NTCDL - Stand Alone Engineering Support Services Contract
Past Recompete Updated
- Agency
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Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Department of Defense
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $50,000,000 to $100,000,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Incumbent contract
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- N0003916C0087 Federal contract award held by BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. Ends Sep 29, 2028 · Value with all options $309,287,636
- Previous solicitation
- Sole Source Modification Award for the Network Tactical Common Data Link (NTCDL) Program Limited / Sole Source Justification · N00039-23-R-2005 · Posted Nov 13, 2024
- Anticipated award
- Through
- Acquisition strategy
- Follow-on to Existing Contract
- NAICS code
- 541330 Engineering Services
- Place of performance
- San Diego, CA
- Forecast number
- N00039-26-RFPREQ-PMW/A-170-0240
Forecast details come from the Navy's Long Range Acquisition Estimates. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The Department of the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) is conducting a recompete for the NTCDL Stand Alone Engineering Support Services Contract, with an estimated solicitation release on October 1, 2026, and estimated award on April 1, 2027. The contract procures engineering support services (ESS) and spares for Navy Common Data Link (CDL) systems across multiple platforms, including maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of fielded NTCDL systems; Casualty Report and ship visit support; software and cyber updates; obsolescence remediation; hardware and software design and development; and installation and System Operational Verification Test support for new NTCDL systems that enable transmit/receive of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance data in support of Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination activities.
The estimated award value ranges from $50 million to $100 million under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with cost-reimbursement pricing and a 60-month period of performance. Place of performance is San Diego, California. The procurement is unrestricted (no set-aside), using a sole-source method, and requires Secret-level facility and personnel clearances. NAVWAR (contracting office N00039) is procuring on behalf of Program Manager Warfare/Advanced (PMW/A-170).
The incumbent contract is a definitive cost-plus-incentive agreement, N0003916C0087, awarded to BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc. on September 29, 2017, with a ceiling value of $309.3 million and performance through September 29, 2028. The existing contract fully funded TDL 26-004 installation and modernization efforts, TDL 25-007 spares, and extended the Low Rate Initial Production 6 delivery date, with place of performance in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Forecast text
NTCDL is the overarching solution for all United States Navy (USN) Common Data Link (CDL) requirements across multiple platforms. NTCDL provides transmit/receive capability of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) data in support of Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) activities.
The proposed contract action will include ESS and spares critical to maintaining fielded systems and supporting the installation of NTCDL systems. ESS efforts include maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing fielded NTCDL systems; providing Casualty Report (CASREP) and ship visit support; implementing software and cyber updates; addressing obsolescence issues; hardware and software design and development that benefit fielded and future systems and supporting installation, and System Operational Verification Test (SOVT) of new NTCDL systems.
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