Bath protesting HII's $931M shipyard services win, second to do so after Austal

By Justin Katz / June 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office last week over a shipyard services contract worth up to $931 million, becoming the second shipbuilder to do so.

The contract was a recompetition for Littoral Combat Ship planning yard services, which the Navy awarded to Huntington Ingalls Industries in April. BIW was the incumbent.

According to GAO's docket, the bid protest was filed June 20 and will be decided by Sept. 30.

Austal USA last month filed its own protest with GAO over the same contract award, Inside Defense reported.

An HII spokesman declined to comment on the protest, and representatives for Bath did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a May 1 statement, HII said the contract "will provide the LCS program with post-delivery life-cycle support, which includes fleet modernization program planning, design engineering and modeling, logistics support, long-lead-time material support, and preventative and planned maintenance system item development and scheduling."

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