Tug Services for NPTU, Charleston, SC
THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR INFORMATION AND ACQUISITION PLANNING PURPOSES. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) AND A FORMAL SOLICITATION IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. THIS NOTICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO ISSUE AN RFQ, CONTRACT, OR ORDER.
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Notification shall be e-mailed to mitch.mickley@us.af.mil or Melissa Adams melissa.adams.21@us.af.mil. Please notify the Contract Specialist no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Time, July 8th, 2019.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Tug Services for Naval Propulsion Training Unit, Joint Base Charleston, Weapons Station, Goose Creek, SC.
•1) Requires up to four (4) U.S. flagged tugs to provide harbor support services and ship handling in specified zones in the Charleston, SC region.
•2) One tug is required to have off-ship fire-fighting capabilities. The fire-fighting tug may be one of the four tugs above or a fifth tug.
•3) Vessel types that may require tug services are listed in Attachment 1. The list is a representation of vessels to be supported and is not all-inclusive.
The following list is provided for illustrative purposes only and describes some of the services that may be performed on a 24 hour per day, 365 days per year basis:
•1) Towing, twisting, mooring, berthing, docking, streaming, shifting, assisting, pulling, and escorting those Vessel types identified in Attachment 1 and miscellaneous other vessels, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, and objects of whatsoever nature including anything carried thereon. Government reserves the right to use Government-owned, controlled, or chartered Tugs or vessels separately or jointly with Owner's Vessels in the performance of any services.
•2) Transfers of pilots and Government Personnel by Vessel.
•3) Conduct approximately three (3) dead-stick moves within designated zones.
•4) Emergency support services, including responses to weather conditions threatening vessels, piers, dry-docks, or shore facilities; shipboard fires; vessels aground; Vessel equipment failures; downed aircraft; oil spills; missions of mercy; collisions; ammunition mishaps; search-and-rescue operations; shipboard casualty; and National Defense Emergencies.
•5) Line handling
•6) Providing personnel (other than a riding crew) to go aboard a tow.
•7) Provide adequate staff and communications to promptly respond to Government's requests for services on a 24-hour-day basis.
•8) Tug(s) may be ordered to any berth, dock, anchorage, wharf, place, open roadstead, submarine line, or alongside any vessel, barge, lighter, craft, hull, derrick, or object of whatsoever nature that the Government may direct, provided the vessel can lie always safely afloat except in harbors or waters where groundings are custom of the port.
•9) Tug services for the movement of the Floating Support Security Barrier that surrounds the NPTU site. Disconnection/reconnection of the security barrier will be completed by the Government. The contractor shall be responsible for moving/pulling the security barrier to/from the connection/reconnection points. Movement/Tug of the security barrier is so the contractor may access the NPTU area to perform the necessary tug movements of any vessels, barges, submarines, crafts, hulls, sleds, derricks, lighters, etc.
•10) Be prepared for emergency movements between May to November in support of hurricane preparations. These movements will require three tugs for a period of about eight hours one day and two tugs for a period of about eight hours on a second day.
Areas of Performance
Areas of Performance
Charleston, SC, Wando River and associated navigable Waterways and offshore waters.
Zone 1: Below Cooper River Bridge
Zone 2: Above Cooper River Bridge to Minecraft Base Wando Terminal
Zone 3: Minecraft Base to Army Transportation Corps Depot
Zone 4: Army Transportation Corps Deport to AMOCO Dock and above Wando Terminal to Cainhoy Bridge on Wando River
Attachment 1
Vessels at NPTU
Hull Number
Vessel Type
LOA (ft)
Draft (ft)
Beam (ft)
Displacement (long-tons)
MTS-626
Submarine
360
27
33
5660
MTS-635
Submarine
360
27
33
5660
YFNX-20
Service barge
110
~3
30
210
IX-516
Service barge
302
10.5
90
6487
YC-1596
Service barge
110
~3
32
224
YFN-797
Service barge
110
~3
34
238
YC-1598
Service barge
110
~3
34
250
Mitch D. Mickley, Contract Specialist , Phone 8439634570, Email mitch.mickley@us.af.mil - Melissa D Adams, Contracting Officer, Phone 8439635197, Email melissa.adams.21@us.af.mil
