SSC Pacific Special Projects and Electronics

The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command established this Master IDIQ for sustainment and technical support of special projects and electronic systems on June 26, 2013, with a last date to order of June 25, 2018—ordering closed over eight years ago. This vehicle is inactive and unsuitable for new pursuit.

During its five-year ordering window, the IDIQ generated 50 delivery orders totaling $18.6 million in combined potential value, with $16.7 million obligated (90% utilization). Annual ordering peaked in 2014 (10 orders) and finished strong in 2018 (11 orders), averaging roughly 8–9 orders per year in the middle years. The final task order award occurred on December 18, 2018, making all current work historical.

Scope centered on engineering services for naval electronic warfare and information systems—primarily restoration and maintenance of AN/WLR-8(V) surveillance systems, audio/visual equipment upgrades, and site surveys for microwave network migrations. A notable portion of work supported the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) microwave relocation program across El Paso, Tucson, Laredo, and Rio Grande Valley sectors, delivered as performance-based task orders with project management and technical implementation components.

Competition was severely concentrated. Serco Inc. dominated with 42 of 50 orders (87% of task-order count) and $16.3 million combined potential value—a near-monopoly that left only six orders totaling $2.1 million to Science Applications International Corporation and two orders of $297 thousand to Leidos. Approximately 74% of all orders by potential value funded the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command; Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed three orders valued at $1.1 million.

All 50 task orders carried unrestricted, competitive awards with no set-aside designations. Most orders priced as Cost Plus Fixed Fee or Cost No Fee, with ceiling values typically in the $100 thousand to $500 thousand range, though single large engineering services orders exceeded $2 million. Task-order durations generally ran 6–18 months.

The successor vehicle, SSC Pacific Special Projects and Electronics Systems II, was awarded July 8, 2019, and should be evaluated instead for active business opportunity.

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific) in support of Special Projects and Electronic Systems has identified a requirement to provide current relevant knowledge, experience and capability to assist the branch in its execution of sustainment and technical support of Special Projects and Electronic systems. The support includes experimental, demonstration and developmental technology.