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L -- POST SHAKEDOWN AVAILABILITIES FOR DDG 77 USS O'KANE AND DDG 80 USS ROOSEVELT POC Contracting Officer, R. Fields (SEA 02231) 703/602-7517; Contract Specialist, Kristina Newman (02231N) 703/602-7517 The Naval Sea Systems Command intends to modify Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc.'s Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) N00024-95-G-2808 for Post Shakedown Availabilities (PSA) for DDG 51 Class Destroyers to include assistance to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNSY) to plan and accomplish the DDG 77 USS O'KANE PSA and to include efforts of advanced planning for the DDG 80 USS ROOSEVELT PSA. The DDG 77 PSA is scheduled to be accomplished in the ship's Pearl Harbor, Hawaii homeport during a ten week period commencing approximately 21 February 2000. In accordance with the Navy's policy of performing short duration availabilities in the homeport, PHNSY will accomplish part of the PSA. PHNSY, because of the extreme workload constraints, cannot perform more than minimal temporary-services and logistical efforts in support of the DDG 77 PSA. Only Ingalls has the vast experience, knowledge and expertise as a DDG 51 Class building yard to successfully plan, engineer, liaison and execute the remaining portion of the PSA and assist PHNSY in performing and accomplishing these complex, short term, compressed schedule PSAs in time to met the ship's accelerated deployment. The DDG 80 PSA is scheduled to be accomplished at Ingalls in Pascagoula, Mississippi during a sixteen week period commencing approximately 15 January 2001. Under the above efforts, Ingalls will provide: engineering support in the form of work specification preparation, on-site resolution of technical issues, craft liaison support and material identification; all necessary material for accomplishment of work specifications; shipping and receiving services and coordination of material kitting issuance to the trades; accomplishment of overall PSA milestone planning as well as detailed production planning of all individual work items to support PSA milestones; craft labor on-site in Pearl Harbor to execute the detailed plan for DDG 77; and incorporation of DDG 51 Class lessons learned and shipbuilding expertise into all planning and execution efforts. The Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO) will issue one or more orders under Ingalls' existing BOA N00024-95-G-2802 for all efforts. See Numbered Note: 22. Posted 07/21/99 (W-SN357200). (0202)

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