Global Positioning System Based Range Instrumentation Equipment (GPS-BRIE)

What they want

• Supply GPS-based range instrumentation equipment under one IDIQ contract; the equipment details are in documents that were not read
• Support the Tri-Service GPS Sustainment Management Office at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (requiring office code DB46200)
• Write software and engineering documents: software development plan, requirements and design specifications, test plan and report, user manual, version description
• Manage configuration: configuration management plan, change proposals, variance requests, status accounting
• Plan and support installs: site preparation and installation requirements, training materials, acceptance test plan and report
• Deliver a technical data package, a certification data report and a systems engineering management plan
• Report on management: management plan, risk plan, progress and status reports, meeting agendas, government property inventory, failure analysis reports
• Write an Operations Security (OPSEC) plan and protect critical information; the data list has 36 data items in all

What they'll judge offers on

• Past Performance (Section L, Volume 2): written questionnaires from people who know your work rate technical, schedule, cost and management performance

What to include when you submit

• Past performance questionnaire (Section L, Volume 2): the person rating your work returns it within 2 weeks of receiving it to the Contract Specialist at joanna.m.capazzi.civ@us.navy.mil, with a copy to Procuring Contracting Officer Chris Bigelow at christopher.n.bigelow.civ@us.navy.mil
• Request access to the controlled attachments (CUI Attachments N6893627R0002.zip) on SAM.gov

After award, you must have

• Handle critical information under the Navy's Operations Security rules; unencrypted transmission of critical information over an unclassified network is not allowed From Attachment 3 - OPSEC and Critical Info Annex.pdf: …may be transmitted over an unclassified network so long as it is encrypted.

Current contractor

No incumbent is named. The sources sought for this solicitation was posted on October 28, 2025 under Notice ID N6893626R0008; its response counts and capable-firm findings are not in the documents read.

Not in the notice text

• The main solicitation (instructions to bidders, evaluation criteria, statement of work, contract line items and prices) was not among the files read; find it on SAM.gov or ask the contracting office
• Attached but not read: L-6 CLIN 0003 Labor Pricing Spreadsheet.xlsx, L-3 Past Performance Contract Data.xlsx and L-1 Executive Summary Tables.xlsx
• The CUI Attachments N6893627R0002.zip are controlled; access must be requested on SAM.gov
• The set-aside is not stated on SAM.gov, and the documents read don't give one
• How and where to send the proposal, any page limits and the evaluation method
• The length of the contract, the number of orders and the contract's ceiling or value
• The place of performance; SAM.gov leaves it blank
• Whether a facility security clearance is needed; the attached annex belongs to a DD Form 254 (the Government's security requirements form)