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STATEMENT OF WORK

FOR

RHIB OPERATIONAL LIMITS AT SEA

JOINT INDUSTRY PROJECT STUDIES

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The purpose of this Procurement Request is to provide payment for U.S. Coast Guard participation in the RHIB Operational Limits at Sea Joint Industry Project for a duration of 1 year. This JIP consists of five participants including foreign navies, (Australian, British, and Dutch) MARIN, and the USCG. Participants decide which topics are to be investigated and carry out the work based on a total budget of 200,000 Euros. This budget is derived from the fee payment provided by each participant.

1.2 The objective of the RHIB Operational Limits at Sea Joint Industry Project is to obtain a detailed picture of the operational limits of RHIB designs and determine the influence of various design parameters on the operational limits. Emphasis will be place on crew performance, to include comfort, fatigue, and injury to accelerations. RHIB dynamic behaviors, such as capsize, broaching, and swamping will be investigated. The product of this project will be used to determine a proper operational envelop for each boat design, including the methodology used to define it. This will be useful from both an operational and acquisition perspective

2. REFERENCE MATERIAL

2.1 The Tasks of this project require information specific ship hydrodynamic codes to include FREDYN, SHIPMO, PANSHIP, and related utilities that are already held by JIP participants. No information is required for the Coast Guard.

3. SCOPE OF WORK – The work is to be accomplished through the following tasks.

3.1 Task 1 – RHIB OPERATIONAL LIMITS AT SEA JOINT INDUSTRY PROJECT PARTICIPATION. The objective of this task is to provide the payment for US Coast Guard participation in this Joint Industry Government Project. Work to be performed under this task includes:

· Survey and assess existing seakeeping criteria

· Survey and assess operational experience

· Design small, medium, and large RHIB

· Conduct sensitivity study using 3 RHIBs listed above

· Identify sensitive design parameters

· Develop operator guidance and assessment methodology

A summary report will be delivered at the end of the project documenting progress, along with the design tools mentioned above.

4. DELIVERABLES AND SCHEDULE

4.1 DELIVERABLES – The Contractor shall include in the letter report deliverables to SFLC-ESD-NAME-NAVARCH all photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs, tables, calculations, text, analyses, algorithms, conclusions and recommendations developed as a part of this project. After receiving NAME-NAVARCH’s comments, the Contractor shall produce the updated deliverable within four weeks. Each deliverable, both draft and final, shall be transmitted to the SFLC-ESD-NAME-NAVARCH with a documenting cover letter and a copy of the cover letter shall be provided directly to the Contracting Officer.

4.2 Modifications to contractor submittals required by the government reviewers, if judged by the contractor to be outside the scope of this Statement of Work shall be discussed at a meeting of the government technical and contracting personnel with contractor representatives.

4.3 SCHEDULE – The following schedule of events shall be followed by both the U.S. Coast Guard and the Contractor in carrying out the provisions of this Statement of Work. When either party becomes aware of their inability to conform to this schedule, they shall so advise the other party, in writing, propose an alternate schedule, and provide justification.

5. QUALITY ASSURANCE

5.1 The government reserves the right to witness the validation procedures and validation processes of any part of the project development at whatever site such action is taking place.

5.2 The government will review the contents and format of the deliverables in their entirety prior to issuing approval.

6. SECURITY CLEARANCE

6.1 This work is not classified. No security clearance is required.

7. USE OF GOVERNMENT FURNISHED MATERIAL

7.1 Government furnished material shall be used for the delivery order only and shall not be used or disseminated for any other purpose.

8. NOTES

8.1 DELIVERY DESTINATION – All items to be delivered under this work statement shall be delivered to the SFLC-ESD-NAME-NAVARCH technical point of contact, Mr. William L. Thomas, with a documenting cover letter at the following address:

8.2 RIGHTS IN DATA – All data regardless of form or medium are considered to be solely the property of the USCG and shall not be released without the written consent of the USCG.

8.3 PROPRIETARY MATERIAL – This work involves the use of proprietary analysis tools. Reports, presentations and deliverables generated as a part of this project are not to reveal technical details of the FREDYN, SHIPMO, PANSHIP, programs, their algorithms or theory that are considered proprietary to the RHIB OPERATIONAL LIMITS AT SEA Joint Industry Project. Algorithms or analyses developed in support of this project are not to be considered proprietary to CRS. The U.S. Coast Guard may freely distribute the project deliverables and developed methodology without restriction.

8.4 The COR for this document will be: