Cutter Boat Over-The-Horizon V

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has a requirement to provide up to 197 Cutter Boat Over-The-Horizon V’s (CB-OTH V) that will deploy from USCG parent cutters (ships) such as the National Security Cutters, Offshore Patrol Cutters, Polar Security Cutters, Medium Endurance Cutters, and Fast Response Cutters.

The CB-OTH V is a multi-mission asset supporting: Search and Rescue, Drug Interdiction, Alien Migrant Interdiction Operations, Living Marine Resource, Other Law Enforcement, and Defense Readiness.  Parent cutters may employ the CB-OTH V throughout a spectrum of climates, weather conditions, sea states, and in both day and night environments.

This requirement will be conducted under the following U.S. Code provisions, listed in descending order of precedence, regarding the requirement to build boats for the Government within the United States: (a) 14 USC § 665 - Restriction on Construction of Vessels in Foreign Shipyards and (b) 10 USC § 7309 - Construction of Vessels in Foreign Shipyards: Prohibition.

The Government anticipates conducting a two-phase evaluation process. In Phase One, the Government will evaluate written proposals and up to four IDIQ contracts will be awarded based on the proposals deemed to be the most advantageous to the Government.  During Phase Two, the Government will conduct an in-water demonstration of accepted boats ordered from the initial awardees.  This in-water demonstration will result in a report which will be used to validate or update the Phase One evaluation.  The final Technical Evaluation will be used in a trade-off analysis resulting in selection of a single contractor as the best value to the Government.

Although the Government intends to award up to four contracts, this is not considered a multiple-award procurement in accordance with FAR 16.505(b) as the Government intends to down select to a single contract. Therefore, the fair opportunity rule does not apply.

The contract will have a five year base ordering period with one five year optional ordering period (ten years total).

The RFP is expected to be released in May or June 2020 via https://beta.sam.gov/. Hard copies of the solicitation and specification will not be issued.