Shipboard Automated Maintenance Management (SAMM)

The Military Sealift Command’s Engineering Directorate is seeking small business contractors to provide non-personal engineering services for the Shipboard Automated Maintenance Management (SAMM) system to support fleet material readiness through preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs. The contract requires comprehensive technical support across shore and shipboard environments, including system implementation, troubleshooting, data analysis, and software development for SAMM, alongside the use of condition monitoring technologies such as vibration analysis, lube oil sampling, and energy management systems. Contractors must be ABS Recognized Condition Monitoring Companies to perform required inspections and maintain compliance with ABS Part 7, Appendix 14 standards, and must integrate data between ABS and SAMM systems while submitting a series of mandatory Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables, including annual condition monitoring reports, software requirements documentation, project management plans, and monthly data validation and analysis reports. The performance location is primarily Norfolk, Virginia, with the contractor required to maintain personnel within 50 miles of MSC Headquarters and deploy teams to vessels across the West Coast, Gulf Coast, and other operational locations for shipboard testing, inspections, and system installations. Key personnel must include a program manager, assistant program manager, engineers, technicians, and applications systems analysts, all of whom must be onboarded within 30 days of award, with specific roles requiring expertise in SAMM’s Sybase database, remote troubleshooting via the MSC Afloat WAN, and technical writing. The contractor must also provide secure, climate-controlled space for government-furnished property, ensure all personnel have appropriate clearance for government systems, and conduct weekly data distributions through ESTA while calculating and improving the Materiel Readiness Quotient model. The solicitation is a total small business set-aside under FAR 19.5, with the response deadline set for May 8, 2026, and the award anticipated to trigger a 60-day phase-in period prior to ship delivery milestones projected from April through December 2027. The contract operates under a trade-off evaluation approach, emphasizing technical capability, personnel qualifications, and delivery reliability over cost alone, with no fixed pricing or contract value disclosed in the solicitation.