Technical Services for Airborne Communications and Networking

Added: Apr 30, 2015 7:10 pm The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP) No. N66001-15-R-0036 to obtain technical services for airborne communications and networking. The SSC Pacific Air and Sensor Net-centric Integration (Code 55150) provides technical and programmatic support for Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Systems, Airborne, Ashore and Afloat, for Naval, Joint, Coalition and Federal projects and programs. Technical support is needed for engineering, technical and programmatic services for communication and networking systems, and associated certification and information assurance for new developments, current operations and planned upgrades.

A Draft Performance Work Statement is attached to this synopsis.

The proposed requirement will be solicited under a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) set-aside with multiple awards anticipated. The contractor(s) will be selected based on best value to the Government in terms of both technical capability and price/cost reasonableness. The SSC Pacific Small Business Office (SBO) concurred with the acquisition strategy decision in August 2013.

SSC Pacific intends on awarding multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) type contracts. The prospective contracts will have a three year base period with a two-year option period. The estimated level-of-effort for the total requirement is 173,000 labor hours. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541512 with a size standard of $25.5 million.

The solicitation and any amendments will only be available electronically on the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command E-Commerce Web Page at https://e- commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil/, under SSC Pacific - Open Solicitations. Matters posted on the web site are not terms of the solicitation unless the solicitation is written or amended to include such matters. It is estimated that the solicitation will be released in May of 2015 with responses due 30 days thereafter. FIRMS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE E-COMMERCE WEB SITE REGULARLY FOR UPDATED INFORMATION.

Market research for this procurement was completed in August 2013 and revalidated in August 2014.

The incumbent contractor is Solute Consulting, Inc., which previously provided support under contract number N66001-08-D-0093.