Navy Decision Support Tools 2010-2013

The Naval Supply Systems Command awarded a Master IDIQ for Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology services on March 11, 2010, supporting decision support tools in manpower, personnel, training, and education research through capabilities generation, optimization, experimental economics, and modeling and simulation; ordering closed on August 10, 2014, and is no longer active.

The vehicle funded 14 task orders over its ordering window, with combined potential value of $17.9 million and $16.1 million obligated (90% of potential). Award activity peaked in 2012 with five orders and declined thereafter, with the final order issued in September 2013. All task orders used cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. Booz Allen Hamilton dominated the vehicle, capturing eight orders worth $17.1 million combined potential value—approximately 96% of the vehicle's total potential. Serco Inc. held five orders valued at $670 thousand, and IBM held one order for $78 thousand. No task orders carried small-business set-asides; all were unrestricted competitive awards.

Navy customers used the vehicle across multiple commands. The Bureau of Naval Personnel placed five orders totaling $2.3 million, Naval Supply Systems Command placed three orders totaling $6.3 million, Naval Education and Training Command placed one order for $3.7 million, and Information Warfare Systems Command placed one order for $1.5 million. Six additional Navy and non-Navy agencies placed the remaining task orders, with funding spread across eight distinct customer agencies.

Task-order values ranged from approximately $10 thousand (travel support) to $6.2 million (ceiling value). The largest single order, Delivery Order N0018910DZ002-0008, carried a ceiling of $6.2 million with $5.7 million obligated and completion scheduled for September 2015. Most orders supported option periods under a multi-year structure, with several task orders funding research across multiple option periods spanning 2010 through 2015.

This vehicle has reached contract closure and presents no new pursuit opportunity.

Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, Contracting Department, Philadelphia Division, Philadelphia, PA has awarded a Master IDIQ for Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology services that directly supports decision support tools in manpower, personnel, training and education research using Capabilities Generation, Optimization, Experimental Economics, and Modeling & Simulation. This vehilce expands research conducted using agent technologies in modeling and simulation for model evaluation, redesign, and development. It also furthers research in behavioral economics and its concepts within the policy planning processes, and capabilities and optimization for individual and organizational assessment to utilize and make substitutions within the total force for distribution and assignment.