Description
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) intends to utilize other than full and open competition to award a follow on contract to Raytheon Missile & Defense in St. Petersburg, Florida for engineering support for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 – FY2029 Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) Design Agent/Engineering Support (DA/ES) requirements. This contract shall provide for comprehensive system-level CEC maturation and system integration activities required to deliver the fully integrated CEC system for testing, certification, and fielding, including the integration of future CEC Increment 2 functionality designed / developed competitively via planned Other Transaction Authority (OTA) solicitations. This contract action will support the following level of effort (LOE) CEC requirements: Continued development, advanced studies and system enhancements/technical refreshes to existing fielded systems in support of the CEC program including Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework (RMF), CEC Enhanced Training (CET) and CEC Interim Training (CIT), Signal Data Processor Upgrades, Virtual Development Environment (VDE), Virtual Warfare Center Modeling & Simulation, Combined Integrated Air and Missile Defense and Anti-Submarine Warfare Training (CIAT) Support, Naval Integrated Fire Control (NIFC) support, CEC Software baseline development in support of E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft, Ship Self Defense System, AEGIS, and DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Continued development of the CEC Block II Capability including Communications and Interoperability for Integrated Fires (CIIF) Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) support Continued development, advanced studies, and system enhancements/technical refreshes to existing fielded systems Continued CEC Foreign Military Sales (FMS) software development efforts Continued development, advanced studies, and system enhancements to CEC in support of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Integrated Air and Missile Defense Technical Authority (IAMD TA) Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control (JTIFC) system architecture Development and maintenance of the CEC system, including in-service maintenance and development, integration, test, and delivery of maintenance builds The contemplated contract is anticipated to cover a period of five years (one-year base period and four one-year options). Parties interested in subcontracting opportunities should contact Raytheon Missiles & Defense directly. NAVSEA anticipates that award of the contract will occur in or around the third quarter of calendar year 2024. This pre-solicitation synopsis notice covers requirements that NAVSEA intends to procure on a sole-source basis with Raytheon Missile & Defense. The CEC program provides a sensor network with Integrated Fire Control capability that significantly improves strike force air and missile defense capabilities by coordinating measurement data from strike force air search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, integrated real-time, composite track air picture. The CEC sensor netting system improves the Area Air Defense capabilities of Naval Carrier Strike Groups and Expeditionary Strike Groups by extracting and distributing sensor-derived information such that the superset of this data is available to all participating CEC Cooperating Units. CEC fuses the distributed data into a single fire control quality air track picture that significantly improves unit track precision, consistency and continuity; expands detection range; and improves reaction time. CEC also improves strike force effectiveness by improving overall Situational Awareness and by enabling longer range, cooperative, multiple, or layered engagement strategies. NOTICE: The proposed contract action is for supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete with this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement.