Guam time charter tugs reprocurement (c)
Past Recompete Updated
- Agency
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Navy Military Sealift Command Norfolk
Military Sealift Command, Department of Defense
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $7,500,000 to $50,000,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Incumbent contract
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- N3220522C4057 Federal contract award held by Cabras Marine Corporation Ends Feb 27, 2027 · Value with all options $14,471,596
- Previous solicitation
- Guam Harbor Tugs Time Charter N3220521R4196 · Posted Nov 10, 2021
- Anticipated award
- Through
- Acquisition strategy
- Follow-on to Existing Contract
- NAICS code
- 488330 Navigational Services to Shipping
- Place of performance
- Norfolk, VA
- Forecast number
- N32205-26-RFPREQ-DSM-PM4-0015
Forecast details come from the Navy's Long Range Acquisition Estimates. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The Military Sealift Command Norfolk is recompeting a contract for two U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Naval Base Guam, with solicitation release estimated for April 1, 2026, and award estimated for October 1, 2026. Services include towing, mooring, berthing, docking, and vessel assistance for various craft types, as well as emergency response to weather, fires, groundings, oil spills, and search-and-rescue operations; the contractor must maintain 24-hour-per-day availability with adequate staff and communications to respond to government requests. The government reserves the right to use government-owned, controlled, or chartered tugs jointly or separately with the contractor's tugs.
The estimated award value ranges from $7.5 million to $50 million for a period of performance of 59 months, with fixed-price contract type. Place of performance is Norfolk, Virginia, with work conducted in the navigable waters of Guam Island and Naval Base Guam. The contracting office is MSC Norfolk (N32205).
The incumbent award is definitive contract N3220522C4057, originally awarded to Cabras Marine Corporation on March 24, 2022, in the amount of $14,471,596 with firm fixed pricing. Cabras Marine, a woman-owned small business and SBA-certified HUBZone firm, performed towing, mooring, berthing, and vessel assistance services at Naval Base Guam; the contract runs through February 27, 2027.
Forecast text
The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is soliciting for two (2) U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Naval Base Guam, GU. This contract is for requirements that cannot be satisfied with government-owned, government operated vessels. The following is a list of the services to be performed under the contract but is not an all-inclusive list: towing, twisting, mooring, berthing, docking, streaming, shifting, assisting, pulling, and escorting various vessel types; such as, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, and objects of whatsoever nature including anything carried thereon. The required services also include: transfers of pilots and government personnel and tug emergency support services, including responses to weather conditions, threatening vessels; shipboard fires; vessel groundings; vessel equipment failures; downed aircraft; oil spills; missions of mercy; collisions; ammunition mishaps; search-and- rescue operations; and any national defense exigencies. The charter also requires the Owner's Representative to provide adequate staff and communications to promptly respond to Government's requests for services under this Contract on a 24-hour-a-day basis. Government reserves the right to use Government-owned, controlled, or chartered tugs or vessels separately or jointly with Owner's Tugs in the performance of any services listed in this Contract.
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