Communication Division Technical and Engineering Support

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established a Master IDIQ for communications engineering and technical support with a shared ceiling of $155.4 million on March 3, 2016; ordering closed on February 27, 2021, and the vehicle is no longer accepting task orders.

The vehicle is inactive. The last task order was awarded on March 1, 2021, more than five years ago. The ordering deadline has passed, and no new work can be placed against this IDIQ. This is a successor vehicle to a prior Communications Division Technical and Engineering Support IDIQ awarded in December 2008; no information on a follow-on vehicle is present in the source.

Ordering activity peaked in 2018 with 18 awards, then declined to 11 in 2017, 14 in 2019, 7 in 2020, and 1 in 2021. Sixty-two task orders were issued across the vehicle's lifetime. Of the combined potential value of $58.4 million, $56.2 million (96 percent) has been obligated, signaling near-full consumption of available work before the ordering period ended.

Scope reflects systems engineering, integration, test and evaluation, and lifecycle support across Navy communications platforms. Named programs include the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite Communications Navy Multiband Terminal, Joint UHF MILSATCOM Network Integrated (JMINI) Control System, Global Broadcast System (GBS), Enhanced Polar System Gateway Segment, and related infrastructure. Work also supported the Littoral Combat Ship mission module, fleet readiness directorates, and cybersecurity services. All task orders employed cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing.

Competition is concentrated among four primes. Booz Allen Hamilton Engineering Services holds the largest combined potential value at $19.1 million across 13 orders, followed by Science Applications International Corporation at $16.5 million across 16 orders, Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services at $14.2 million across 24 orders, and G2 Software Systems at $8.6 million across 9 orders. Nearly all orders are unrestricted; 95 percent of the 62 task orders carry no set-aside designation, with 5 percent as total small business awards.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (the contracting activity) accounts for 60 of the 62 orders and $55.7 million of the $58.4 million combined potential value. One order funded the Department of the Navy United States Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic) at $2.1 million, and one funded the Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command at $624 thousand.

Task orders typically ranged from several hundred thousand to several million dollars. The largest individual order was delivery order N6600116D0068-N6600119F0109 (Aviation Logistics Environment product line software development) at $6.6 million, followed by N6600116D0068-N6600120F0127 at $3.8 million (obligated) and N6600116D0069-N6600120F0238 (JMINI/Integrated Waveform Control System support) at $3.1 million. Most orders had performance periods of one to two years.

The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) has awarded a Master IDIQ for Communications Division technical and engineering support. The SSC Pacific Communications Division, in response to initiatives promulgated by the Department of Defense (DoD) and other agencies, performs engineering services (including Research and Development) for the design, procurement, fabrication, configuration, installation, integration, logistics, life-cycle support maintenance functions, and evaluations of communication technology on multiple systems for various Program Offices. Technical support is needed in the areas of project management, engineering, test and evaluation, integrated logistics, facilities, implementation and integration, on-site technical troubleshooting and installation, and security.