Civilians in the Battlefield Training Support

The Department of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command established this Master IDIQ on July 21, 2016, to procure training support services for Combat Arms Units, Combat Support Units, and other pre-deployment training operations. The vehicle's ordering period closed on September 14, 2018 — the last task order was placed in June 2021. This vehicle is no longer accepting new orders.

The Navy awarded 120 delivery orders totaling $6.1 million in combined potential value, with all dollars now obligated. Activity peaked in 2017–2018 (31–35 orders annually) and declined sharply afterward (15 orders in 2020, 9 in 2021), reflecting the closure of the ordering window three years prior to the most recent award. Roughly 99% of orders funded Navy Expeditionary Combat Command operations, with one subordinate order for Naval Construction Forces worth $88 thousand.

Competition concentrated heavily on two primes: Chi-Chack LLC held 78 orders ($3.7 million potential value, 65% of the portfolio) and Tope Technology, LLC held 42 orders ($2.4 million potential value, 35%). The portfolio split 72% unrestricted and 28% competitive 8(a) awards. Most task orders were firm fixed price, with individual order values typically ranging from $2 thousand to roughly $190 thousand, supporting discrete field training exercises, certification exercises, hostage rescue training, and role-player support during pre-deployment certification cycles. Work involved program management, makeup artists, set builders, foreign language subject matter experts, role players portraying civilians, insurgents, and hostile forces, plus vehicles, storefronts, watercraft, blank weapons, and battlefield simulation props.

This requirement will provide Civilians in the Battlefield training support services and training aids for Combat Arms Units, Combat Support Units, and other U. S. Navy or host installation resources engaged in pre-deployment training to be provided by the Contractor on an individual Task Order basis. Training services include: program management, role players, makeup artists, set builders and subject matter experts (SMEs) performing as foreign language speakers, civilians on the battlefield, insurgents, terrorists, military/police units and other personnel encountered in the intended area of operation. Training aids include: vehicles, store front facings, watercraft, blank weapons and other battlefield effects required to provide training environments that simulate real-world conditions.