Solicitation
RFP for Advanced Signatures Technologies (AST)
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryOnly holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) that are small businesses can bid on this task order for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD). The Navy wants software work for Navy systems afloat and ashore, on a five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee task order. The response due date is November 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern (an amendment moved it to Nov 16, 2026, 1:00 PM EST), and offers go in through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. More in the summary
A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 26, 2026. It moves the due date from Nov 2, 2026 to Nov 16, 2026, which is the date shown on this page. See the latest version.
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Summary of the version posted Oct 21, 2026. The notice was amended Oct 26, 2026. The due date moved from Nov 2, 2026 to Nov 16, 2026. Check what else changed on SAM.gov. Some details are in the notice's attachments, which this summary didn't read. Check the attachments on SAM.gov.
Only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) that are small businesses can bid on this task order for Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD). The Navy wants software work for Navy systems afloat and ashore, on a five-year cost-plus-fixed-fee task order. The response due date is November 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern, and offers go in through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module.
Who can bid
- Limited competition: only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract can bid, not every business that meets the set-aside.
- Hold a SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) and be a small business under this total small business set-aside
- A PIEE account to receive the solicitation and submit the proposal
How to submit: PIEE Solicitation Module (the Navy has moved SeaPort-NxG offers there from the legacy SeaPort portal), due November 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (4)
- Serious: Only SeaPort-NxG MAC holders may bid. A small business without this multiple-award contract can't compete, and the Navy says other offers won't be considered.
- Worth checking: Key attachments must be requested by email. Attachments 02, 03 and 04 aren't posted, so contact the Navy early to get them before pricing.
- Worth checking: PIEE account needed to receive the solicitation. Without a PIEE account you can't get the solicitation or submit an offer.
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- Minor: Cost-type contract. Cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing means the Government pays allowed costs, so your accounting and cost records matter.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Advance software standards and technologies for data processing, storage, simulation/generation and visualization
- Develop new software capabilities for Navy systems afloat and ashore
- Work under a level-of-effort (LOE) task order, where the Navy pays for hours of work, with cost-only line items for incidental materials and travel
- Contract type
- Task order under SeaPort-NxG with cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF: the Government pays allowed costs plus a set fee) level-of-effort contract line item numbers (CLINs, priced lines of the order), plus cost-only other direct cost (ODC) CLINs
- Period of performance
- Five years: one-year base period plus four one-year option periods
- Place of performance
- MD, as listed on SAM.gov; the text doesn't give a location
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Contract vehicle
- SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC); MAC holders only, total small business set-aside
- Offers due
- November 2, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern (from the version posted Oct 21, 2026; amended since)
- How to submit
- PIEE Solicitation Module (the Navy has moved SeaPort-NxG offers there from the legacy SeaPort portal)
What to include when you submit
- Register for a Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) account to receive the solicitation and submit your proposal
- Request Attachments 02, 03 and 04 by email, since they are not posted
- Proposals from firms that don't hold a SeaPort-NxG MAC will not be evaluated
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation, statement of work, evaluation factors and proposal instructions are on the PIEE Solicitation Module, not in this text.
- Attachments 02, 03 and 04 must be requested by email; the email address isn't in the text.
- Place of performance, security requirements, and the task order's value aren't stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. The notice also names requirements: More open small business set-asides under NAICS 541330
- Limited competition: only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract can bid, not every business that meets the set-aside.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: PIEE Solicitation Module (the Navy has moved SeaPort-NxG offers there from the legacy SeaPort portal). Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Architect-engineer services tied to buildings or construction are usually bought under the Brooks Act: the agency ranks firms on qualifications from an SF 330 first, then negotiates a price with the top firm. How A/E contracts work.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- NSWC Carderock, Bethesda, MD
- Product/service code
- AC13 · National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense – Military; Experimental Development
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- Versions
5 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 26, 2026 · Amendment 0004Due Nov 16, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 26, 2026 · Amendment 0003Due Nov 2, 2026
- Oct 21, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 2, 2026
- Oct 7, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Nov 2, 2026
- Sep 29, 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.
Before you respond
- How to respond to a solicitation (8 steps)
- How to read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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