Pre-solicitationPosted Apr 2, 2024·Responses due Apr 17, 2024

SOLE SOURCE - THE COMMON DATA LINK (CDL) SYSTEM TEARDOWN, AND EVALUATION, REPAIR, SPARES, DESIGN CHANGES, ENGINEERING SERVICES AND LOGISTICS SUPPORT OF SUBSIDIARY INCLUDES TRAINING, PROGRAM STATUS REVIEWS, AND TRAVEL.

NAVSEA, naval shipyards and surface/undersea warfare centers · NSWC CRANE

Stage
Early notice (sources sought, presolicitation or special notice)
NAICS
334511
Value
Not stated
Solicitation
N0016424RJW78
Set-aside
None stated
PSC
5826
Place
Not stated
Contact
Christina Lane (christina.a.lane9.civ@us.navy.mil)
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Where this opportunity stands

Every notice posted under solicitation N0016424RJW78 in this department, oldest first.

Early notice
  • Apr 2, 2024 · this notice
    Pre-solicitation
Solicitation
None posted
Award
  • Oct 5, 2026
    Award Notice
    L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · $25.0M
    Open

Next steps for this stage

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  • Contact the contracting officer named on the notice.
  • Check who won similar work; they are the likely bidders.

What the notice says

N0016424RJW78 � SOLE SOURCE - THE COMMON DATA LINK (CDL) SYSTEM TEARDOWN, AND EVALUATION, REPAIR, SPARES, DESIGN CHANGES, ENGINEERING SERVICES AND LOGISTICS SUPPORT OF SUBSIDIARY INCLUDES TRAINING, PROGRAM STATUS REVIEWS, AND TRAVEL. PSC: 5826 � NAICS 334511 Issue Date: 02 April 2024 � Closing Date: 17 April 2024 � 2:00 PM Time Eastern Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division has a requirement for a five (5) year Firm Fixed Price and Cost-Plus Fixed Fee Type Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to support the CDL System for the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Communication (UA … (show all)

COMMS) Network with efforts to include design, develop, fabricate, prototype, produce, test, modify, repair replenish, support and maintain applicable UA COMMS system products and support components. Contractor shall provide engineering and logistic services, labor, material, equipment, and facilities to perform assigned tasks and shall include efforts to increased producibility, maintainability, reliability, testability, increase safety and decrease cost. The estimated ceiling amount for all items is $25,000,000. The anticipated delivery terms for this acquisition will be FOB Destination. Inspection and Acceptance is anticipated to be at the Source. The proposed noncompetitive contract action is anticipated to be awarded under FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. The anticipated contract action award date is Second Quarter FY25. The proposed contract action is for the supplies or services for which the Government intends to solicit and negotiate with one source, L3 Technologies, Inc. Communication Systems-West, 640 N 2200 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2925, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 (statutory authority 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)), one responsible source. This is being sole sourced due to the lack of sufficient technical data, extensive duplication of costs to include procure, re-tool, reverse engineer, generate acceptance test procedures, perform first article testing, acquire flight certification and perform stress analysis that are not expected to be recovered through competition. This is also being sole sourced due to unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency requirement through any other source. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by the agency. However, a determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this solicitation is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of re-evaluating the justification for sole source or limitation of sources and making a determination to change the acquisition strategy to a competitive procurement. The Solicitation and any amendments for this sole source action will not be posted to sam.gov and are available only from the POC identified below. The request for proposal will be provided to L3 Technologies, Inc. Communications Systems-West through electronic mail. Companies interested in subcontracting opportunities should contact L3 Technologies, Inc. Communication Systems-West, 640 N 2200 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2925 directly. Contractors must be properly registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Offerors may obtain information on SAM registration and annual confirmation requirements by calling 1-866-606-8220 or via the internet at https://www.sam.gov. Questions or inquiries should be directed to Christina Lane, Code 0233, telephone 812-381-7227 or e-mail christina.a.lane9.civ@us.navy.mil. Please reference the above solicitation number when responding to this notice.

Who won similar work

28 award notices on SAM.gov in the last 24 months. Matched by: Same office (NSWC CRANE), same NAICS 334511.

Single-winner award sizes (28): middle half $5.8M to $48.1M, median $19.4M; range $750K to $421.6M.

WinnerAwardsValueLast
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION · $NOC · $39.3B5$486.5MOct 9, 2026
Raytheon Company · $RTX · $68.9B5$205.8MSep 15, 2025
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.3$254.1MOct 8, 2026
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION · $LMT · $67.6B2$297.0MSep 9, 2026
PROGRAMS MANAGEMENT ANALYTICS & TECHNOLOGIES INC1$89.0MDec 16, 2025
Northrup Grumman Systems Corporation1$65.2MAug 28, 2025
HIGH BRIDGE SOLUTIONS, LLC1$43.0MDec 17, 2024
MSI DEFENCE SYSTEMS US, LLC1$29.3MAug 25, 2025
POLARITY INC.1$7.5MJul 8, 2026
Diamond Antenna and Microwave Corporation1$7.1MSep 25, 2025

Value counts single-winner awards. "Shared" awards are multiple-award contracts that list every winner with the same total ceiling; that ceiling is not one company's win, so it is not added in. Revenue next to a ticker is the company's last annual revenue from its 10-K.

Investor context
  • $NOC reported $39.3B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 28 past awards, $19.4M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $RTX reported $68.9B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 28 past awards, $19.4M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K
  • $LMT reported $67.6B revenue in FY2025. The median single-winner award in these 28 past awards, $19.4M, is under 0.1% of that. 10-K

One award's total value against one year of revenue; many awards are paid over several years.

Latest awards

Materiality: one award's value as a share of the winner's revenue over the latest 12 months in its SEC filings (or its last fiscal year, as noted when you point at it). Low under 1%, Medium 1 to 5%, High 5% or more. Many awards are paid over several years, so this overstates a single year's share.

Competitive landscape

For the 8 most frequent past winners above. Lobbying is matched by the company's exact name or exact ticker; agencies are as named on the filings.

  • 2 of these past winners lobbied Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines since 2024 (25 filings)
  • 0 of their lobbyists list a past Navy, Dept of or U.S. Marines job
  • $1.1M from their corporate PACs since 2024 to members of House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Armed Services, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Committee on Armed Services
  • 0 foreign-agent (FARA) registrations
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Policy around it

Bills the past winners named while lobbying this agency's issues, rules from the department, and executive orders that name the agency, last 12 months.

  • 8 bills named on the past winners' lobbying filings
  • 32 rules from the department in the last 12 months
  • 0 executive orders naming the agency in the last 12 months
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Market

For past winners matched exactly to a listed company. Insider trades are open-market buys and sells (Form 4) in the last 90 days, shown as facts; our own study found insiders do not reliably buy ahead of awards. A sale marked 10b5-1 was made under a trading plan set up in advance.

  • 3 of the past winners are listed companies
  • 0 insider buys and 6 insider sells at them in the last 90 days
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