ESD redacted FINAL.pdf

This is a Justification and Approval (J&A) document for use of other than full and open competition for a bridge contract award.

The Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command (MSC), Prepositioning and Seabasing Program Office PM3/N105A seeks to award a bridge contract for Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of government-owned Expeditionary Transfer Dock (ESD) vessels on an other-than-full-and-open-competition basis to the incumbent contractor, Ocean Ships, Inc. (OSI). The original contract (N3220519C3003) was competitively procured and awarded to OSI on January 28, 2019. The current bridge contract (N3220524C4127) consists of a one-year firm period and a 6-month option beginning November 2, 2025, concluding May 1, 2026. The requested follow-on bridge contract will run for 12 months from May 2, 2026 through May 1, 2027, providing time to award a follow-on contract and conduct adequate turnover. The contract will be awarded as a firm-fixed-price arrangement with separately estimated pass-through expenses. The document notes that awarding to a non-incumbent contractor would result in substantial duplication of costs due to parallel mobilization, security clearances, staff onboarding, and NRL experiment integration, with transition costs estimated at a redacted amount based on a six-month operational turnover period. The justification emphasizes that service continuity is critical to NRL's national security mission and that insufficient time exists to conduct competition before a lapse in service would occur.