STERNDRIVE

The United States Coast Guard is soliciting a sole-source award under FAR 13.106-1(b) for the procurement of twenty Sterndrive units, part number 5E31200UP with NSN 2010-01-618-9465, and five Transom assemblies, part number 62000025P with NSN 2090-01-584-2562, through a combined synopsis/solicitation issued as a Total Small Business Set-Aside under FAR 19.5. The acquisition is justified as sole source due to proprietary technical data and manufacturing controls held exclusively by Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, with no viable alternative suppliers capable of meeting the exact specifications required for U.S. Coast Guard 32TPSB and 23C vessels. The solicitation, identified as 70Z04026Q50248B0, was posted on June 24, 2026, with a response deadline of June 29, 2026, and is issued under the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s commercial item procedures outlined in FAR 12. The award will be made on a Firm Fixed Price basis through a best value trade-off evaluation emphasizing technical compliance, schedule performance, and price reasonableness, with no requirement for past performance scoring beyond responsibility determination. The items must be delivered to the U.S. Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland, with packaging conforming to MIL-STD-2073-1E Method 10 and marking adhering to MIL-STD-129R and ISO/IEC-16388-2007 using Code 39 barcodes. Invoices must be submitted exclusively through the Invoice Processing Portal (IPP.gov), and all contractors must comply with a suite of federal clauses addressing supply chain security, including prohibitions on Kaspersky Lab products, certain Chinese telecommunications equipment, forced labor, and counterfeit electronic parts. The solicitation requires offerors to be certified small businesses with valid UEI and CAGE codes, though specific pricing and contract value are not yet established as quotations are being solicited. The procurement office is the Surface Forces Logistics Center Procurement Branch 3 in Baltimore, Maryland, with primary point of contact Erica Perry and secondary contact Bryan Duffey. The contracting officer’s representative is Steven A.