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§8684 Overhaul of Naval Vessels: Competition Between Public and Private Shipyards

Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 863 — NAVAL VESSELS › § 8684

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Secretary of the Navy to make sure that, when the Navy awards a repair, alteration, overhaul, or conversion contract after competition between public and private shipyards, three rules are followed. Public shipyard bids must include the full future retirement costs for their civilian workers calculated using Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 and, if public and private yards do not both have equal access to the Navy supply system, a proportionate share of the Navy supply system costs. Costs for Navy oversight of the contract must be added to private shipyard bids for comparison, and the award must be based on that comparability analysis.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8684

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of the Navy should ensure, in any case in which the Secretary awards a project for repair, alteration, overhaul, or conversion of a naval vessel following competition between public and private shipyards, that each of the following criteria is met:
(1)The bid of any public shipyard for the award includes—
(A)the full costs to the United States associated with future retirement benefits of civilian employees of that shipyard consistent with computation methodology established by Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76; and
(B)in a case in which equal access to the Navy supply system is not allowed to public and private shipyards, a pro rata share of the costs of the Navy supply system.
(2)Costs applicable to oversight of the contract by the appropriate Navy supervisor of shipbuilding, conversion, and repair are added to the bid of any private shipyard for the purpose of comparability analysis.
(3)The award is made using the results of the comparability analysis.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 8684 was renumbered section 9252 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7314 of this title as this section. 1989—Pub. L. 101–189 renumbered section 7313 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 100–456, div. A, title XII, § 1225(b), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 2055, provided that: “section 7313 [now 8684] of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), applies to any award by the Secretary of the Navy made after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 29, 1988] for repair, alteration, overhaul, or conversion of a naval vessel following competition between public and private shipyards.”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8684

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102