Presolicitation
Nonskid for Naval Ships/Vessels
Department of Defense · Department of the Navy
AI summaryThe Navy's Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) is planning to buy nonskid (the gritty deck coating that keeps people from slipping) removal and replacement on U.S. Navy ships and other vessels. This is a presolicitation notice only: the solicitation itself is to be posted on SAM.gov on or after October 30, 2026. The Government intends to award one indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: orders placed as needs come up) firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a five year ordering period, and SAM.gov shows a total small business set-aside with Jacksonville, FL as the place of performance. More in the summary
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The Navy's Southeast Regional Maintenance Center (SERMC) is planning to buy nonskid (the gritty deck coating that keeps people from slipping) removal and replacement on U.S. Navy ships and other vessels. This is a presolicitation notice only: the solicitation itself is to be posted on SAM.gov on or after October 30, 2026. The Government intends to award one indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ: orders placed as needs come up) firm-fixed-price (FFP: one set price, whatever the work ends up costing) contract with a five year ordering period, and SAM.gov shows a total small business set-aside with Jacksonville, FL as the place of performance.
Who can bid
- Small business: SAM.gov lists this as a total small business set-aside, so only small businesses can bid
- Previous experience removing and replacing nonskid onboard U.S. Navy surface combatants (warships)
Things to watch
From the version posted Oct 15, 2026.
- Serious: Total small business set-aside. SAM.gov lists the set-aside as Small Business Set Aside - Total, so only small businesses can bid.
- Serious: Navy surface combatant experience required. Bidders must show past nonskid removal and replacement work on U.S. Navy surface combatants, which can shut out firms with only commercial or other-vessel experience.
- Worth checking: Solicitation not yet issued. The real solicitation, with quantities, locations, evaluation factors and how to submit, is to be posted on SAM.gov on or after October 30, 2026.
Read from the notice text only.
Full summary
What they want
- Remove and replace nonskid on U.S. Navy ships and other vessels
- Prepare surfaces to one of the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) standards: SSPC-SP10/National Association of Corrosion Engineers International (NACE) 2 Near-White Blast Cleaning, SSPC-SP 11 Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, or SSPC-SP12 WJ-3/NACE 5 high and ultra high pressure water jetting
- Apply nonskid of MIL-PRF-24667 Type I or Type V (roll-on), Type IV (spray-on) or Type XI (peel and stick sections)
- Contract type
- Single indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract
- Period of performance
- Five year ordering period
- Place of performance
- Jacksonville, FL, USA (as listed on SAM.gov)
- Estimated value
- Not stated
- Offers due
- November 30, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern
Not in the notice text
- The solicitation itself is not posted yet: quantities, ship and port locations, evaluation factors, price schedule and how to submit offers are not in this notice
- What the November 30, 2026 response date on SAM.gov is for (offers, or responses to this notice) is not explained
- How many ships or how much deck area the work covers
- The dollar value of the contract
- No current contractor is named
Eligibility and how to respond
- Set aside for small businesses: only a business that counts as small under this notice's NAICS code can bid as the prime contractor. More open small business set-asides under NAICS 336611
- How and where to submit is in the notice text and its attachments on SAM.gov.
- Service contracts usually set minimum pay rates (the Service Contract Act). Price the labor with the SCA price calculator.
Notice details
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Notice type
- Presolicitation
- Office
- Southeast Regional Maint Center, Mayport, FL
- Product/service code
- J998 · Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (EAST)
- Business type
- Aircraft, ship & vehicle parts (FedReady's grouping, from NAICS 336611)
- 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 read a government solicitation
- How to price a government contract
- Set-aside contracts explained
- Limitations on subcontracting
Terms on this notice: Solicitation, Set-aside
Full notice text from SAM.gov
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