Solicitation
RFP for Advanced Signatures Technologies (AST)
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy · Sol. N0016726R3104
Due in 29 daysSmall business
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The Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, wants engineering and software services, from data processing, storage, simulation and visualization standards to new software capabilities for Navy systems afloat and ashore. It will be a task order under the SeaPort-NxG contract, set aside for small businesses, with a five-year period (one base year plus four option years).
Watch out for
- Limited to SeaPort-NxG holders. If your company is not already on SeaPort-NxG, you cannot bid on this task order.
The task order (TO) will be awarded under the SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC)
- Key documents only by email request. You must email to get three attachments, so ask early to leave time to read them.
Please note that Attachments 02, 03, and 04 must be requested via email.
- Cost-reimbursement pricing. Cost-plus-fixed-fee and level-of-effort pricing is more involved than fixed-price and usually means cost data and an adequate accounting setup.
will include Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), level-of-effort (LOE) contract line item numbers (CLINs)
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Full brief
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 incidental materials and travel (priced as cost-only ODC lines)
- Contract type
- Task order with Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), level-of-effort CLINs, plus cost-only other direct cost (ODC) CLINs
- Period of performance
- 5 years: 1 base year + 4 one-year option periods
- Contract vehicle
- SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC)
- Offers due
- 2026-11-02T01:00:00-05:00
What to include when you submit
- Attachments 02, 03 and 04 must be requested by email
You must have
- Must hold a SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract to receive the task order
The task order (TO) will be awarded under the SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC)
- Small business (total set-aside)
The Government is soliciting this requirement as a total small-business set-aside.
Not in the notice text
- How the award will be decided and the evaluation factors
- How and where to submit the proposal, and any page limits or format rules
- Place of performance
- Estimated value or level of effort
- Statement of work details, which are likely in the attachments
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Key facts
- Response due
- Nov 2, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC
- Posted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- N0016726R3104
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy
- Office
- NSWC Carderock
- Set-aside
- Small Business Set Aside - Total
- NAICS
- 541330
- Product/service code
- AC13
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Place of performance
- 20817
- Contracting contact
- Alexander Lambisalexander.c.lambis.civ@us.navy.mil2405193430
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), is soliciting services ranging from advancements in software standards and technologies for data processing, storage, simulation/generation, and visualization to the development of new software capabilities for Navy systems afloat and ashore.The Government is soliciting this requirement as a total small-business set-aside. The task order (TO) will be awarded under the SeaPort-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC) and will include Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), level-of-effort (LOE) contract line item numbers (CLINs), as well as cost-only other direct cost (ODC) CLINs for incidental materials and travel.The task order will have a five-year period of performance, consisting of a one-year base period and four one-year option periods. Please note that Attachments 02, 03, and 04 must be requested via email.
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