NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE-PC-BASED OPEN-ARCHITECTURE FOR RECONFIGURABLE TRAINING SYSTEMS (PORTS) 2027

The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) intends to award a sole source contract to Serco North America, LLC for the provision of PC-Based Open-Architecture for Reconfigurable Training Systems (PORTS) 2027. The contract is expected to be an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract (ID/IQC) with a 5-year ordering period and a total value of $49M. The PORTS technology is used in the design of Surface Navy shore-based trainers and is based on the Combined Tactical Training and Analysis System (CTTAS) simulation engine. Interested sources are encouraged to provide their written technical capabilities to deliver the requirement, which includes demonstrating familiarity, access to, and technical proficiency to procure, license, or re-engineer all baseline elements of the existing PORTS/CTTAS software suite. • The contract will require the development, testing, and fielding of equivalent complex trainer applications that ensure absolute interoperability within the candidate system without degradation to current PORTS trainer readiness. • The contractor must substantiate its capacity to rapidly acquire specialized Subject Matter Expert (SME) technical acumen necessary to develop, test, and field equivalent complex trainer applications. • The contractor must demonstrate strict adherence to DoD cybersecurity compliance mandates and seamless interoperability with both Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) remote connectivity nodes and separate Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) standard connected training systems.