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The Log • May 6 - 19, 2016 • 7 SAN DIEGO BAY


Repairing Navy ships is now part of the services offered by Marine Group Boat Works shipyards located in Chula Vista (pictured), National City and San Jose del Cabo.


Marine Group Boat Works awarded contract with U.S. Navy


Chula Vista shipyard has an agreement to repair naval vessels.


By Parimal M. Rohit


CHULA VISTA — A family-owned shipyard says it is playing with the big boys now as Marine Group Boat Works was awarded a Master Ship Repair Agreement, or MSRA, by the U.S. Navy on April 1. Exact terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Such agreements are generally


awarded to shipyards with larger oper- ations, the company, which identifi es itself as a small business, stated. The MSRA between Marine Group


and the Navy would allow the shipyard to do large-scale government ship repairs. Marine Group CEO Herb Engel said the contract award symbolizes a passing of the torch from Southwest Marine, which no longer operates in the area, to his company. Southwest Marine was Marine Group’s predeces- sor. The former shipyard was regularly awarded MSRA agreements, such as a $10.3 million contract in 1997 to work on USS Kitty Hawk and a multi-million deal in 1999 to overhaul and modern- ize USS Princeton. “For those of us who remembered


Southwest Marina, this is taking us back in time to when we were awarded our fi rst MSRA in 1976 and went on to become the largest ship repair com- pany on the West Coast,” Engel said in a statement. “As a family-owned business we are very pleased to have re-established this achievement as a small business.” Being awarded an MSRA contract


by the Navy means Marine Group Boat Works must perform all aspects of large ship repairs, including planning, quality control, shipboard and off-ship production, component and systems testing, and vessel trials. Marine Group Boat Works would also be required to work on Littoral Combat Ships or larger.


The government contract award also qualifi es Marine Group to com- pete for “fi rm fi xed price” or “delivery orders” projects. “This means that Marine Group will


provide the government a fi xed-cost estimate to get the necessary repairs complete, therefore assuming the responsibility of completing the project within the budget set for themselves,” according to Marine Group staff. “Fixed-price contracts allow the gov- ernment better budget forecasting and maintenance and ultimately can save the taxpayers’ money.” Repairing Navy ships adds to the


list of services offered at Marine Group. The company also performs new vessel construction and repairs on yachts or commercial/government ships up to 220 feet. Todd Roberts, president of Marine


Group, said the agreement with the Navy would also benefi t the company’s recreational customers. “Customers from our other seg- ments actually benefi t from this MSR agreement in that the highly techni- cal resources, technology and equip- ment that we’ve acquired to meet all the qualifi cations of the Navy is now available to everyone else we service,” Roberts said. “To name a few resources, we’re talking a waterjet metal cutting machine, PropScan technology for digitally balancing propellers, new fl oating docks equipped with ample shorepower and more.” Marine Group is headquartered in


Chula Vista but also has an operation in neighboring National City; a third operation is in San Jose del Cabo. The Chula Vista headquarters features a 665-ton travelift and about 2,100 feet of docks. National City’s shipyard is home to a 300-foot travelift. Other Marine Group clients are the


Port of San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Golden Gate Bridge and Transportation District. More information about Marine


Group can be found on its website, marinegroupboatworks.com.


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