SPAWAR Pacific Selects Four Companies to Develop Advanced PNT and C4ISR Capabilities for the Navy

DOD announced that the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific had selected Riverside Engineering LLC, Vienna, Virginia ($14,419,476); Coherent Technical Services Inc., Lexington Park, Maryland ($12,068,259); Whitney, Bradley & Brown Inc., Reston, Virginia ($10,489,800); and Solute Inc., San Diego, California ($9,868,928) to provide emerging positioning, navigation and timing technologies for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications. All work will be performed in San Diego. Funds will be obligated as task orders are issued using research, development, test and evaluation (Navy); operations and maintenance (Navy); other procurement (Navy); and aircraft procurement (Navy). 

All awardees have an opportunity to compete for task orders during the ordering period. The four separate indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple-award contracts for engineering services will run through August 21, 2020. The two-year contracts do include one three-year option which, if exercised, would extend the period of performance through August 21, 2023, DOD stated. 

The contracts were competitively procured via a request for proposal that was published on the Federal Business Opportunities website and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command e-Commerce Central website. Four offers were received and four were selected for award. SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego is the contracting activity (N66001-18-D-0346).