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Where is Davie making a good name for themselves on repair? STJ has been ongoing for a while now, and even allowing for growing pains for a new repair yard (for DND contracts) it hasn't been seemless.
When they used to do refits regularly, we at one point went in and basically restarted a ship (Gatineau?) and sailed her out of there because of their shenanigans.
They were bidder 3 of 3 in the NSS, and from what I've seen on the repair side they are still number 3. Would be number 4 if the yard in St. Catherines was still operating.
Nothing against them; pretty big learning curves and requires a long time to develop the experience, and also relies on DND to have enough experienced people to support the DWP and form the QAR (which we don't have enough of either).
If their performance matched their PR, they could be as good as VSL on the repair side, but requires a lot of learning on some key things like QC, planning etc, and there is no way to do that other than to do it.
When they used to do refits regularly, we at one point went in and basically restarted a ship (Gatineau?) and sailed her out of there because of their shenanigans.
They were bidder 3 of 3 in the NSS, and from what I've seen on the repair side they are still number 3. Would be number 4 if the yard in St. Catherines was still operating.
Nothing against them; pretty big learning curves and requires a long time to develop the experience, and also relies on DND to have enough experienced people to support the DWP and form the QAR (which we don't have enough of either).
If their performance matched their PR, they could be as good as VSL on the repair side, but requires a lot of learning on some key things like QC, planning etc, and there is no way to do that other than to do it.