The purchase is not suitable for full and open competition for the following reasons.

a. This contract is necessary to provide an additional Mk 18 Mod 1 UUV for use in evaluation of future capabilities to improve the performance of the fielded MK 18 Mod 1 Systems. The MK 18 Mod 1 Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are based on Hydroid's commercially available Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) 100 UUV.

b. Hydroid Inc. is the only U.S. licensed manufacturer of the REMUS UUV variants and maintains the proprietary design and all data rights to the REMUS.

Offerors wishing to provide responses/comments to this synopsis shall do so via email to [email protected] no later than the closing date of this synopsis.  The closing date of this synopsis is 05 October 2014.

Delivery shall be FOB Destination required by 29 May 2015. The resultant contract will be a firm fixed price contract.

The Department of Defense will no longer award contracts to contractors not registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) database.  Registration may be accomplished by accessing the SAM website at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/.

Contract Specialist (buyer): Ms. Courtney Henslee, Code B32, NSWC PCD, 110 Vernon Avenue, Panama City, Florida 32407 (850) 235-5354, FAX (850) 234-4197, e-mail: [email protected].  

FSC Code:      5845
NAICS:           334511
SBA Size Standard:    750 employees