Following the government-to-government contract signing, BAE Systems Customer Solutions & Support was awarded a $243 million contract to lead the preparation for transfer of the three units. Fleet Support Ltd., a joint venture of BAE Systems and the VT Group, was selected to perform the dockyard elements of the program, which will focus on extensive maintenance of the power plants and main gear wheels. The transfer package is expected to include fully equipped vessels, with the exception of the Harpoon antiship missile.
The HMS Norfolk will depart for Chile in early 2006, followed by the HMS Marlborough in early 2007 and the HMS Grafton in 2008. The three vessels will be paid for in installments over the next 10 years.
The delivery of the three Type 23-class frigates will complete the CN’s transition to a modern surface force solely through the used ship market. The CN will be operating a surface force built in the late 1980s and 1990s, pushing back any plans for new-construction surface combatants until at least 2016.
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