SEAPORT Enhanced (SEAPORTe)
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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 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. This unified approach allows SeaPort-e service
procurement teams to leverage their best work products, practices, & approaches across the Navy's
critical service business sector.
Simply stated, SeaPort-e provides a faster, better, & more cost-effective means of contracting for
professional support services.
The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) procures over a half billion dollars of Professional Support
Services (PSS) each year for its headquarters' Directorates, Program Executive Offices (PEOs), and
field activities. In order to meet the Navy strategic sourcing wedge, NAVSEA committed to $250M in
savings by procuring PSS more efficiently. Coupled with this need, the Office of the Secretary of
Defense (OSD) directed that 50% of all support services be procured using performance based
contracting by the year 2005. Furthermore, NAVSEA had more than 450 separate PSS contracts
supporting its requirements. Most of these efforts were not integrated from a Command perspective,
utilized a multitude of different processes in which to procure the services, and did not leverage
corporate buying habits or e-business to facilitate the processes. In addition, the services were
predominantly procured via level of effort vice performance-based terms.
NAVSEA established the SeaPort Office to meet these the NAVSEA strategic sourcing wedge and the
OSD performance based contracting directive while bringing order to NAVSEA PSS acquisitions. The
vision was to provide a faster, better, and cheaper means in which to procure PSS.
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