Contract Award: $6M for Operation & Maintenace of Ships for Deployed Military Forces Worldwide

Department of Defense (DOD) awarded Tote Services Inc. an O&M contract to support Military Sealift Command offshore petroleum distribution system ship USNS Vice Adm. K.R. Wheeler, and its support vessel USNS Fast Tempo.

The 2 are U.S. Navy’s only vessel capable of pumping diesel or aviation fuel to shore from up to eight miles off the coast. With flexible pipe stored on 35-foot-tall spools on its weather deck, Wheeler delivers vital fuel to U.S. forces abroad during contingency operations where port facilities may be either damaged, destroyed or non-existent. The 145 foot Fast Tempo sails with Wheeler and its primary support vessel.

Tote Services Inc., Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $6,938,148 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N0003-12-C-3131) to exercise a one-year option period for the operation and maintenance of the USNS VADM K.R. Wheeler and the USNS Fast Tempo. These ships support the deployed military forces worldwide. Work will be performed worldwide and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2014. Transportation working capital funds in the amount of $6,938,148 are being obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-12-C-3131).

About Tote Services 

Tote Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey wons and oversees a portfolio of independently managed companies organized in four lines of businesses: Maritime, Services, Shipholdings and Logistics. Tote is part of the Saltchuk family owned private investment company located in Seattle, Washington.