# AXIB II - Airborne Expendable ice Beacon (Arctic Buoys)

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/n6306125rc00bfs

- Solicitation number: N6306125RC00BFS
- Notice type: Sources sought
- Status: Closed. Deadline was August 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT
- Department: Department of the Navy
- Agency: Department of the Navy
- Contracting office: NAVSUP FLT Log CTR Norfolk (N00189)
- NAICS: 334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Product or service code: 2050 Buoys
- Place of performance: Seattle, Washington
- County: King County (FIPS 53033). https://abierto.us/counties/king-county-wa-53033
- City: Seattle. https://abierto.us/cities/seattle-wa-5363000
- First posted: August 20, 2025
- Last posted: August 20, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/056a7dc271a8435fbd24451e2660cef0/view

## Description

This is not a request for quote

Subject to FAR Clause 52.215-3, entitled "Solicitation for Information of Planning Purpose, " this announcement constitutes a Sources Sought Notice to provide Airborne Expendable Ice Beacon (AXIB) II rugged, drifting buoys that can survive the annual freeze/thaw cycles and the harsh sea ice conditions of the Seaonal Ice Zone of the Arctic and Southern oceans for the Naval Ice Center (NAVICE). This is not a solicitation announcement for quotes and no contract will be awarded from this announcement.

This does not constitute a commitment by the Government, nor will the Government pay for the information submitted in response. The Government plans to procure these as a Commercial product as defined in FAR 2.101.

**NAICS CODE:** 334513, Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables, and the Size Standard is 750 employees.

**Delivery Location:** Polar Science Center/Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA List of technical Specifications: Please reference the attached List of Technical Specifications which include the qunatity of each commercial product the Depratment of the Navy may seek to procure. The Government expects a required delivery date of 90 days from date of award. Responses to this Sources Sought request shall reference N6306125RC00CFS. Responses shall includ ethe following information in this format:

1. Company name, address, POC name, phone number and email.

2. Contractor and Government Entity (CAGE) code.

3. Size of Business - Large Business, Small Business, Small Disadvantage, 8(a), HUB-Zone, Woman-owned and/or Veteran-owned.

4. If products included in the attached List of Technical Specifications can be solicitaed from your company's GSA, SeaPort-NxG, or NASA SEWP V contract vehicle, please provide the applicable contract number.

5. Please specify if your company is an authorized reseller/dealer or similar for any of the products/brands included in the attached List of Technical Specifications. Submissions are not to exceed three (3) standard typewritten pages.

This is not a request for quote

Responses shall be emailed to Robert "Seth" Harrell at Robert.s.harrell15.civ@us.navy.mil no later than 1:00 pm EST on August 25 2025. Respondents will not be notified of results. Please note the information within this Sources Sought Notice will be updated and/or may change prior to an official synopsis/solicitation is issued, if any.

**NOTE:** Proprietary information should be clearly marked. The requested information is for planning and market research purposes only and will not be publicly released.

This is not a request for a quote

## Publications

- August 20, 2025: Sources sought, due August 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT. Notice 056a7dc271a8435fbd24451e2660cef0. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/056a7dc271a8435fbd24451e2660cef0/view

## Points of contact

- Robert Seth Harrell, robert.s.harrell15.civ@us.navy.mil, 17712293555
- Robert Babcock, robert.j.babcock25.civ@us.navy.mil, 7573541505

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