Sources Sought
Ngats Software Support
Department of Defense · Department of the Army
AI summaryThe Army Contracting Command at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, is doing market research (a sources sought notice, not a request for offers) to find firms that can provide software support for the Next Generation Automated Test System (NGATS). NGATS is used to test and find faults in parts of electrical weapon systems. Capability responses are due by the response due date of November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern, by email. More in the summary
Market research, not a bid. Replying is free and tells Department of the Army who could do this work. Send a short reply to the contracting contact; no price is needed. See the contact
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The Army Contracting Command at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, is doing market research (a sources sought notice, not a request for offers) to find firms that can provide software support for the Next Generation Automated Test System (NGATS). NGATS is used to test and find faults in parts of electrical weapon systems. Capability responses are due by the response due date of November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern, by email.
Who can bid
- Active registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) for firms that respond
How to submit: Email to Contract Specialist Mark Bobitka at mark.t.bobitka.civ@army.mil. 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.
- Worth checking: Vendor familiar with the full NGATS software baseline wanted. The Army says it requires a vendor that already knows the complete NGATS software, which favors firms with prior NGATS experience.
- Worth checking: Small business prime must perform 50% of the work. The notice asks each respondent to explain how it would perform at least half the work itself, in terms of the cost of performance.
- Minor: Sources sought notice, not a request for offers. Responses are not offers and the Government is not required to award a contract, so this notice only helps the Government decide how to buy.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Provide NGATS system software support: recurring software updates, performance enhancements and technical support for the baseline NGATS software
- Develop the Common Operator Test Environment for use with the latest "Visual Studio" code
- Maintain the current cybersecurity posture of the NGATS software
- Deliver software at least quarterly and send monthly status updates
- Contract type
- Firm-fixed-price (FFP): one set price, whatever the work ends up costing (anticipated)
- Period of performance
- Estimated 12 months
- Place of performance
- Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, USA
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM Eastern
- How to submit
- Email to Contract Specialist Mark Bobitka at mark.t.bobitka.civ@army.mil
- Page limits
- Capability response: 10 pages (8.5 x 11 inch, font no smaller than 10 point), not counting drawings and sample test reports
What to include when you submit
- Send the response as a Microsoft Word file or a PDF.
- Put the sources sought number W15QKN-27-R-1CQD in the email subject line and on all enclosed documents.
- Give your organization's name, address, CAGE code (commercial and government entity code), SAM Unique Entity ID, points of contact with emails, website, telephone number and type of ownership.
- State whether you are registered as a Large, Small, Small Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, HUBZone, or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern.
- Include a tailored capability statement with documentation that supports your claims of organizational and staff capability, showing how your firm (with any similarly situated subcontractors if you are a small business) can meet the requirements.
- List any existing Government contracts, such as General Services Administration, Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions, or NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurements, that could be used for this requirement.
- If significant subcontracting or teaming is expected, describe the administrative and management structure of those arrangements.
- Explain your company's ability to perform at least 50% of the work yourself in terms of the cost of performance, as FAR 52.219-14 requires of a small business prime under a small business set-aside.
- Make no phone calls; they will not be accepted. Mark proprietary data as such.
Current contractor
No incumbent is named. The support was previously provided under Contract No. W15QKN-18-D-0073, Task Order W15QKN-22-F-0286.
Not in the notice text
- The estimated value is not stated.
- Whether a small business set-aside is planned is not stated; SAM.gov shows no set-aside used.
- The scope of the previous effort is described as provided for information; the notice text does not include it.
- How the Government will use responses to choose a buying method is not stated.
Eligibility and how to respond
- No set-aside. Any business can reply: this is market research, and no bid is being taken yet.
- To respond, send a short reply to the contracting contact near the top of this page. No price is needed.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 22, 2026
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Office
- W6QK ACC-Ri-Picatinny, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
- Product/service code
- R425 · Support – Professional: Engineering/Technical
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 541330)
- 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
Terms on this notice: Sources sought notice