USNS BRASHEAR Immersion Heater

Military Sealift Command issued a Special Notice on July 30, 2026, announcing its intent to award a sole-source contract to Indeeco LLC for immersion heaters for the USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7), with a response deadline of August 5, 2026. The heaters provide heating and cooling to the jacket water system of the main diesel generators; Indeeco holds exclusive manufacturing and licensing rights as the original equipment manufacturer, and the equipment is not commercially available through other vendors. MSC justified the sole-source approach under FAR 12.102(a) based on Indeeco's restrictive intellectual property rights, exclusive distributor agreements through Integrated Procurement Technologies, standardization requirements to maintain fleet baseline configuration across MSC T-AKE vessels 1 through 14, and compatibility as a direct replacement part (model 326XS139978, NIIN TT0017043). The procurement covers two units and falls under NAICS 333414 (heating equipment manufacturing) and PSC 4520 (space and water heating equipment). The independent government estimate is redacted in the published justification memo.