N6600120F0294 Exception to Fair Opportunity_Contract Modification

The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) intends to issue Request for Proposal (RFP) No. N66001-15-R-0037, to obtain engineering and support services for network and information systems technology programs. The SSC Pacific Networks Division (Code 55100), plans, establishes, and manages network and information systems for Programs of Record (PoR) and projects in support of Department of Defense (DoD) requirements, as well as associated composite programs. Technical support is needed in the areas of program and project management support, systems engineering, capabilities, requirements and assessments, technology development, architecture research and design, modeling and simulation, engineering and manufacturing development, developmental and operational testing and evaluation, installation, operational support to platforms and facilities, network system maintenance and timing, process improvement planning, and software development. A Draft Performance Work Statement is attached to this synopsis. The proposed requirement will be solicited under unrestricted, full and open competition. The SSC Pacific Small Business Office (SBO) concurred with the acquisition strategy decision on 01 August 2014. SSC Pacific intends on awarding multiple Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) type contracts. The prospective contracts will have a three year base period and two one-year option periods. The estimated level- of-effort for the total requirement is 456,500 labor hours. The NAICS code for this procurement is 541330 with a size standard of $38.5 million. The solicitation and any amendments will only be available electronically on the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command E-Commerce Web Page at https://e- commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil/, under SSC Pacific - Open Solicitations. Matters posted on the web site are not terms of the solicitation unless the solicitation is written or amended to include such matters. It is estimated that the solicitation will be released in October of 2015 with responses due 30 days thereafter. This release date is an estimate only. FIRMS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REVIEW THE E-COMMERCE WEB SITE REGULARLY FOR UPDATED INFORMATION. The market research survey for this procurement, SSC-Pacific_MKTSVY_E4496 (N66001-14-T-0037), was published on E-Commerce and FBO.gov on 10 April 2014. The incumbent contractors are Computer Sciences Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation, which previously provided support under contract numbers N66001-11-D-0016 and N66001-11-D-0017, respectfully.