Tug Services BPA SOW 02.04.25.pdf

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Statement of Work (SOW) US Department of Transportation

Maritime Administration (MARAD) Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF)

Tug Services February 4, 2025

1.0 General

The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF) is an anchorage of the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) located in Suisun Bay, California, a tidal estuary northeast of San Francisco Bay. Of the original eight fleet sites, it is one of three that is still in operation and the only site serving the U.S. West Coast.

SBRF currently hosts retention, non-retention, and reimbursable custody vessels. Retention vessels are maintained for logistics support, training use, or long-term activation. Non-retention vessels are those that the MARAD has deemed to no longer be militarily useful. Reimbursable custody vessels are non- NDRF government vessels (such as those owned by the U.S. Army, Navy, Coast Guard, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) that are stored at each fleet site in exchange for a maintenance fee.

2.0 Objective

The objective of this BPA is to provide towing services to the SBRF to accomplish:

• intra-fleet ship moves within the anchorage,

• mooring maintenance by adjusting or deploying anchors and chains to/from ships,

• the movement of SBRF barges within the anchorage.

The Contractor shall furnish labor, supervision, equipment, fuel, and transportation to provide tug services to support various Government requirements per Call Order. The terms “service” or “services” below may refer to any or all support functions, unless a certain service is specifically mentioned. The services are primarily intended to support heavy weather preparation, contingency, and recovery operations, but may also be required for routine harbor support services. Contractors may partner or subcontract with other entities to provide the full range of services, such as other tug companies.

Due to the nature of the work and the Government’s intent to reduce excessive transit time costs to and from the SBRF site, the Contractor must have a local office and access to tugs within a 65-mile radius of SBRF.

3.0 Specific Tasks

The Contractor shall provide tug services to SBRF in General Anchorage #26 for the evolutions described below.

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3.1. Intra-Fleet Ship Move

Periodically SBRF will require a ship to be moved from one row/nest to another, or from one berth on a row/nest to another berth on the same row/nest. Any ship move within the anchorage will be orchestrated by a licensed Pilot, who will determine the type of tugs and horsepower/bollard pull required for the move.

For ship moves, SBRF will arrange for a meeting during the solicitation phase with the BPA holder, the Pilot, and key SBRF personnel to plan the move. It is most beneficial and desirable to conduct this meeting on-site.

3.2 Mooring Maintenance

Periodically SBRF will need to deploy anchors and chain to establish mooring points for ships in the anchorage, retrieve and reposition ship anchors and chain, or recover lost anchors and chain, as needed. In this case, a Pilot will not be needed. Only one tug will be required to make up to and position SBRF’s Anchor Handling Barge (Barge). The tug shall be able to maneuver as follows: back down, work offshore, work inshore, and make way ahead as directed to deploy anchor chain from the Barge’s deck or straighten out a chain already in the bay, then hold the Barge steady for the anchor drop. SBRF crew will manage operations aboard the Barge. The evolution will be under the direction of the SBRF Fleet Superintendent, Deputy Fleet Superintendent, or Deck Operations Supervisor.

3.2.1 Run Out Ship Anchors After Arrival

It has been recent practice to deploy a ship’s bower anchors during a ship’s arrival in SBRF. In times when this cannot be done, tug services would be required to maneuver SBRF’s Barge to a ship’s bow and hold steady while SBRF lowers an anchor to the deck of a barge and secures it ready for deployment. The tug would then maneuver the Barge as described for Mooring Maintenance above.

Periodically stern anchors will be set. The operation will be similar to running out bower anchors, except that the anchor and chain will be staged on the Barge and connected to the ship’s stern bollards or pre-installed chain pigtail. The tug will then hold the Barge steady at the stern of the ship, then back down and position the Barge for the anchor drop. The evolution will be under the direction of the SBRF Fleet Superintendent, Deputy Fleet Superintendent, or Deck Operations Supervisor.

3.2.2 Pre-Setting High-Performance Anchors

Some moors will require the pre-setting of high-performance anchors, such as the Delta Flipper type, running out anchor chain, and attaching a marker buoy to the bitter end of the chain. Ships would then be moored to this pre-deployed rig at a later date.

As single tug would be required to maneuver the Barge to the desired location within the anchorage, hold steady while SBRF’s Crane Barge comes alongside the Barge and lifts the anchor by its tether from

SBRF Tug Services BPA SOW 2025 Page 3 the Barge deck and sets it on the bay bottom. The tug will next back and maneuver the Barge to deploy the anchor chain off the Barge’s deck to a predetermined position. Once SBRF’s Barge crew secures the anchor chain to the Barge, the tug will back down on the anchor rig to set the anchor.

Once the anchor is set, the tug will continue to back/maneuver until all the chain is deployed off the Barge deck. The tug will then come ahead until the strain is off the Barge and the chain is vertical from the deck to the water and hold steady. SBRF will attach a buoy to the bitter end of the chain and place the buoy into the bay, to be recovered at a later date. The evolution will be under the direction of the SBRF Fleet Superintendent, Deputy Fleet Superintendent, or Deck Operations Supervisor.

3.3 Barge Movement

Periodically a push-boat type tug may be required to move SBRF barges around within the anchorage.

4.0 Equipment Requirements

For 3.1 and 3.2 above, any tugs offered for these services will be of at least 3,000 horsepower, twin screw conventional, ASD tractor or Z-drive tractor.

For 3.3, tugs offered for this service will be a push-boat type, twin screw, of at least 1000 horsepower.

5.0 Place of Performance

General Anchorage #26, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. The physical address is 2595 Lake Herman Road, Benicia, CA 94510

6.0 Hours of operation and federal holidays

The hours of operation at the SBRF are 0700 – 1730 Monday through Friday, with the exception of Federal holidays. The U.S. Federal holidays are as follows:

1. New Year’s Day

2. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

3. President’s Day

4. Memorial Day

5. Juneteenth

6. Independence Day

7. Labor Day

8. Columbus Day

9. Veterans Day

10. Thanksgiving Day

11. Christmas Day

All work is to be conducted during daylight hours.

7.0 Government Furnished Items

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SBRF will:

• Provide Piloting services for intra-fleet ship moves.

• Provide a riding crew or line handlers aboard ships and/or the anchor handline barge to secure tugs’ mooring lines, retrieve and deploy ship mooring lines, and operate anchor windlasses or capstans.

• Provide crane service to handle anchors and chain aboard the Barge.

• Have pre-placed fenders as needed.

• Ensure that shaft and rudder locks are secure as applicable.

• Remove brows between ships if required.

• Stow accommodation ladder, if required.

• Disconnect shore power to ship as appropriate.

• Utilize their generator vessel (56’ utility boat) to provide power for anchor windlasses during ship moves as needed.

The contractor will:

• Provide appropriately sized number and type of tugs as required by the SOW and per Pilot’s recommendations to move a ship.

• Provide appropriately sized tug to act as motive power to maneuver SBRF’s anchor handling barge.

• Provide appropriately sized push boat to act as motive power to move other SBRF barges.

1.0 General