Image courtesy of Bob Webster licensed under CC BY 3.0
Under an IDIQ contract, the joint venture team of Burns & McDonnell and Moffatt & Nichol have been awarded a series of task orders with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast (NAVFAC-SE) for a $474 million repair project at the Trident Refit Facility, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia. TRIREFFAC-KB’s mission is to provide quality industrial, maintenance and logistics support for the overhaul, modernization, and repair of the nation’s elite nuclear ballistic and guided-missile submarine force.
Alternately titled “Dry Dock Recapitalization,” “TRF Dry Dock Repair,” and simply “Dry Dock Repairs,” the massive effort at the East Coast home of Trident nuclear-powered submarines began with a study, moved into design, and is now in Phase A of construction. NAVFAC-SE’s scope of work encompasses repairs to the massive structure—the largest covered dry dock in the Northern hemisphere—inclusive of building structure and envelope, power, lighting, fire protection, HVAC, plumbing, and support equipment and infrastructure. All existing training and maintenance facilities will be retrofitted, and some new facilities will be constructed to support the next generation of submarines.
As quoted in the March 23, 2020 issue of Seapower magazine, Trident Refit Facility Commanding Officer Capt. Paul Dinius, stated, “The overhaul and restoration of the Kings Bay Dry Dock is the most important strategic deterrence enterprise modernization effort outside of the construction of the new Columbia-class SSBN, a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.”
Axias, a subconsultant on the JV team, provided milestone estimates and construction schedules during the design phases and are currently working on independent government cost estimates for changes during construction. Alberici-Mortenson, a joint venture out of St. Louis, Missouri, was awarded the $191.9 million construction contract for Phase A in late March 2020. Work will be completed in July 2023.
It appears that there will be plenty of work to keep Steve Lee and the new Tampa office busy, as Axias is also on the same JV team that won a new five-year IDIQ from NAVFAC-SE in summer 2020. Under this IDIQ we will continue to provide similar services—estimating, value engineering, scheduling, risk assessment—at King’s Bay and other bases throughout NAVFAC-SE’s expansive region, which encompasses twelve states and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.