Solicitation
Synthetic Signature Generation (SSG) Support Services
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryThe Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) in West Bethesda, MD wants scientific, engineering and technical support for Synthetic Signature Generation (SSG) simulation systems used in Navy fleet training (solicitation N0016726R1006). It will be one single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for three years, open to all businesses. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern. More in the summary
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The Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) in West Bethesda, MD wants scientific, engineering and technical support for Synthetic Signature Generation (SSG) simulation systems used in Navy fleet training (solicitation N0016726R1006). It will be one single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for three years, open to all businesses. The response due date is November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 28, 2026.
- Worth checking: Full and open competition. There's no small business set-aside, so you'd compete against large defense engineering firms.
- Worth checking: Cost-plus contract. Cost-plus-fixed-fee line items mean billing actual costs, which usually takes a cost accounting setup many small firms don't have.
- Minor: Single award. Only one company gets the IDIQ, so there is no second place.
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Full summary
What they want
- Design, development, fabrication, integration, testing and fleet implementation of SSG-based simulation systems
- Installation and updates for five kinds of fleet trainers: Submarine Team, Navigation, Surface, Surveillance and On-Board
- Maintenance of fielded systems
- Technical engineering support to fleet onsite maintenance staff
- Support for tactical testing and analysis system setups for shared simulation and tactical subsystems
- Contract type
- Single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF: costs repaid plus a set fee) level-of-effort line items and cost-only line items for materials and travel
- Period of performance
- Three years: three one-year ordering periods
- Place of performance
- West Bethesda, MD
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 11:00 AM Eastern
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation's instructions, evaluation factors and statement of work aren't in the notice text; they're in the attached solicitation documents.
- How to submit and any page limits aren't stated.
- Estimated value or ceiling isn't stated.
- Security clearance requirements aren't stated.
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.
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Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 28, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- NSWC Carderock, Bethesda, MD
- Product/service code
- K020 · Modification of Equipment – Ship and Marine Equipment
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- Versions
2 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 28, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 9, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 28, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 2, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
Who has won work like this before, the likely incumbent, and what similar contracts paid, from USAspending.gov.
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