Solicitation
PMA CSS Competition PMA 261
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryOnly service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB: small firms owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities) can bid, and the prime must hold a Top Secret facility clearance. The Navy's PMA-261 office, which manages the H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters, wants program management, budget and administrative support for its integrated product teams (solicitation N0042126R1033). The response due date is November 12, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern. More in the summary
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Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB: small firms owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities) can bid, and the prime must hold a Top Secret facility clearance. The Navy's PMA-261 office, which manages the H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters, wants program management, budget and administrative support for its integrated product teams (solicitation N0042126R1033). The response due date is November 12, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern.
Who can bid
- Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB): the notice is an SDVOSB set-aside
- A Facility Security Clearance (FCL) at the Top Secret level, held by the prime offeror itself
- Staff with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) access for the tasks
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 22, 2026.
- Serious: Set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. Only SDVOSB firms can bid; a business without that status is not eligible.
- Serious: Top Secret facility clearance required of the prime. The prime itself must hold a Top Secret facility clearance, so a subcontractor's clearance cannot fill this requirement.
- Serious: TS/SCI access needed for the work. Work on this program needs people with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information access, which takes cleared staff.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Program and project management support for PMA-261 integrated product teams (IPTs)
- Administrative support
- Budget and financial management support
- Corporate operations support
- Help the teams plan, execute and manage their programs so capabilities are delivered on time and within budget
- Use Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) access for routine work; no TS/SCI deliverables are required
- Place of performance
- MD
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 12, 2026, 5:00 PM Eastern
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation documents (full statement of work, evaluation factors, submission instructions, contract type, length and pricing) aren't in the posted text.
- How many staff need TS/SCI access, and where in Maryland the work is done, aren't stated.
- Whether a posted amendment changed anything isn't described; the SAM.gov record shows 3 versions.
Eligibility and how to respond
- Only service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) certified through SBA's VetCert can bid as the prime contractor. The notice also names requirements: Not certified through VetCert yet? Apply on VetCert (SBA), or start with the SDVOSB guide. More open service-disabled veteran-owned set-asides under NAICS 541330
- You must hold a facility security clearance (FCL) at TOP SECRET.
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
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Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Office
- Naval Air Warfare Center Air Div, Patuxent River, MD
- Product/service code
- R408 · Support – Professional: Program Management/Support
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- Versions
3 versions have been posted, newest first.
- Oct 22, 2026 · Amendment 0002 (this version)Due Nov 12, 2026 (changed)
- Oct 15, 2026 · Amendment 0001Due Oct 28, 2026 (changed)
- Sep 15, 2026 · SolicitationDue Oct 23, 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
- Open SDVOSB set-aside contracts
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, SDVOSB (service-disabled veteran-owned small business), Set-aside