Solicitation
Global Positioning System Based Range Instrumentation Equipment (GPS-BRIE)
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryThe Naval Air Warfare Center, for its Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in China Lake, CA, asks for proposals on Global Positioning System Based Range Instrumentation Equipment (GPS-BRIE). It plans one indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: the Navy orders work as needed) contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF: the Government pays your allowable costs plus a set fee), cost and firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) lines. SAM.gov lists the response due date as November 16, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific (an amendment moved it to Nov 30, 2026, 12:00 PM PST · 3:00 PM Eastern); the main solicitation documents and controlled files were not read. More in the summary
AI summary Beta
Summary of the version posted Oct 15, 2026. The notice was amended Nov 12, 2026. The due date moved from Nov 16, 2026 to Nov 30, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. This summary may miss requirements: 4 of 7 attachments weren't read (L-6 CLIN 0003 Labor Pricing Spreadsheet.xlsx, L-3 Past Performance Contract Data.xlsx and 2 more). Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
The Naval Air Warfare Center, for its Weapons Division (NAWCWD) in China Lake, CA, asks for proposals on Global Positioning System Based Range Instrumentation Equipment (GPS-BRIE). It plans one indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: the Navy orders work as needed) contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF: the Government pays your allowable costs plus a set fee), cost and firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price) lines. SAM.gov lists the response due date as November 16, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific; the main solicitation documents and controlled files were not read.
Who can bid
- Access to the controlled technical data: distribution of the data list is limited to the Department of Defense and U.S. DoD contractors, and the controlled attachments must be requested on SAM.gov
How to submit: due November 16, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (6)
- Serious: Controlled attachments need an access request. The controlled files are in a zip you must request access to on SAM.gov, and the data list limits distribution to the Department of Defense and its contractors, so a business outside that group may not see requirements.
- Serious: Main solicitation documents were not read. The instructions to bidders, evaluation criteria, statement of work and pricing schedule are not in the text read, so due-date rules, page limits and how to submit are unconfirmed.
- Worth checking: Mix of cost-reimbursement and fixed-price lines. The contract combines CPFF, Cost and FFP lines, so you may need to price labor and costs, not just one fixed price.
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- Worth checking: Heavy documentation and software deliverables. The data list has 36 items, including software plans, specifications, test reports and configuration management, which takes engineering and writing staff.
- Worth checking: Past performance questionnaires returned within 2 weeks. Your references must send completed questionnaires to the Navy within 2 weeks of receiving them, so they need to be asked early.
- Minor: Operations Security rules apply to critical information. Critical information may not be discussed on non-secure phones or shared without need-to-know, and the attached annex is marked FOUO (For Official Use Only).
Read from the notice and 3 attachments. 4 of 7 not read. Show which files.
- Exhibit A - Contract Data Requirements List.pdf (read)
- Attachment 3 - OPSEC and Critical Info Annex.pdf (read)
- L-2 Past Perf Questionnaire PPQ.docx (read)
- L-6 CLIN 0003 Labor Pricing Spreadsheet.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- L-3 Past Performance Contract Data.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- L-1 Executive Summary Tables.xlsx: not read (the AI doesn't read this file type yet): open it on SAM.gov
- CUI Attachments N6893627R0002.zip: not read (access is restricted): request it on SAM.gov
Full summary
What they want
- Supply GPS-based range instrumentation equipment under one IDIQ contract; the equipment details are in documents that were not read
- Support the Tri-Service GPS Sustainment Management Office at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (requiring office code DB46200)
- Write software and engineering documents: software development plan, requirements and design specifications, test plan and report, user manual, version description
- Manage configuration: configuration management plan, change proposals, variance requests, status accounting
- Plan and support installs: site preparation and installation requirements, training materials, acceptance test plan and report
- Deliver a technical data package, a certification data report and a systems engineering management plan
- Report on management: management plan, risk plan, progress and status reports, meeting agendas, government property inventory, failure analysis reports
- Write an Operations Security (OPSEC) plan and protect critical information; the data list has 36 data items in all
- Contract type
- Single-award IDIQ with a mix of CPFF, Cost, and FFP contract line items
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 16, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific (from the version posted Oct 15, 2026; amended since)
What they'll judge offers on
- Past Performance (Section L, Volume 2): written questionnaires from people who know your work rate technical, schedule, cost and management performance
What to include when you submit
- Past performance questionnaire (Section L, Volume 2): the person rating your work returns it within 2 weeks of receiving it to the Contract Specialist at joanna.m.capazzi.civ@us.navy.mil, with a copy to Procuring Contracting Officer Chris Bigelow at christopher.n.bigelow.civ@us.navy.mil
- Request access to the controlled attachments (CUI Attachments N6893627R0002.zip) on SAM.gov
After award, you must have
- Handle critical information under the Navy's Operations Security rules; unencrypted transmission of critical information over an unclassified network is not allowed From Attachment 3 - OPSEC and Critical Info Annex.pdf:
…may be transmitted over an unclassified network so long as it is encrypted.
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The sources sought for this solicitation was posted on October 28, 2025 under Notice ID N6893626R0008; its response counts and capable-firm findings are not in the documents read.
Not in the notice text
- The main solicitation (instructions to bidders, evaluation criteria, statement of work, contract line items and prices) was not among the files read; find it on SAM.gov or ask the contracting office
- Attached but not read: L-6 CLIN 0003 Labor Pricing Spreadsheet.xlsx, L-3 Past Performance Contract Data.xlsx and L-1 Executive Summary Tables.xlsx
- The CUI Attachments N6893627R0002.zip are controlled; access must be requested on SAM.gov
- The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov, and the documents read don't give one
- How and where to send the proposal, any page limits and the evaluation method
- The length of the contract, the number of orders and the contract's ceiling or value
- The place of performance; SAM.gov leaves it blank
- Whether a facility security clearance is needed; the attached annex belongs to a DD Form 254 (the Government's security requirements form)
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside: any business, large or small, can bid unless the notice says otherwise.
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
Notice details
- Posted
- Nov 12, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA
- Product/service code
- 5865 · Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-Countermeasures and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment
- Business type
- Electronic parts & equipment (supplies) (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 334511)
- Versions
4 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Nov 12, 2026 · Amendment 0003 (this version)Due Nov 30, 2026 (changed)
- Nov 9, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 16, 2026
- Oct 15, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 16, 2026
- Related notices
Other notices that name this solicitation, or that this one names.
- Global Positioning System Based Range Instrumentation Equipment (GPS-BRIE) · N6893626R5008Posted earlier Oct 15, 2026 · Due Apr 13, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
Before you respond
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- How to price a government contract
Terms on this notice: Solicitation
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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