Antarctic Research Vessel (ARV) Integrator, Solicitation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to release a solicitation for an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the services of an Integrator for the procurement of an Antarctic Research Vessel (ARV). This is a single-award IDIQ. The ordering period is anticipated to be ten years from the date of award. Work is anticipated to take place at contractor locations.

The solicitation is subject to full-and-open competition, it is not set-aside for small business concerns. The applicable North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code assigned to this procurement is 541330 and the size standard for this NAICS code is $47M. The Product Service Code is C216 Architect and Engineering- General: Marine Engineering. All firms or individuals responding must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) https://www.sam.gov by the award date.

Section L of the attached solicitation discusses instructions for receipt of proposals and of questions related to the solicitation.

The solicitation has attachments pertaining to the vessel design. PDFs of design documents are publicly available. The native files used to create these documents are also available, but the native files must have access requested via the SAM.gov interface. They are only available via the SAM.gov interface. The solicitation is provided as a PDF document, as well as an identical version for Microsoft Word. 

All costs associated with responding to this release will be solely at the interested party’s expense and any information provided under this release is purely voluntary. Not responding to this release does not preclude participation in any future competition or participation in future subcontract opportunities which may arise with NSF. NSF expects to release any future information regarding this release at the Federal Point of Entry, www.sam.gov. It is the responsibility of interested parties to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to solicitation. NSF also reserves all rights to amend this solicitation throughout the response period.