The agency is gauging market interest. No bid is being requested yet — submitting a capabilities statement may put you on the radar for the eventual solicitation.
The Navy needs a small business to provide mission support for satellite ground station operations and spacecraft command and control.
Key Details
What exactly do they need? - The Navy needs a small business to provide mission support for satellite ground station operations and spacecraft command and control. - The work involves a mix of labor categories, including key personnel, consisting of 480,000 hours for the total period of performance, evenly divided per year.
What's the contract structure and timeline? - The resulting contract is planned to be a single award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) with a five (5) year ordering period. - Cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), level-of-effort (LOE) task orders are anticipated to be issued against the base IDIQ.
How will they pick the winner? - The solicitation is planned to use highest technically rated with a fair and reasonable price approach source selection procedures.
When and how do you bid? - This is a presolicitation notice, and the actual solicitation will be released in June 2026. - The solicitation will be competed via a 100% small business set-aside competition. - Prospective offerors must register themselves on the website and be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM in order to participate in this procurement.
Who can apply
- Any certified small business may apply.
Heads up — easy to miss
- This is not a solicitation, and phone calls regarding this pre-solicitation notice will not be accepted.
If you're interested, do this first
- Check that your small business is registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM.