Information Technology and Engineering/R&D Technical Support

This is a presolicitation notice in accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2

Marine Meteorology Division (MMD), located at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Monterey, CA, requires the professional Information Technology (IT) and Engineering Technical Support and System Administration services to support a broadly based multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technological development directed toward environment information superiority for the Navy/Marine Corps and DoD.

NRL MMD utilizes a variety of IT resources such as computers, storage, and network hardware and software systems to support and meet its diverse research goals. Many research projects require and acquire dedicated project IT resources, and the Division provides the enterprise level local area network, Internet access, email, printing, administrative and financial software applications, high performance computer (HPC) systems, storage, and backup and recovery infrastructure that meets the majority of user needs, in addition to hosting and servicing the dedicated project resources. Under this requirement, the contractor shall provide the following tasks in a highly complex R&D environment:

• System Administration and User Support
• Network Administration
• Information Assurance
• Research & Development Support
• Program Management

NRL intends to negotiate an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract utilizing the procedures of FAR Part 12 and 15, and as a total Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses Set-Aside. The resulting first Task Order from the IDIQ contract will be Time & Materials (T&M) contract.

The anticipated solicitation release date is 16 May 2022.