Contract Award: $63M Operations and Maintenance on Ships Worldwide through 2018
Department of Defense (DOD) — Patriot Contract Services, LLC is a leading maritime contractor to the U.S. Government, managing and operating vessels. PCS currently manages five Ready Reserve Force (RRF) ships for the United States Maritime Administration (MARAD), four Surge Large Medium Speed RO-RO (LMSR) vessels for the United States Navy, Military Sealift Command (MSC), as well as one special mission ship and one LMSR prepositioned ship for MSC. PCS also provides crewmembers for vessels operated by Kwajalein Range Services and other ship operators.
Patriot Contract Services LLC, Concord, Calif., was awarded a $63,346,311 firm-fixed-price contract for the operation and maintenance of eight government-owned Watson-class large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships. The ships will continue to support Military Sealift Command worldwide prepositioning requirements. This contract includes four one-year options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $329,245,641. Work will be performed at sea worldwide, and is expected to be completed by September 2018. Working capital contract funds in the amount of $63,346,311 are obligated for fiscal 2014, and will not expire at the end of the fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as a small business set-aside, with more than 50 companies solicited via the Military Sealift Command, Federal Business Opportunities and Navy Commerce Online websites, with five offers received. The Military Sealift Command, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
PCS has managed a wide range of vessel types for MARAD and MSC, including RO-RO vessels, LASH vessels, and general cargo vessels, powered by steam propulsion, slow speed diesels, medium speed didesels, and gas turbines. PCS maintains a network of highly experienced mariners and vessel managers who are capable of skillfully operating a wide range of vessels used for both rapid military support and active special military operations.
PCS has a perfect record of over 40 on-time vessel activations for the US Government fleets. These activations often occur with no advance notice, to test PCS’s ability to respond rapidly to the needs of the US Military. In every single activation over the ten years that PCS has managed vessels for the US Government fleets, PCS has passed these tests and delivered the vessels to our customer on time or ahead of schedule. In each case we leveraged our experience, skilled staff, effective work processes and efficient structure to fulfill all commitments and requirements and ensure that the vessels were ready for full operations in the allotted time.