NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown: Mid-Life Repair Services

Mid-life ship repair services for the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. 

The Ron Brown midlife overhaul modifications are envisioned to be described in work package specifications along with associated contract-level and functional-level design drawings. The specifications and associated drawings are not intended to include every detail of work required to carry out the modifications. The specifications will be developed to varying levels of detail depending on how well the work can be identified and considering the level of risk to cost and schedule of the overall project. The contractor will be responsible for the production-level design of all work packages.

Contract level design is defined as the description of the intent of the work to be completed for a modification. This may include overall system layout and operation or performance requirements. Equipment sizes will be identified; however, specific equipment may not be called out.  Functional level design is defined as complete determination of all engineering decisions. This includes equipment selection and in some cases routing of major system components. Production level design is defined as the complete description of industrial work required to execute a work package. This includes production drawings, definition of exact pipe/cable runs, drawing development, BOM development, etc.

The contractor will be required to obtain the services of a NA/ME firm to conduct production-level engineering.

The mid-life overhaul scope of work will include a vessel repower to include the replacement of the main propulsion system. This is envisioned to require removal of existing propulsion equipment (diesel generator sets, main propulsion motors, propulsion motor drives, propulsion motor cooling units, propulsion and ship service switchboards, etc.) and installation of new propulsion equipment. This will also require removal and installation of auxiliary systems and equipment. The end result of the repower effort will be a fully functional, approved electric propulsion and generation system meeting all applicable ABS, USCG, and SOLAS requirements. A Single System Vendor, independent from the Contractor, will be required to integrate all re-power related modifications.