Sources Sought Synposis for ATD ASW Engineering Services Recompete.pdf

SOURCES SOUGHT FOR

THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AIRBORNE

ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE ENGINEERING SERVICES REQUIREMENT

for NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION (NAWCAD)

INTRODUCTION

The NAWCAD Digital, Analytics, Infrastructure and Technology Advancement (DAiTA) Group’s Advanced Technology Development Department (AD2) Airborne Anti-submarine Warfare (ASW) Systems Engineering Division (AD21000) in collaboration with the Mission Systems Group Departments and Divisions has a requirement to augment the Government team across all functional areas, e.g., administrative, business, engineering, information technology, logistics, and program management, and all life cycle phases necessary to ensure continuity of services in support of legacy and new mission avionics, sensors, subsystems, and systems for naval air platforms and to improve existing mission systems. The scope will include engineering, management, and technical labor, materials for technology assessment and development, fabrication, laboratory and field experiments, ship and air exercises, test, installation, system integration, maintenance, aircrew training, fleet assistance/training, procurement activities and environmental compliance documentation. The support augmentation includes technology areas such as Airborne ASW acoustic and non-acoustic systems, Airborne Information Processing, Communication, Flight, Navigation, Identification, Recording, Airborne Mine Counter Measures, Radar and Antenna, Electro Optic (EO) and Infrared, and Electronic Warfare (EW). Applications include acoustic ASW Special Mission Sensors, Imagery and Video Systems Software Enhancements, Integration and Interoperability/Integrated Warfare Capabilities, system and application prototyping, active and passive display enhancements, Information Assurance (IA) and Anti-Tampering (AT) and Cybersecurity (Cyber) concepts and techniques and analysis to predict the performance of the associated mission systems. This requirement is a follow on to existing contract N00421-20-D-0123.

Additionally, the Government is considering consolidating the requirements of contract N00421- 20-D-0123 and PMA-264 contract N68335-20-F-3001.

This Market Research tool is being used to identify potential and eligible firms, of all sizes, prior to determining the method of acquisition and issuance of a solicitation. The results of the Sources Sought will be utilized to determine if any Small Business Set-Aside opportunities exist and help define the final acquisition strategy. Additionally, this sources sought is being used to gather constructive information from industry to improve the Request for Proposal (RFP).

PLACES OF PERFORMANCE

An estimated 90 percent of the total work will be performed at the Government site and 10 percent at the Contractor site. The principal places of performance for Government site are Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD and NAWCAD Detachment Crane Indiana. Temporary performance may be required at other Government and Contractor sites via travel as defined in Attachment 1 DRAFT Statement of Work Section 3.1.5.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND

SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT.

RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER

NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF

RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY

RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

ANTICIPATED CONTRACT INFORMATION

1. Current Contractor and Contracts:

Follow-on re-compete to Contract N00421-20-D-0123

AVIATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC (ASEC)

21801 N SHANGRI LA DR STE F LEXINGTON PARK MD 20653-5501

Current Level of Effort: 880,992 Current Total Ceiling Value: $94,875,560.20

Contract N68335-20-F-3001

EAGLE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

22560 EPIC DRIVE

CALIFORNIA, MD 20619

Current Level of Effort: 240,000 Current Total Ceiling Value: $22,137,420.65

2. Anticipated Contract Type: Single Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract (SAIDIQ)

3. Anticipated Level of Effort: 3,581,280 hours

4. Estimated Material / Other Direct Costs: $7.9M per year

5. Estimated Travel: $2.1M per year

6. Anticipated Period of Performance Start: 4th QTR FY26

7. Security Classification:

a. Facility Clearance Level: TOP SECRET//Sensitive Compartmented Information

(SCI)

b. Safeguarding at the Contractor Facility: TOP SECRET//Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)

CAPABILITIES NOTES:

• This contract requires the Contractor to demonstrate past performance performing equal requirements those defined in the DRAFT Statement of Work including both the provisioning of services and the ability to develop and deliver hardware and software systems to perform the aircraft system test activities. Address the most recent and relevant information to the specific work identified in the DRAFT Statement of Work.

• This contract requires the Contractor to provide highly qualified technical and engineering staff with the capabilities to support the activities defined by the Attached

DRAFT SOW.

• The Offeror shall possess an adequate accounting system in accordance with DFARS clause 252.242-7006.

• The Offeror shall possess an adequate purchasing system in accordance with DFARS 252.244-7001.

• The Offeror shall have the capability to perform at the TOP SECRET / Sensitive Compartmented Information level and Contractor Safeguarding capability of TOP

SECRET / SCI.

ELIGIBILITY

The Government is considering the following North American Industry Classification (NAICS) code for this requirement: 541330 Exception 1 – Engineering Services: Military and Aerospace Equipment and Military Weapons.

The anticipated Product Service Code (PSC) is R425 - Support- Professional:

Engineering/Technical.

All businesses, regardless of size, are eligible to reply to this request.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Interested businesses shall utilize the response template provided in Attachment 3, Sources Sought Response, in either MS Word or PDF format in single space 12-point font.

The capability statement package submissions must be received no later than 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on 17 MAR 2025. Submissions shall be submitted via e-mail to the Contract Specialist, Courtney Burgos, at courtney.l.burgos.civ@us.navy.mil. Companies are reminded that file sizes in excess of 5MB or .zip extension may be stripped from email submissions due to Navy Marine Corp Intranet security. No phone calls will be accepted.