SeaPort-e IDIQ Award Leads to Ocean of Opportunities for ASM Research

30 May 2008

(ASM Research, Inc., Fairfax, VA) – ASM Research, Inc. is pleased to announce that we received notification yesterday that we have been awarded a one-year base contract, with one five-year option period and a second four-year option period, as a prime contractor on the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) Rolling Admissions Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)/Multiple Award contract. The SeaPort-e contract vehicle allows the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Military Sealift Command, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Strategic Systems Programs, Office of Naval Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the United States Marine Corps to solicit work from SeaPort-e companies. Status on this IDIQ as a prime contractor enables ASM to provide qualified personnel, materials, facilities, equipment, test instrumentation, data collection and analysis, hardware and software, and other services to support the Navy, DTRA, and Marine Corps in the execution of their overall organization functions and the specific missions of their individual activities. This contract will be administered by ASM headquarters in Fairfax, VA, but may include work across the entire United States, specifically including the Northeast, National Capital, Gulf Coast, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions.

This award represents ASM’s entrance on a NAVY IDIQ contract vehicle as a prime contractor. Having recently emerged from small business status in 2006, this win ushers in a new era for the company as a recognized large business, capable prime contractor, and legitimate force in the Department of Defense (DoD) contracting industry. Additionally, the SeaPort-e award opens new markets for ASM in the Navy and Marine Corps – customers for whom ASM has provided limited work in the past, but who now become highly accessible through this IDIQ. SeaPort-e truly widens the scope of ASM’s future, providing the company the opportunity to envision a more full-scale support to the DoD, through a balance of continued work for the Army and new work for the Navy, DTRA, and Marine Corps.

Work on the SeaPort-e vehicle covers 22 functional areas. ASM provides expertise in 19 of these areas, but is eligible to bid for task orders on all 22. The areas in which ASM demonstrated expertise are: Research and Development; Engineering; Modeling Analysis; Prototyping; System Design Documentation; Software Engineering; Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A); Usability Testing; Configuration Management (CM); Quality Assurance (QA); Information System Development and Information Assurance (IA); Testing and Evaluation; Logistics Supply and Provisioning; Training; In-Service Engineering; Program Support; Functional and Administrative Analytical and Operational Assessment; and Public Affairs and Multimedia. ASM is currently developing a publicly available page on the corporate website to communicate to potential Department of Navy customers its capabilities to provide extraordinary results in these functional areas.

Hope Dolan, ASM Program Manager, said, “We are very excited about receiving a prime contract award as a result of the SeaPort-e Rolling Admissions solicitation.  We look forward to the numerous opportunities that this selection will give us in supporting the Navy.”