- The Navy has opened the ICE-T support opportunity for SeaPort-NxG small businesses
- Offers are due July 30
- The 2026 Navy Summit will explore AI, digital engineering and more
The Department of the Navy has issued a request for proposals for Integrated National Intelligence Systems Cybersecurity, Engineering and Technology Implementation, or ICE-T, support task order through the Naval Information Warfare Center, or NIWC, Atlantic. The government anticipates that the total award value may exceed $345 million.
Attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Navy Summit on Aug. 27 and join military, government and industry leaders as they discuss artificial intelligence, digital engineering, autonomy, enterprise network modernization and more. Save your seats now to join discussions on the technologies shaping the future of maritime operations.
According to a SAM.gov notice published Thursday, proposals are due July 30.
What Details Should Offerors Know About the Navy Solicitation?
The opportunity is restricted to SeaPort Next Generation, or NxG, multiple-award contract holders and is set aside for small businesses. Offerors seeking access to the performance work statement, which contains controlled unclassified information, must submit signed non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs, for each individual requiring access. NIWC Atlantic set a July 10 deadline for the NDA submission.
The solicitation includes a base period and multiple option periods covering labor, other direct costs and contract data requirements. The task order’s base period is expected to run from Sept. 30, 2026, through Sept. 29, 2027, followed by four one-year option periods and a six-month option term that could extend performance through March 29, 2032.
The solicitation identifies a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing arrangement for ICE-T labor and a cost-no-fee structure for other direct costs.
What Technical Capabilities Must Offerors Demonstrate?
According to the solicitation, offerors must demonstrate technical capabilities supporting cybersecurity engineering, identity management and data engineering requirements within the intelligence community.
For cybersecurity engineering and implementation support, offerors must demonstrate experience developing, enhancing and integrating enterprise-level data security services across multiple agencies. This includes the ability to support growing data volumes, user populations and transaction rates without performance degradation.
Offerors must also demonstrate experience supporting an enterprise-level zero trust data security services architecture through identity, credential and access management capabilities. This includes integrating access management solutions, policy-enabled encryption platforms and data header tagging solutions.
In addition, offerors must demonstrate data engineering experience developing data registration, cataloging and discovery capabilities. The solicitation requires solutions that enable secure data transparency and visibility using enterprise data header, trusted data format and zero trust data format standards based on ACP-240.
What Is SeaPort NxG?
SeaPort NxG is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that provides the Navy with an integrated approach to contracting for professional support services.
The contract vehicle seeks to enhance small business participation and offers new industry partners an opportunity to participate through rolling admissions. In January 2025, the Navy awarded 1,023 companies positions on the SeaPort NxG contract for professional support services as part of the second rolling admissions for the procurement vehicle.
