Navy seeks bids up to $250 million for Bangor pier extension

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The Navy has begun the search for a contractor to extend a concrete pier nearly a tenth of a mile at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, where it can bring together a trio of the force's most elite submarines.

The expected price tag: in the neighborhood of $100 million to $250 million.

Funding for the pier extension, off Wahoo Road on the Bangor base, has already been approved by Congress. The proposal request went out this month and officials anticipate awarding a contract in December, according to Leslie Yuenger, a spokeswoman for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest.

Bangor is already home to a mighty fleet of submarines: eight Ohio-class ballistic missile subs and two Ohio-class guided-missile subs. Currently, the USS Jimmy Carter, part of the Navy's advanced Submarine Squadron Five, already has a berth at a Bangor dock. But Carter's two fellow Seawolf-class vessels, the USS Connecticut and the USS Seawolf, currently are homeported in Bremerton. The pier extension would make it possible for all three to berth together.

The subs, developed in the Cold War, were designed as the Navy's fastest, quietest, deepest-diving, and "most capable." The three arrived at Puget Sound from New London, Connecticut in the early 2000s.