it relates to coastal steamers and marine engines and sensitive to museum display needs.

Possess strict attention to detail, and a portfolio of completed work with contactable references and provide photographic evidence of building models of American-flagged twentieth-century cargo vessels for display in maritime museums.

http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/carderock/pub/cnsm/tech/spec_01.aspx

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Responsible for all transportation, oversight, security, materials, tools, equipment, labor and full insurance to complete described task(s).

Ship Models to be built are as follows:

SS Ideal X, in its 1956 configuration when it conveyed the first containerized cargo.

SS Exxon Valdez, as it appeared in 1989 at the time of its grounding.

USNS Comet, as it appeared in its last activation in 2003.

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USNS Bob Hope as it appeared in 1998.

SS Maersk Alabama, as it appeared in 2009.

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SS Seatrain Texas as it appeared during 1967 during the Vietnam War.

Ore Carrier J. Pierpont Morgan as it appeared in 1906.

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SS Manhattan (tanker) as it appeared in its first voyage through the Northwest Passage in

1969.

USNS Mercy, as it appeared in the First Gulf War in 1990.

SS Erna Elizabeth