Presolicitation
SOLE SOURCE – SUPPORT OF COMMON CHASSIS ELECTRONIC SUPPORT MEASURES (ESM) WEAPONS REPLACEABLE ASSEMBLIES (WRA’s), SHOP REPLACEABLE ASSEMBLIES (SRA’s), AND SUB-ASSEMBLIES
Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy · Sol. N0016422RJW71
The agency plans to award to one named company. Others can only submit a capability statement to challenge it.
AI summary Beta
The Navy's NSWC Crane plans to award a five-year Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to Argon ST, Incorporated, on a sole-source basis, for repair, engineering, logistics, test and training support of Common Chassis Electronic Support Measures assemblies. The ceiling was raised from $3.4M to $8.4M by an amendment. Other companies may send a capability statement, but no competitive solicitation will be posted.
Watch out for
- Sole-source to a named company. The Government intends to negotiate only with Argon ST, so a small business is unlikely to win unless it can show it can meet the need.
A Solicitation will NOT be posted to www.sam.gov due to the sole source nature.
- Lack of technical data. The Government says it lacks enough technical data and that re-engineering and recertification costs would be duplicated, which makes competing hard.
The basis for restricting competition is the lack of sufficient technical data
- Confusing dates. The text mentions a 2022 issue date and a 1 September 2022 closing date, while the header shows an October 2026 deadline, so confirm the real deadline.
Issue Date: 18 August 2022
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Repair, rework and maintenance of Common Chassis ESM weapons and shop replaceable assemblies and sub-assemblies
- Engineering and logistics support services
- Research and development, test and evaluation, and training
- Data collection and travel as required
- Support for PMUAS (PMA-262), MPRA (PMA-290), PMS-435 submarine systems and NUWC
- Contract type
- Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA); each job order will be synopsized
- Period of performance
- Five-year agreement; amendment 0001 makes no change to the period of performance
- Estimated value
- Ceiling increased from $3.4M to $8.4M (original text: about $3,360,588 over five years)
- How they'll choose
- Sole source (no competition planned)
- Offers due
- 2026-10-16 6:00 PM Eastern (18:00 -04:00) per the notice header; the text carries an older 2022 closing date
- How to submit
- Capability statement sent to the contract specialist by email: pamela.d.ryan.civ@us.navy.mil
What to include when you submit
- Reference solicitation number N0016422RJW71 when responding
- Contractor must be registered in SAM
- Questions go to Pamela Ryan, Code 0233, 812-854-8849
You must have
- Registered in the System for Award Management (SAM)
Contractor must be properly registered in the Government System for Award Management database (SAM).
Current contractor
Argon ST, Incorporated (Fairfax, VA) is named as the only intended source; a related RFI, N0016422SNB56, was posted earlier.
Not in the notice text
- What the capability statement should contain or how long it can be
- Quantities and individual job order sizes
- Place of performance
- Which date is the actual response deadline
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 16, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Solicitation
- N0016422RJW71
- Agency
- Dept of Defense · Dept of the Navy
- Office
- NSWC Crane
- NAICS
- 334511
- Product/service code
- J016
- Business type
- Electrical & electronic components
- Contracting contact
- ROSS ADAMSross.m.adams2.civ@us.navy.mil8123817283
- Versions
- 4 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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