Position, Navigation, and Timing Division Laboratory Support
*THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS*
The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP) No. N66001-18-R-0255 to obtain technical and engineering support for the Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Division (Code 55300). The SSC Pacific PNT Division Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) laboratories include the PNT engineering laboratories and the Global Positioning System (GPS) Central Engineering Activity (CEA), the United States Navy's premier navigation laboratory for GPS User Equipment (UE) and modernization RDT&E. The other laboratories falling under the PNT laboratory umbrella support a wide variety of services including analysis of emergent PNT concept development, other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) evaluations, inertial test and integration, antenna test and analysis, performance testing and analysis, prototype system development, security enhancements and validation, and additional PNT system engineering RDT&E functions.
A Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is attached to this synopsis.
The proposed requirement will be solicited under full and open competition, with a single award anticipated, reserved for a small business if one small business prime contractor is found to represent 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 on 21 December 2017.
SSC Pacific intends on awarding a single Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) type contract. The prospective contract will have a three year ordering period, with two additional two-year option periods. The estimated level-of- effort is 17,500 labor hours per year, for a total of 122,500 labor hours. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541715 with a size standard of 1,000 employees.
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 July of 2018 with responses due 30 days thereafter. FIRMS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE E-COMMERCE WEB SITE REGULARLY FOR UPDATED INFORMATION.
The market research survey for this procurement was published on E-Commerce and FBO.gov on 04 October 2017.
The incumbent contractor is Gnostech, contract N66001-13-D-0016.
*THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS*
Point of Contact - Eric Pomroy, Contract Specialist, 619-553-3428; Richard R Hammersmith, Contracting Officer, 619-553-4482
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