SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) has made electronic procurement of Engineering, Financial, and Program Management support services a reality. Using SeaPort-e, the Navy Virtual SYSCOM (VS) Commanders (NAVAIR, NAVSEA, NAVSUP and SPAWAR) has adopted an integrated approach to contracting for support services. The SoftConcept is a prime contract holder for the SeaPort-e contract. The Seaport e portal provides a standardized means of issuing competitive solicitations amongst a large & diverse community of approved contractors, as well as a platform for awarding & managing performance-based task orders.

NAVSEA established the SeaPort e to meet strategic sourcing for performance based contracting. The Seaport vision is to provide a faster, better, and less expensive, means in which to procure professional support services. Seaport e strategy containing three components:

• Develop and award Multiple Award IDIQ contracts using innovative acquisition techniques to acquire professional support services.
• Exploit existing e-business opportunities and create an automated, intuitive, web-based, e-procurement portal to provide services quickly and easily.
• Create a web site continually refreshing customers and suppliers with new information, opportunities, training, metrics and useful links to associate sites.

NAVSEA has awarded multiple Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) 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 NavyÂ’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.