Micro USA is proud to be a part of the Navy program that is streamlining the process of federal acquisition of contract work from private companies. The framework unifies the format of all contracts issued to existing contractors in addition to managing established contracts with progress monitoring standards. This program will allow the Navy to manage and select projects and contractors based on the criteria that manage most: quality, speed, and efficiency.

The Seaport Enhanced contract is five year contract to provide professional support services for the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUSC), headquarters, and its field activities.

Seaport-e offers many improvements over past contract-awarding structures:
 
Potential for a fifteen (15) year contract
- Each indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) multiple award contract (MAC) is for a base of five (5) years with two five (5) year options which allow for long-term partnerships. Award term provisions
- Award term provisions allow a task order to be as long in duration as the IDIQ contracts themselves, provided specific criteria, which may include prices remaining reasonable and quality being maintained, are met. The award term provisions can be issued at the task order level to allow for long term partnerships between the customer and industry. Guaranteed savings clause
- A guaranteed savings clause which guarantees a minimum savings rate for those task orders for repetitive services that extend beyond one (1) year and convert from cost type to fixed price are included in the contract of each of the twenty-one (21) MAC teams. This provides an excellent tool for headquarters Directorates, Program Executive Offices (PEOs) and field activities to demonstrate quantifiable cost savings. Pass through escalation and profit on cost contracts caps
- Each of MAC team has agreed to a maximum pass through escalation and profit for CPFF task orders. The actual bid on a task order is likely to be less than the maximum offered due to the competition of the task orders. Conversion to performance based task orders
- Contractors may propose the accomplishment of the effort in performance-based terms in the option years of a task order. The performance-based plan submitted by the contractor will ensure the same or higher quality level of support at reduced prices.
 
Focus on quality
- Through the establishment of an electronic "issue resolution desk" (IRD) within the SeaPort e-procurement portal, quality is measured on a real time basis and contractor quality issues are immediately addressed. Fully electronic Task Order Process (including electronic signature)
- From the desktop, managers can initiate a Task Order, accept and evaluate proposals and award a task order through the web-based Seaport portal. Ombudsman for resolving disputes
- In an effort to maintain partnerships and to keep disputes out of the court system, an Ombudsman has been established to objectively and expeditiously evaluate and resolve complaints of fairness from the contractors.
 
Seaport-e contracts includes three main contract line item numbers (CLINs). CLIN 0001 is the line item that is used to accommodate the procurement of services on a cost-plus fixed fee (CPFF) basis, a cost-plus award fee basis (CPAF), and/or a cost-plus incentive fee (CPIF) basis. CLIN 0002 is the line item used to accommodate the procurement of services on a fixed-price basis. CLIN 0003 is the line item that is used to accommodate the procurement of associated other direct costs (ODCs) such as travel on a "Cost Only" basis. Option CLINs corresponding to CLINs 0001, 0002, and 0003 also exist in the MAC contracts. In some cases, with options and various types of money, sub-line item numbers (SLINs) may be used under a CLIN.

MicroUSA handles three of the seven zones of Seaport-e:

Zone 2 (Washington, D.C. Area)

Zone 3 (Middle East Coast States)

Zone 6 (Southwestern States)

Read more about Seaport-e from the U.S. Navy.