Military Support Division Support 2015-2020

The Office of Naval Research awarded a Master IDIQ on February 9, 2015, to provide engineering and technical support for specialized design, fabrication, installation, operation, removal, disposal, and maintenance of unique research systems associated with VXS-1 airborne research laboratories. The vehicle's ordering period closed on February 8, 2020; no new task orders may be placed against it.

The Master IDIQ has been inactive for ordering for over six years. The vehicle established a $30 million shared ceiling and has executed 22 task orders with a combined potential value of $4.3 million; all obligated funds equal combined potential value, indicating the vehicle has been fully drawn. Task-order awards peaked in 2018 and 2019, with four and three orders respectively; activity has declined sharply since the ordering period closed, with only one award in 2020, one in 2021, and two in 2022. The most recent task order was awarded on September 27, 2022. Task orders span firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing, with individual order values typically ranging from approximately $15 thousand to $900 thousand.

Platform Systems, Incorporated dominates the vehicle, holding 20 of 22 task orders worth a combined $4.2 million in potential value, or roughly 98 percent of vehicle activity. Eagle Systems Inc. holds the two remaining orders, worth $66 thousand combined. The Navy Office of Naval Research funded all 22 orders; no other customer agencies are represented. No task orders carry set-aside designations; all awards were unrestricted competitive.

Work contracted includes aircraft modification design and analysis, equipment rack fabrication and installation, sensor package integration on ultra-long-endurance and NP-3C aircraft, intercommunication system replacement, controlled radiation pattern antenna installation, bomb bay equipment pallet maintenance and inspection, and support for research projects including NASA SNOWEX. The vehicle's geographic scope reflects work on airborne platforms assigned to VXS-1, including RC-12 and NP-3C aircraft. This vehicle is closed to new pursuit and offers no pathway for new entrants given its exhausted potential value and terminated ordering period.

The Naval Research Laboratory has awarded a Master IDIQ for engineering and technical support for the performance of specialized design, fabrication, installation, operation, removal, disposal, and maintenance of unique research systems associated with VXS-1 airborne research laboratories.