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) can bid on this total small business set-aside task order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD). The Navy wants software standards, technology and new software capabilities for Navy systems afloat and ashore, over a one-year base plus four one-year options. Proposals go through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module; the response due date is November 16, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern. 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A newer version of this notice was posted Oct 26, 2026.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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Only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) can bid on this total small business set-aside task order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD). The Navy wants software standards, technology and new software capabilities for Navy systems afloat and ashore, over a one-year base plus four one-year options. Proposals go through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module; the response due date is November 16, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid (4)
- 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); proposals from non-holders will not be evaluated
- Be a small business; the order is a total small business set-aside
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- Have a PIEE account to receive the solicitation and submit a proposal
How to submit: Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 26, 2026.
- Serious: Only SeaPort-NxG contract holders can bid. Businesses that do not already hold a SeaPort-NxG MAC cannot win this task order.
- Worth checking: PIEE registration needed to receive and submit. The Navy moved from the older SeaPort portal to the PIEE Solicitation Module, so MAC holders must register before they can get the solicitation or submit.
- Worth checking: Three attachments must be requested by email. Attachments 02, 03 and 04 are not posted openly, and the notice text gives no email address for the request.
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
- Provide level-of-effort (LOE) labor under cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) contract line item numbers (CLINs), where the Government pays your costs plus a set fee
- Provide incidental materials and travel under cost-only other direct cost (ODC) CLINs
- Contract type
- Task order with cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) level-of-effort CLINs and cost-only other direct cost CLINs
- Period of performance
- 5 years: a one-year base period plus four one-year option periods
- Place of performance
- MD (as listed on SAM.gov; no city given)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Contract vehicle
- SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC)
- Offers due
- November 16, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module
What to include when you submit
- Register for a PIEE account to receive the solicitation and submit your proposal
- Request Attachments 02, 03, and 04 by email; the notice text does not give the address
Not in the notice text
- The evaluation factors, proposal instructions and page limits are not in the notice text; the solicitation is received through the PIEE Solicitation Module
- Attachments 02, 03 and 04 must be requested by email; the contact address is not given
- The estimated value is not stated
- The city of performance is not stated beyond MD
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: Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. 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 26, 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 0003 (this version)Due Nov 2, 2026
- Oct 21, 2026 · Amendment 0002Due 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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