Contract · Federal
Notice of Intent To Award Sole Source WHOI REMUS Support
DEPT OF DEFENSE / DEPT OF THE NAVY NEWPORT, RI
- Status Closes in 19 days
- Amount Amount not listed
- Set-aside None (open competition)
Scope
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) intends to award, on a sole-source basis under the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C.
3204(a)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.103-1, a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) and Cost Only, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity type contract to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), CAGE Code 88846, Woods Hole, MA.
This requirement is to provide research, development, engineering, and technical services to support NUWCDIVNPT in developing, assessing, upgrading, modernizing, and deploying the Navy Remote Environmental Measuring Units (REMUS) Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) systems and advanced undersea communication subsystems across all classes of submarines and surface ships.
Tasking includes evaluation of system hardware, firmware and software of the REMUS, as well as design analysis and assessment of prototype systems to meet system, operation and platform requirements.
It is anticipated that 113,000 man-hours will be required over the five-year ordering period.
The NAICS Code is 541715, and the size standard is 1,000 employees.
WHOI is the sole designer, original developer, and proprietor of the core technologies embedded within the REMUS 600 and REMUS 3000 AUV platforms.
WHOI developed, implemented, and owns proprietary rights and source code for the undersea acoustic and optical communications architectures operating across submarines, surface vessels, buoys, off-hull transponders, divers, and unmanned vehicles.
Additionally, WHOI implemented dual-layered, National Security Agency (NSA)-approved encryption software embedded in these systems, requiring specialized and proprietary codebase access to maintain deployment compliance under Navy Authority to Operate (ATO), Interconnect Security Agreements, and Posture Trans...
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Timeline
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Posted
Nov 10, 2026
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Status
Open now
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