Engineering services related to the Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) program.

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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport intends to issue an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratories Inc. (CSDL), pursuant to the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), Only One Responsible Source. This contract is a follow-on to existing contract N66604-07-0113 with Draper Labs for R&D services related to the Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) program, and will be issued on a sole-source basis since CSDL is the only responsible source with the unique AUV expertise required for successful performance of this procurement. The contract will include Cost Plus Fixed-Fee provisions with an estimated Level of Effort of (70,600) hours. The contract Statement of Work requires engineering services including the following: systems engineering analysis and assessment of AUV development programs, development and prototyping for AUV capability expansion, and risk reduction and mitigation analysis for AUV projects. The period of performance will be for five years. See numbered note 22.

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