Solicitation
Weapons Effect Solicitation
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryOnly holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) can bid on this solicitation for scientific and technical services on underwater and air explosion effects on Navy ships, for the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock in Bethesda, MD. Offers go through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. The response due date is November 24, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern. More in the summary
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Only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC) can bid on this solicitation for scientific and technical services on underwater and air explosion effects on Navy ships, for the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock in Bethesda, MD. Offers go through the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Solicitation Module. The response due date is November 24, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern.
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); offers from non-holders will not be evaluated
- Have a PIEE account to receive the solicitation and submit the offer
How to submit: 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 22, 2026.
- Serious: Only SeaPort-NxG MAC holders can bid. Offers from firms without a SeaPort-NxG MAC will not be evaluated.
- Worth checking: Offers and documents are on PIEE, not SAM.gov. The solicitation documents and offer submission are in the PIEE Solicitation Module, which needs an account.
- Minor: Questions were due Oct 21, 2026. Check the amendments for the agency's answers.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Scientific and technical services with experts in UNDEX and AIREX (underwater and air explosion) analysis of undersea and surface vessels
- Develop and use specialized software codes to help select live fire events and support live fire test and evaluation programs
- Simulate the underwater shock environment from a far field or near miss location
- Simulate how Navy platforms respond to UNDEX and AIREX attacks, including far field, near miss, contact and internally detonating weapons
- Check the integrity of computational models, and solve finite element models of elastic-plastic response with reduced order engineering tools
- Simulate a nuclear underwater shock or nuclear air blast environment from a far field location
- Place of performance
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Contract vehicle
- SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract (MAC), unrestricted; MAC holders only
- Offers due
- November 24, 2026, 10:00 AM Eastern
- How to submit
- PIEE Solicitation Module
What to include when you submit
- Register for a PIEE account to receive the solicitation and submit your offer
- Send questions through the PIEE Solicitation Module Question and Answer function, not by email; answers are posted there
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The notice says it is related to Notice IDs N00167-25-RFP-CD-66-0014 and N00167-25-RFP-CD-66-0014_Rev1.
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation documents are in the PIEE Solicitation Module and were not read, so the evaluation factors, period of performance, pricing format and submission instructions are not known
- The deadline for questions is not stated in the notice text
- The contract type and any estimated value
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside, but the notice names requirements you must meet before you can bid:
- Limited competition: only holders of the Navy's SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract can bid.
- How to submit, from the AI summary: PIEE Solicitation Module. Check it in the notice before you send anything.
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Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- NSWC Carderock, Bethesda, MD
- Product/service code
- R425 · Support – Professional: Engineering/Technical
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · Amendment 0001 (this version)Due Nov 24, 2026
- Oct 21, 2026 · AmendmentDue Nov 24, 2026
- Oct 16, 2026 · SolicitationDue Nov 24, 2026
- Attachments
Past awards and competition
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