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Navy To Begin Competition For Mobile Landing Platform In Coming Weeks

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

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By Geoff Fein Over the course of the next month, the Navy will issue an unrestricted competitive solicitation for Systems Design Part 1 (SD1), with an option for SD2, for the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), a key component of the service's sea basing concept. According to the pre solicitation notice, posted at http://www.fbo.gov (N0002408R2270), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) intends to conduct the acquisition of MLP as a two-phased procurement. Both SD1 and SD2 are included in Phase 1 and…

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