USSOCOM Personal Defense Weapon (PDW)

Personal Defense Weapon (PDW)

Announcement No.: PDW1N

The Government hereby submits a notice of intent to award the Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) contract to Sig Sauer. This IDIQ will provide complete PDW weapons (Sig Rattlers - 5.56mm and .300 Blackout caliber) that includes suppressors (SL series), cleaning kits, magazines, quick barrel change kits and force on force training kits. Furthermore, parts, sustainment, and New Equipment Training will also be part of this IDIQ. The PDW system will allow Operators to have maximum firepower in a concealable weapon.

This IDIQ will be a five-year Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract. After years of continuous market research, USSOCOM HQ has concluded that Sig Sauer is the only vendor that can fulfill USSOCOM’s need for the COTS PDW requirement. USSOCOM HQ has been researching and reviewing different systems since 2017. We have meticulously reviewed each system for technical acceptance and whether it fits the COTS definition. Except for Sig Sauer, the vendors did not meet the technical requirements and/or the weapons do not meet the COTS definition. Due to the nature of this particular effort, USSOCOM cannot procure PDWs that are prototypes, under development, not in production, are in limited production or will be in general production in 1-2 years from now (assuming its not currently in production or is in limited production).

 In addition, due to the programmatic requirements of this effort, we can only award to the Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM); in this case its Sig Sauer.  The OEM (Sig Sauer) must provide New Equipment Training (for both Operators and Engineers/Technicians), Parts Replacement Schedule, sustainment etc… Sig Sauer is the only vendor who can fulfill the programmatic requirements because they are the sole owner the Intellectual Property (IP) and the technical data package for the Sig Sauer Rattler system.  

This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals. This is only a Notice of Intent. If you have feedback, please send an email to marvin.marcia@socom.mil by 5/26/2022.

Marvin Marcia

Contracting Officer

Weapons, Ammo, Precision Strike, Visual Augmentation and Foreign Weapons

SOF AT&L-K

USSOCOM HQ