Maintenance, Repair, and Preservation of Edgecumbe Barge

The U.S. Navy, through the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, intends to award a firm-fixed-price contract for the maintenance, repair, and preservation of the 48-year-old Edgecumbe RCD Barge, a 240-foot steel-hulled vessel with a 60-foot width and 2-foot 11-inch draft. The work must be performed at a contractor facility located within the Puget Sound region, defined as the West Coast of the continental United States from Olympia to Bellingham, Washington, to ensure proper government oversight. The contract period is strictly limited to 23 days, from December 1, 2026, to December 23, 2026, requiring precise coordination for vessel delivery to and from the contractor’s facility. The scope includes comprehensive cleaning, zinc anode replacement, preliminary and final air testing of all tanks and voids, gas-free certification, and full support for American Bureau of Shipping and U.S. Coast Guard inspections. The contractor must also arrange and coordinate safe undocking and return of the barge to government custody. Contract performance is governed by detailed technical and regulatory standards, including compliance with ABS and USCG requirements, NAVSEA guidelines, and applicable federal laws such as 29 CFR and 42 USC. Preservation work requires strict environmental controls, surface chloride and conductivity limits, full curing of coatings before undocking, and use of calibrated data loggers to monitor environmental conditions. Documentation requirements are extensive, with mandatory deliverables including photographic evidence of arrival conditions, environmental and hazardous waste management plans, incident reports within 24 hours of occurrence, hazardous waste reports, paint preservation appendices, welder qualification records, safety data sheets, and an emergency heavy weather plan with mooring calculations. The contractor must submit a list of key personnel, designate a single point of contact with business and residential phone numbers, and maintain a foreign material exclusion log. All work must avoid prohibited substances such as asbestos, PCBs, cadmium, and mercury, and all labeling must conform to Corrosion Resistant Steel plates per Drawing S2803-980209 Rev L. The solicitation is fully open to competition, requiring all offerors to be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM), and while no contract value is specified, cost reporting thresholds for change authorizations are established at $50,000, $500,000,