The negotiated procedure launched by the General Command of the Port Authority Corps to equip the Coast Guard with three new non-prototypical offshore SAR (search and rescue) units, with a possible option for an additional 21 vessels of the same type, is drawing to a close.
The only operator competing in the procedure – with a unit cost of 5.4 million euros and a total of 16.3 million (plus 500 thousand euros for the intellectual property of the project, for a total of 16.8 million) – is Piloda Shipyard.
The Neapolitan shipyard, as learned from a document published a few days ago, came forward with an offer worth 16.533 million euros, of which 16.038 million for the three units and 495 thousand for the project. The phase of verifying the possession of the requirements will now follow and, should everything prove regular, the provisional award will follow in the not too distant future.
The step just concluded comes at the end of a rather complex process. A first attempt by the General Command of the Port Authority Corps to acquire the three vessels had already begun in 2023, with the launch of an initial tender (with a unit budget of 3.85 million euros and an option for 22 other vessels), which later received no bids. That procedure was followed in January 2024 by a second tender with the budget already raised to 5.4 million per unit (but with a reduction to 21 optional units), which also ended unsuccessfully.
Finally, the Port Authority Corps then played, at the end of 2024, the card of the negotiated procedure by invitation. If everything proceeds without a hitch, the first unit will be delivered within fifteen months from the date of effectiveness of the contract, while the second must arrive within twenty months; finally, the third must be delivered within twenty-four months from the date of effectiveness of the contract.
F.M.
