The Navy is soliciting industry input for the second time for the recompete of the Next Generation Enterprise Network [NGEN] contract.
According to a news release put out by the service, the Navy is considering competing and awarding several follow-ons to the NGEN contract. It released a request for information (RFI) on Dec. 28 for insight on whether to award a separate End User Hardware (EUHW) contract as part of the NGEN recompete process.
NGEN is the service’s contracting vehicle for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), a government-owned network that serves more than 700,000 users. Unlike previous contract structures, NGEN gives the Navy more flexibility to compete hardware, software and computing services.
“We are using the insight from all responses, particularly as it relates to End User Hardware, to further solidify the requirements and to ensure that we release a quality RFP (request for proposals) that industry will be able to bid on and execute in order to provide optimized enterprise services to our Sailors and Marines,” Capt. Michael Abreu, Naval Enterprise Networks program manager, said in a news release.
Respondents have until Jan. 15, 2016 to respond. The service expects to award a recompete contract in 2017.
The service had planned to release two RFIs in total. The first one, issued in September, consisted of a survey meant to help identify potential vendors and available technologies (Defense Daily, Sept. 25). Abreu has said the responses will help the service solidify requirements.
The current NGEN contract, held by Hewlett Packard [HPQ], expires on June 27, 2018. The company was the legacy NMCI vendor and was awarded a NGEN contract in June 2013.