A five-year critical contract has been awarded via a 2021 MACC contract, originally intended primarily to repair stateside shipyards, when five companies were selected as awardees.
A five-year $330.5 million award for repairs to Guam's Glass Breakwater has been awarded to the Tutor Perini Corp.-Nan joint venture, through the $8 billion Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program Multiple Award Construction Contract or MACC contract, originally awarded by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific in 2021.
The Glass Breakwater connects to Cabras Island, the location of the Port of Guam, which handles more than 90% of local cargo imported to the island and was damaged by Typhoon Mawar in May 2023.
According to Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Marianas, the breakwater “is currently classified as failed by [the] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers damage criteria and is at risk of a breach from another strong storm.” NAVFAC said in an Oct. 13 release that the award includes repairs to the three most critically failed portions of the breakwater and pending future funding, the project may also include repairing the full length of the Glass Breakwater armoring …”
Design is expected to commence this month, with in-water work to begin around August 2025.
The other four bidders competing for task orders under the SIOP MACC are Bechtel National Inc., Dragados/Hawaiian Dredging/Orion JV, ECC Infrastructure LLC and Kiewit-Alberici SIOP MACC AJV.
Under the original 2021 award Guam was to see 10% of work of the eight-year MACC contract, with other areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans seeing 5%. Hawaii and Washington were to see 40% of the work each, with 5% of work to be conducted in “other areas,” with work expected to be completed by November 2029. The main purpose of the 2021 MACC was “to facilitate the potential future awards of task orders for military construction projects at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,” the U.S. Department of Defense said at the time.
In related news, NAVFAC Pacific hosted an Industry Day in August 2023 for the upcoming new submarine pier at Polaris Point. The concrete fixed single deck submarine repair pier will provide berthing for the four submarines homeported in Guam as part of Submarine Squadron 15. The pier will also provide berthing for one submarine tender and should be able to support heavy weather mooring.
That work is due to be awarded in the first quarter fiscal 2026. NAVFAC said at the time the project cost range is between $1 billion and $3 billion.
For background, see Guam to get submarine maintenance facility | Marianas Business Journal
In other Navy news, the USS Annapolis returned to Naval Base Guam following a three-month “Indo-Pacific deployment,” according to an Oct. 10 release from the U.S. Navy. During its deployment the submarine participated in “bilateral operations” with the French Navy and visited the port of Yokosuka in Japan. The Annapolis is part of Submarine Squadron 15. mbj