J-8_RFC.doc

This document contains a request for specification clarification regarding the USNS JOHN LENTHALL (T-AO 189) and the related federal contract opportunity solicitation. The request for specification clarification pertains to items including general services, hull steel replacement, tank painting, stability testing, degaussing conduit removal from tanks and inserting bulkheads, diesel engine repair, and structural steel gauging surveys.

The federal contract opportunity solicitation is for the upcoming Regular Overhaul/Dry-Docking of the USNS JOHN LENTHALL, with a period of performance from on or about February 21, 2020 for a period of 60 calendar days. The vessel is 677 feet, 6 inches in length with a beam of 97 feet and draft of 36 feet. The solicitation will be issued on or about October 3, 2019 as a 100% small business set-aside and posted to the Federal Business Opportunities website. The solicitation will require services such as flight deck non-skid and safety net inspection/testing, UN-Station steel replacement, and UN-REP systems repairs.