Assured Decisions Awarded Seaport-E Contract

06/13/2008

The U.S. Navy has awarded a Seaport-Enhanced (Seaport-e) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract to Assured Decisions, LLC that will provide for their competition for service requirements solicited by Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Strategic Systems Programs, Office of Naval Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the United States Marine Corps. 

The 22 functional service areas within the scope of the contracts include:  

1. Research and Development Support. 2. Engineering System Engineering and Process Engineering Support.  3. Modeling, Simulation, Stimulation, and Analysis Support.  4. Prototyping, Pre-Production, Model-Making, and Fabrication Support.  5. System Design Documentation and Technical Data Support.  6. Software Engineering, Development, Programming, and Network Support.  7. Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) Support.  8. Human Factors, Performance, and Usability Engineering Support.  9. System Safety Engineering Support.  10. Configuration Management (CM) Support.  11. Quality Assurance (QA) Support.  12. Information System (IS) Development, Information Assurance (IA), and Information Technology (IT) Support.  13. Inactivation and Disposal Support.  14. Interoperability, Test and Evaluation, Trials Support.  15. Measurement Facilities, Range, and Instrumentation Support. 16. Logistics Support.  17. Supply and Provisioning Support.  18. Training Support.  19. In-Service Engineering, Fleet Introduction, Installation and Checkout Support.  20. Program Support.  21. Functional and Administrative Support and  22. Public Affairs and Multimedia Support. 

The government estimates a maximum of $5,300,000,000 of services will be procured per year via orders issued under the SeaPort-e multiple award contracts. The award has a one-year base period with one five-year award term and one additional four-year award term. The award of this contract is a result of the SeaPort-e Rolling Admissions solicitation. The SeaPort-e acquisition is comprised of seven regional zones in which task orders will be competed based upon the principal place of performance. These awards contain provisions to set aside requirements for small businesses, service disabled veteran owned small businesses, 8a business development program and historically under-utilized business zone small businesses. Under these multiple award contracts, Assured Decisions will be provided a fair opportunity to compete for individual task orders solicited within their zone or zones of performance. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online. Contract funds will be obligated at the time of task order award and as such, multiple funding types (with varying expiration dates) may be used, consistent with the purpose for which the funds were appropriated. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va. is the contracting activity (N00178-08-D-5311 through N00178-08-D-5650).