Technical and Engineering Support Services

The government authority located in Washington, DC, is seeking technical and engineering support services to develop, test, and document a ship hull model creation tool. The agency needs to solve the problem of generating accurate commercial ship hull models during marine casualties when salvage naval architects have access to only limited information. The project covers the development of a tool within the Rhinoceros software platform, utilizing only the modules included in the stock distribution of the software without any third-party plug-ins. The agency will provide commercial ship types, plans, drawings, and information to support the development and testing of the tool. The resulting tool must be capable of generating commercial ship hull models that possess accurate hydrostatic properties. All work under this contract must be performed offsite. The bidding is set aside entirely for small businesses. Eligible bidders must be onshore organizations based solely in the United States. The agency is currently looking for proposals and has not disclosed a specific budget, nor have they provided evaluation criteria or key dates in the solicitation details.