USCG Integrated Design Test and Evaluation Services

The U.S. Coast Guard awarded this Master IDIQ for integrated design testing and evaluation services supporting research and development across functional areas including acquisition support, aviation, C4ISR, environment and waterways, surface systems, and modeling and simulation on September 18, 2015, with ordering authority that closed on September 17, 2020. This vehicle is no longer available for new task orders.

The vehicle is now inactive and five years past its ordering deadline. Across its operational period, the Coast Guard issued ten task orders totaling $2.2 million in combined potential value, with all obligated funds ($2.2 million) fully expended. Task-ordering activity peaked in 2016 with five orders, declined to three orders in 2017 and one order in 2018, and closed with a single order in 2020. All task orders were competed unrestricted; no set-asides were used.

Serco Inc. dominated the vehicle, capturing five of ten orders and $1.1 million in combined potential value—roughly 50 percent of the total contract value. American Systems Corporation and HII Mission Technologies Corp each held two orders valued at $518 thousand and $329 thousand respectively, while Absg Consulting Inc. received one order for $227 thousand. The concentrated prime base reflects the specialized nature of RDC test and evaluation work.

Task orders were exclusively funded by the Coast Guard and ranged from roughly $130 thousand to $352 thousand in ceiling value, with performance periods typically spanning six to twenty-four months. Representative work included oil-mitigation system prototyping and testing, environmental buoy design review, over-the-horizon cutter boat vectoring evaluation, and inland waterway technology demonstrations. All task orders were priced as cost-plus-fixed-fee and have since closed out or reached ultimate completion between June 2017 and March 2023.

This vehicle presents no acquisition opportunity. Firms with prior IDT&E relationships to the Coast Guard RDC should monitor for successor vehicles or direct RDC solicitations, which may emerge as legacy tasking requirements resurface.

The purpose of this procurement is to obtain professional Integrated Design Testing and Evaluation (IDT & E) services to support Research & Development (R & D) efforts across all functional areas at the USCG Research & Development Center (RDC). Tasking may include IDT & E for any or all of the following RDC functional areas: Acquisition Support & Analysis, Aviation, C4ISR, Environment & Waterways, Surface, and Modeling & Simulation. Specific tasking within these functional areas will include test demonstrations, design and planning, data collection, data management, data analysis, test demonstration logistics and execution, and prototype design and fabrication.