Presolicitation
SWRMC Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity-Multiple Award Contracts (IDIQ-MACs) for EM, CMAVs, and Short-Term CNO Avails on Surface Ships Homeported in San Diego, CA.
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryNAVSEA HQ (Navy), through the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Maritime (PAEM), plans to award multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contracts (IDIQ-MACs: several firms hold contracts and compete for orders) for maintenance, repair and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships homeported in San Diego, California, for the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC). Two groups are planned: MAC A (full and open) and MAC B (small business set-aside). Each contract has five one-year ordering periods, and bidders must hold or be able to obtain a Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) for the San Diego homeport. More in the summary
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NAVSEA HQ (Navy), through the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Maritime (PAEM), plans to award multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contracts (IDIQ-MACs: several firms hold contracts and compete for orders) for maintenance, repair and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships homeported in San Diego, California, for the Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC). Two groups are planned: MAC A (full and open) and MAC B (small business set-aside). Each contract has five one-year ordering periods, and bidders must hold or be able to obtain a Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) for the San Diego homeport.
Who can bid
- Hold, or be able to obtain, a Tier I, II or III Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) for the San Diego, CA homeport
- For MAC B, be a small business; MAC B is a small business set-aside (MAC A is full and open)
- Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
How to submit: The solicitation will be issued electronically on SAM.gov. What to include is under Full summary below. Check the solicitation's instructions on SAM.gov.
Things to watch (5)
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Serious: SAM.gov and the solicitation disagree on the set-aside. SAM.gov lists a set-aside for small businesses, but the solicitation the AI read says no set-aside. Ask the contracting officer which applies before you bid.
- Serious: Master Ship Repair Agreement required. A firm without an MSRA for San Diego, or a way to get one, cannot compete.
- Worth checking: MAC A needs immediate response capability. MAC A holders must be able to respond immediately to urgent critical technical requirements, which is hard for a small shop.
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- Worth checking: Only MAC B is a small business set-aside. MAC A is full and open, so small businesses there compete against larger firms, though contracting officers may restrict individual orders to small businesses.
- Minor: MAC B work may move to MAC A. If no one shows interest in a MAC B order, the work may be competed under MAC A, so MAC B volume is not guaranteed.
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Full summary
What they want
- Continuous Maintenance Availabilities (CMAVs): ongoing maintenance periods on ships
- Emergent Maintenance (EM): urgent unplanned repairs
- Short-term Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) availabilities, which are in MAC A
- Maintenance, repair and modernization of non-nuclear surface ships such as cruisers, destroyers, frigates, amphibious ships, littoral combat ships and mine countermeasures ships
- MAC A: work on critical systems, with capability and capacity to respond immediately to critical technical requirements
- MAC B: work on non-critical systems, including systems and equipment requiring work certification
- Contract type
- Multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contracts (IDIQ-MACs), in two groups: MAC A and MAC B
- Period of performance
- Each contract has five one-year ordering periods
- Place of performance
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- How they'll choose
- Awards based on the qualifications and capabilities of the contractor for each of the two categories; evaluation factors are not stated
- Offers due
- November 15, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- The solicitation will be issued electronically on SAM.gov
What to include when you submit
- Be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to take part
- Watch the SAM.gov page for the solicitation and any amendments
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself is forthcoming on SAM.gov; the real instructions, evaluation factors, due date, number of awards and contract ceilings are not in this notice.
- Estimated value and ordering ceiling are not stated.
- What the November 15, 2026 date on SAM.gov asks of a business is not stated.
- How small business size is judged for MAC B is not stated beyond the SAM.gov NAICS code.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Partly set aside for small businesses: part of the work is reserved for them, and the rest is open to any business. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 336611
- How to submit, from the AI summary: The solicitation will be issued electronically on SAM.gov. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- NAVSEA HQ, Washington Navy Yard, DC
- Product/service code
- J999 · Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (WEST)
- Business type
- Aircraft, ship & vehicle parts (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 336611)
- Related notices
Other notices that name this solicitation, or that this one names.
- SWRMC Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity-Multiple Award Contracts (IDIQ-MACs) for EM, CMAVs, and Short-Term CNO Avails on Surface Ships Homeported in San Diego, CA - Consolidation D&F. · N6117727R5000-43182Posted later Oct 15, 2026 · Due Nov 15, 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 read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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