Submarine Workforce and Industrial Base

The Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) in support of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions & Sustainment (OUSD A&S), Innovation Capability & Modernization (ICAM) Office anticipates issuing an open market Request for Proposal (RFP). The Government estimates the total value of this effort to be $2.5B for a five-year period of performance.

FEDSIM plans to solicit the Open Market using FAR Part 15 and 35 procedures. The purpose of this solicitation is to establish a multiple-year contract with an Enterprise Integration Partner (EIP) in support of the Submarine Workforce and Industrial Base (SWIB) Project. The overarching objectives will be: The EIP will work in close partnership with the ICAM office and the Navy to assess regional and national submarine industrial workforce deficiencies and strengths; identify, develop, and deliver solutions to address regional and broader submarine industrial workforce and industrial base challenges; initiate, manage, and integrate activities within regions and across regions; facilitate collaboration of stakeholder organizations and programs across government, industry and academia.  The EIP will need to perform these tasks within the following over-arching objectives:

• Workforce Development: Build and recruit adequate hiring pools for vendors and shipbuilders; train current and future trades; improve wrap-around support to increase student and worker retention
• Supplier Development: Add capability and/or capacity to existing suppliers, develop new suppliers to reduce single/sole-source risks for resiliency and robustness, improve first article quality
• Shipyard Infrastructure: Accelerate investments in shipbuilder facilities, footprint, machines/fixtures
• Strategic Outsourcing: Shift non-core workload away from two major shipbuilders to free up footprint, resources, and focus for shipbuilder-only work.
• Technology Opportunities: Implement additive manufacturing, non-destructive test imaging technology and other technology advancements to improve productivity and remove known production risk areas and bottlenecks

This is a synopsis. The availability of the full solicitation and all related documents is planned to be posted November 17, 2023, on Sam.gov. All Offerors shall be registered at the System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) to be eligible for award.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code is 541715 Research and Development, in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), the size standard is 1,000 employees.

Contracting Office:

Justin Zerbato, Contracting Officer
Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM)
1800 F Street NW Suite 3100
Washington, D.C. 20405