The U.S. Navy has released a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract for the procurement and production of afloat network devices, spares, laboratory equipment, initial software, software renewal and maintenance services for surface, shore and submarine platforms.
The service will launch a full and open competition for the multiple-award Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to an RFP notice published Wednesday.
CANES is the Navy’s program of record to consolidate and replace the service’s existing afloat networks to provide warfighters with the needed infrastructure for systems, applications and services in order to gain advantage in the tactical cyber warfare domain.
The CANES program has several objectives, such as providing a secure afloat network for naval and joint operations, advancing the use of a common computing environment and mature cross domain technologies to reduce the number of afloat networks and reducing the infrastructure footprint and related training, logistics and sustainment costs.
The Navy first announced its intent to conduct a full and open competition for the CANES full deployment production IDIQ contract in August 2021.
Proposals are due April 14.
