Training Systems Development 2018-2021

The Naval Undersea Warfare Division, Newport awarded a Master IDIQ on January 26, 2018 for Navy training systems development and technical adequacy support, with the ordering period closing on January 24, 2021—making this vehicle inactive and unsuitable for new pursuit.

This vehicle is closed to new orders as of five years and five months ago. All 26 task orders were awarded between January 2018 and August 2019, with the portfolio fully obligated at $2.7 million combined potential value. The vehicle's shared ceiling stood at $149.3 million, but execution captured only 1.8% of that capacity, suggesting either significant underbidding at the vehicle level or planned capacity that remained unused before the ordering window expired.

The scope spans Navy Training Systems Plan updates and development, curriculum design including interactive media instruction and virtual task trainers, technical training equipment adequacy assessment, and classroom administration support including installation and modification services. Task orders ranged from administrative post-award conferences valued under $2,500 to substantive development work such as guided missile destroyer machinery control system analysis ($238,191) and surface trainer training system services ($323,158), with most orders in the $75,000–$120,000 range on firm-fixed-price terms.

Sonalysts Inc. dominated the vehicle with 13 orders totaling $1.7 million in potential value (63% of the portfolio), while Transtecs Corporation held 12 orders valued at $1 million (37%), and Seacorp LLC captured a single $3 thousand order. All orders were unrestricted (no set-aside designation), and all funded Naval Sea Systems Command as the sole customer agency. The vehicle experienced modest front-loaded ordering velocity—nine orders in 2018, then 17 in 2019—before activity ceased entirely after August 2019. No successor vehicle or follow-on IDIQ has been identified in the source material.

The Naval Undersea Warfare Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) has awarded a Master IDIQ for training systems and services to ensure the technical adequacy, accuracy and currency of all Technical Training Equipment (TTE), Training Device (TD) and training material/equipment, technical data and curriculum in the Navy school houses. In addition, this requirement includes all aspects of Navy Training Systems Plans (NTSP) updates and/or development, curriculum development to include Interactive Media Instruction (IMI) such as Virtual Task Trainers (VTT) and PC Simulation, as well as classroom/lab administration support to include installation, modification, and upgrades in support of the development of Training System Installation Plans.