SEACAT Exercise Tanker 2

The Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command seeks to charter a coastal or medium range tanker vessel to serve as a training platform for boarding exercises during Exercise SEACAT 2023. The solicitation requires offerors to provide a vessel between 75-200 meters in length with a maximum freeboard of 7 meters that has proficient English speaking crew. The tanker must be able to report its position every two hours and will embark a US Coast Guard detachment of six personnel on August 17 in Singapore to facilitate security force boarding exercises off the coasts of Brunei and the Philippines through August 26. Offerors must provide their charter rate for the 12 day period along with fuel pricing and comply with health and safety requirements, with proposals due by May 24, 2023.

This unrestricted solicitation carries no set-aside designations. The work involves coastal and ferry transport of goods without NAICS/PSC codes. The place of performance will be Singapore and locations off Brunei and the Philippines from August 15-26, 2023. Offerors must demonstrate a vessel between 75-200 meters capable of supporting a team of 6 for 12 days to receive consideration.