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IT services portion of $3.5B Navy NGEN recompete goes live

This latest portion of the contract, set to replace the Navy's preceding $3.5 billion Next Generation Enterprise Networks acquisition, will specifically procure service, management, integration and transport (SMIT).
181004-N-UN340-001 SAN DIEGO (Oct. 4, 2018) Consolidated Afloat Ships Network Enterprise Services (CANES) racks in the newly refitted Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Network Integration and Engineering Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Rick Naystatt/Released).

The Navy issued a request for proposals Thursday for the IT services part of long-awaited, massive Next Generation Enterprise Networks Recompete (NGEN-R).

This latest portion of the NGEN-R contract, which is set to replace the Navy’s preceding $3.5 billion Next Generation Enterprise Networks acquisition, will specifically procure service, management, integration and transport (SMIT).

“Today’s successful release of the NGEN-R SMIT RFP is a major achievement in implementing the Navy’s IT acquisition strategy to segment network services for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet and the Marine Corps Enterprise Network into multiple contracts,” Capt. Ben McNeal, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said in a release. “Separating IT services into multiple contract segments makes management, financial and competitive sense for the Navy.”

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), the procuring service, issued an RFP in September for hardware devices “as a service,” meaning the vendor will lease them out on a temporary basis.

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NGEN-R is roughly a 10-year contract in total. Proposals for this latest portion of the contract are due Jan. 10, 2019, whereas bids for the hardware contract are due Nov. 19, 2018.

The original NGEN contract expired in June. Navy extended it with a $787 award to Perspecta, which will expire next September.

Billy Mitchell

Written by Billy Mitchell

Billy Mitchell is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Scoop News Group's editorial brands. He oversees operations, strategy and growth of SNG's award-winning tech publications, FedScoop, StateScoop, CyberScoop, EdScoop and DefenseScoop. After earning his journalism degree at Virginia Tech and winning the school's Excellence in Print Journalism award, Billy received his master's degree from New York University in magazine writing while interning at publications like Rolling Stone.

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