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NIWC Pacific RFI for DICE Laboratory Sustainment and Engineering Support

NIWC Pacific is seeking feedback from SeaPort-NxG contract holders on draft requirements for DICE Laboratory sustainment and engineering support. - Opportunity: Request for Information (RFI) and market research—not a solicitation or award. Responses are due 28 October 2026 at 10:00 AM PST. - Buyer: Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific, Tactical Systems Integration (TSI) Service Center, Code 53500. - Scope: Support DICE Labs 160, 314, and 339, including laboratory and facility operations, cable-plant management, IT administration, cybersecurity compliance, testbed staging, configuration management, test-event support, reporting, and authorized technical surge work. - Supported environments include CANES, ADNS, GCCS-M, DCGS-N, NTCSS/OMAA, MQ-25, and C2P/Link-16. - Draft materials also describe systems engineering, hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) integration, and support to C4ISR programs. - Proposed contract structure: Fixed-price core laboratory operations, with cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort surge support for unpredictable work. Surge tasks require written authorization or Technical Direction Letters and are tracked separately from the core baseline. - Requirements and deliverables: Personnel must be cleared up to TS/SCI for classified work. Requirements include monthly status and security-roster reporting, task tracking and scheduling, test plans and procedures, laboratory configuration guides, and test/inspection reports. - Term: Draft feedback materials describe one base year plus four 12-month option years. Another draft attachment gives a task-order date of 6 August 2026; definitive start and end dates are not established in the notice. - Attachments added in Notice 2: Draft Performance Work Statement for DICE Lab Support and RFI Draft PWS Feedback document. - Products and OEMs: No equipment purchases, product quantities, part numbers, or specific OEMs are identified.

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THIS OPPORTUNITY IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SEAPORT-NxG CONTRACT HOLDERS ONLY

This REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) is issued to conduct market research and solicit industry feedback on a draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) and proposed acquisition strategy. The Government is seeking feedback on transitioning the DICE Laboratory Support requirement from a 100% Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) structure to a hybrid Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) and CPFF structure. To support this market research, NIWC Pacific is seeking industry feedback and critical review from qualified SeaPort-NxG contractors capable of providing systems engineering, cybersecurity, laboratory sustainment, and hardware-in-the-loop integration support for the DICE Laboratory in San Diego, CA (ZIP 92152). This follow-on effort requires a TS/SCI cleared workforce to support major C4ISR programs (including CANES) over an anticipated 5-year period of performance.

Responses should be submitted via email to the Contract Specialist Ashleigh Becker at ashleigh.n.becker.civ@us.navy.mil and the Contracting Officer Dan Nardi at dan.a.nardi.civ@us.navy.mil no later than 28 October 2026 at 10:00AM PST. Additional Links:Department of Defense Procurement ToolboxPIEE Solicitation Module Link for N6600127R3505_0001Registration Instructions for the PIEE Solicitation ModuleWeb Based Training for the PIEE Solicitation Module

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