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Irving ship Building is in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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I would imagine many of the goods found in the ROF would be wonderful for making warships and for the Made in Canada image.

============================================================================so where are we today with this warship project?

Oct. 22, 2018 there was this..

https://www.design-engineering.com/warships-lockheed-canada-1004031796/

OTTAWA – The federal government is giving U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin the first crack at inking a contract to design Canada’s $60-billion fleet of new warships.

Government officials say Lockheed’s proposed design beat out two rival submissions during what has been a long and extremely sensitive competition to design the replacements for the Navy’s entire frigate and destroyer fleets.

However, that doesn’t mean Lockheed executives will be popping champagne, as negotiators for both sides will now have to sit down and iron out details—including the final cost—before an actual contract is awarded.

The stakes will be high for both sides, with hundreds of millions of dollars in play as well as pressure to make up for lost time even though whatever decisions are taken could have ramifications for the navy—and taxpayers—for decades.

The government has reserved the right to walk away from the talks—if Lockheed drives too hard a bargain—and negotiate with the second-place bidder, which the government did not identify, though officials are hoping that won’t be necessary and a contract will be signed this winter.

The warships are to be built starting in the early 2020s by Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding, which worked with the government in identifying Lockheed as the preferred bidder and will also participate in the pending negotiations.

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but then, like all large projects....it seems...there is a ..delay due to legal challenges.

https://obj.ca/article/lockheed-martin-canadas-preferred-status-60b-warships-competition-under-legal-fire

Lockheed Martin Canada's preferred status in $60B warships competition under legal fire

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Nov 22, 2018 7:36am EST

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The $60-billion effort to build new warships for Canada's navy has hit another snag, this time in the form of a legal challenge by one of three companies in the competition to design the vessels.

The federal government announced last month that a consortium including Ottawa-based Lockheed Martin Canada beat out two rivals in the long and extremely sensitive competition to design replacements for the navy's frigates and destroyers. The firm has said in the past that Ottawa suppliers and subcontractors would stand to benefit should the U.S. defence giant’s local operations be tapped for the massive contract.

Lockheed's design was based on a brand-new class of frigates for the British navy called the Type 26. The company is negotiating a final contract with the government and Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding, which will build the ships.

But one of the other two bidders, Alion Science and Technology, has asked the Federal Court to quash the government's decision, saying Lockheed's design did not meet the navy's stated requirements and should have been disqualified.

Two of those requirements related to the ship's speed, Alion said in court filings, while the third related to the number of crew berths.

The rules of the competition required the federal procurement department and Irving, which helped evaluate the bids, "to reject Lockheed's bid because of its non-compliance," Alion added. Instead, they selected it as the preferred design.

Alion added that its own proposed design, which was based on a Dutch frigate, met all of the navy's requirements. It also said that it has received no information about why Lockheed's bid was selected over its own, despite requests for answers.

Lockheed Martin, Irving and Public Services and Procurement Canada declined to comment because the matter is before the courts. The third company involved in the design competition, Spanish firm Navantia, has remained largely silent on Lockheed's successful bid.

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The government is planning to build 15 new warships starting in the next three or four years, which will replace Canada's 12 aging Halifax-class frigates and already-retired Iroquois-class destroyers. They're to be the navy's backbone for most of the century.

The bid by Lockheed, which also builds the F-35 stealth fighter and other military equipment, was contentious from the moment the design competition was launched in October 2016.

The federal government had originally said it wanted a "mature design" for its new warship fleet, which was widely interpreted as meaning a vessel that has already been built and used by another navy.

But the first Type 26 frigates are only now being built by the British government and the design has not yet been tested in full operation.

There were also complaints from industry that the deck was stacked in the Type 26's favour because of Irving's connections with British shipbuilder BAE, which originally designed the Type 26 and partnered with Lockheed to offer the ship to Canada.

Irving, which worked with the federal government to pick the top design, also partnered with BAE in 2016 on an ultimately unsuccessful bid to maintain the navy's new Arctic patrol vessels and supply ships.

That 35-year contract ended up going to another company.

Irving and the federal government have repeatedly rejected such complaints, saying they conducted numerous consultations with industry and used a variety of firewalls and safeguards to ensure the choice was completely fair.

But industry insiders had long warned that Lockheed's selection as the top bidder, combined with numerous changes to the requirements and competition terms after it was launched – including a number of deadline extensions – would spark lawsuits.

Government officials acknowledged last month the threat of legal action, which has become a favourite tactic for companies that lose defence contracts, but expressed confidence that they would be able to defend against such an attack.

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