Pearl harbor time charter tugs reprocurement (c)

Past Recompete Updated

Agency
Solicitation expected
Estimated value
$7,500,000 to $50,000,000
Set-aside
No set-aside

Forecast facts

Incumbent contract
Previous solicitation
Pearl Harbor Tugs N3220522R2053 · Posted Dec 2, 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-PM4-0011

Forecast details come from the Navy's Long Range Acquisition Estimates. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.

About this forecast

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is procuring four time-chartered, U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, with solicitation release estimated for July 1, 2026 and award estimated for October 1, 2026. The tugs must meet requirements of 46 U.S.C. § 55111 and perform towing, mooring, berthing, docking, streaming, shifting, and escorting of vessels, barges, submarines, and other craft, as well as pilot and personnel transfers and emergency support services including responses to weather, fires, groundings, oil spills, and search-and-rescue operations. The contractor must maintain adequate staff and communications to respond to government requests on a 24-hour basis; the government reserves the right to deploy government-owned or chartered tugs jointly with or separately from the contractor's vessels.

The estimated award value ranges from $7.5 million to $50 million, with a period of performance of approximately 59 months. Place of performance is Norfolk, Virginia. No set-aside applies to this competitive procurement.

The recompeted award is contract N3220522C4032, a definitive fixed-price contract awarded to P & R Water Taxi LLC on March 23, 2022 with a ceiling value of $32.334 million and ultimate completion date of February 28, 2027. The prior contract, which covers the same scope of four time-chartered tugs for Pearl Harbor harbor support, has obligated $29.895 million to date under firm fixed pricing.

Forecast text

The Military Sealift Command (MSC) is soliciting for four (4) time-chartered, U.S. flag tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI. These tugs must meet requirements of 46 U.S.C. § 55111. 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, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, and objects of whatsoever nature including anything carried thereon. The 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. 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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