Seaport-e: FY 2010 Additions

Seaport-Enhanced (Seaport-e) is a $5.3 billion multiple-award umbrella contract that let the US Navy and Marine Corps use an integrated approach to contracting for support services. Most requests involve engineering, financial, and program management support. Receiving an award makes a firm eligible to big on jobs under a pre-set contract vehicle, and the SeaPort-e portal provides a standardized means of soliciting bids and awarding task orders. In FY 2010, the US Navy awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple-award contracts to 556 contractors. These contracts are in addition to the existing 1,675 contracts previously awarded under the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) acquisition program… The awards have a 4-year base period, and one optional 5-year award term. 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. The 22 functional service areas within the scope of the contracts include: # Research and development support # Engineering system engineering and process engineering support # Modeling, Simulation, Stimulation, and Analysis support # Prototyping, pre-production, model-making, and fabric support # System design documentation and technical data support # Software engineering, development, programming, and network support # Reliability, maintainability, and availability support # Human […]