In response to declining budgets, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and its Warfare Centers, which are responsible for the acquisition of all US Navy ship and shipboard systems, targeted a reduction in the cost of services for its headquarters, Directorates, Program Executive Offices (PEOs) and field activities. As the first major step towards achieving this goal, NAVSEA embarked on a business process re-engineering effort to maximize the efficiency and economy of support service procurement. This effort, collectively referred to as SeaPort, took a three pronged approach: 1) the award of multiple award contracts (MAC) with innovative contracting provisions, 2) the launch of a web based commercial e-procurement portal solution, and 3) the development of a web site (www.seaport.navy.mil) to serve as the entry point to the portal. These three efforts converged on 2 April 2001, when NAVSEA awarded the multiple contracts and launched the market place and the web site. 

On 5 April 2004, a new set of MACs were awarded to 151 new MAC holders in a program called SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e). While used by all NAVSEA activities and HQ, SeaPort-e is particularly geared to satisfy the mission and requirements of the Surface and Undersea Warfare Centers. SeaPort -e uses the same successful business model of SeaPort, including the streamlined acquisition procedures, e-procurement portal, and innovative contracting provisions. In May of 2005, the SeaPort-e MACs were expanded to include 648 prime contractors through the Virtual SYSCOM Rolling Admissions process (From SeaPort Vendor Portal User Guide, NAVSEA SeaPort Vendor Portal Version 1.4, April 24, 2006).  On 1 June 2006, the U.S. Navy awarded an additional 251 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts for a wide range of engineering, technical, and programmatic services and solutions for the Virtual SYSCOM (NAVSEA, NAVAIR, NAVSUP, SPAWAR, Strategic Systems Program (SSP), NAVFAC) as well as Commander, Naval Installations (CNI) and the US Marine Corps.  SeaPort-e furthers the Navy’s Seapower 21 objective to increase efficiency, and allows for tailoring services according to the needs of geographically-dispersed organizations with significantly diverse product area requirements and missions.

Contract Number: N00178-04-D-4024
Website:  http://www.seaport.navy.mil/