Scoring Purpose
The TriSeadon points matrix provides a single, auditable scoring system for yard operators and contractors across GOGO, GOCO, and COCO participation tracks.
- Score each hull, major module, and certified delivery package as its own counted performance event.
- Reward on-time, on-budget, and high-quality execution.
- Penalize late, over-budget, and non-compliant performance.
- Link scores directly to bid eligibility, workshare, and expansion authority.
- Incentivize cross-training and workforce portability across yards and contractors.
Contractor Control Baseline
- New TriSeadon development RFPs require government ownership or equivalent perpetual controlling rights in foreground IP and a reproducible production package; privately funded legacy background IP is not confiscated.
- No more than 3 major new technologies are inserted per ship cycle/flight.
- 5-year refit windows and planned flight roadmap are mandatory planning assumptions for all contractors.
- No stakeholder or capability change after production award. Only verified defect, safety, cybersecurity, physical or information security, legal or regulatory compliance, or unavailable-part form-fit-function action may enter through configuration authority.
What Performance Points Control
Points create consequences inside the funded program; they do not appropriate money. A strong score earns priority among qualified sources and supports exercise of authorized options, additional workshare, future competitions, and yard opportunities. A poor score triggers corrective action, work withdrawal, or operator replacement.
Program continuity is judged separately at the fleet level. When independently verified need, affordability, delivery, quality, industrial-capacity, cleanup, workforce, and ROI gates remain satisfied, the Navy carries a minimum viable TriSeadon rate in its program and budget submission. Congress retains the decision to authorize and appropriate funds.
Points Bands
Cost, schedule, quality, module delivery, and training are scored as separate ledger entries. Points accumulate across the program, with graduated consequences at +50, -50, -75, -100, and -125. A contractor cannot use an early or inexpensive delivery to erase a quality failure on the same event.
Hull Cost Score
| Score | Condition | Measurement Rule |
|---|---|---|
| +10 | Final accepted hull cost is more than 5% below the authorized target | Scope, quantity, and acceptance requirements must remain unchanged |
| 0 | Final accepted hull cost is from 5% under through 3% over target | In-budget tolerance band |
| -10 | Final accepted hull cost is more than 3% over target | Corrective cost analysis required |
Hull Schedule Score
| Score | Condition | Class Delivery Gate |
|---|---|---|
| +10 | Accepted at or before the early-delivery incentive gate | FFG 20 months; DDG 38 months; CAG 48 months |
| 0 | Accepted after the incentive gate but no more than 9 calendar days after the contractual delivery date | FFG 24 months; DDG 48 months; CAG 60 months |
| -10 | Accepted 10 or more calendar days after the contractual delivery date | Schedule-cause and recovery review required |
Baseline protection: scoring uses the government-approved target cost, scope, and contractual delivery date after signed change orders. Government-caused delay, directed scope growth, force majeure, or an approved supply-continuity exception does not count against the contractor. A contractor cannot earn underrun or early-delivery points by deleting scope, deferring defects, moving unfinished work past acceptance, or using an unapproved baseline change.
Hull Quality Score
- 0: accepted at the required QA gate without a scored rejection.
- Provisional -10: a scored QA rejection is posted when the hull or major delivery fails acceptance.
- Adjusted to -5: the defect is corrected, independently verified, and reaccepted within 30 calendar days.
- Remains -10: correction and reacceptance require 31-90 calendar days.
- -20 total: the defect remains unresolved after 90 days; a focused enforcement and work-transfer assessment begins. A formal PIE proceeding begins when the cumulative contractor ledger reaches -75, unless a separate safety, fraud, legal, or suspension authority requires earlier action.
- Safety, fraud, falsified records, cybersecurity, environmental, or deliberate concealment violations can bypass the normal cure bands and proceed directly to enforcement.
Hull Final-Acceptance Credit
- +10: awarded once for each completed ship after final USN acceptance and closure of every acceptance-blocking deficiency.
- Conditional delivery, custody transfer, launch, sea-trial entry, or delivery with an unresolved acceptance-blocking defect does not earn the credit.
- The acceptance credit does not erase cost, schedule, QA, safety, fraud, cybersecurity, or environmental penalties. An accepted ship that is both late and over budget therefore scores +10 -10 -10 = -10 before any separate QA or compliance entry.
Certified Module and Equipment-Package Scores
A scoring unit is one complete, serialized, contract-defined package that passes its required DLA and USN acceptance gates. Contractors may not split internal components, consoles, pumps, or subassemblies into extra scoring events. A clean module can earn no more than +15: +5 for final acceptance, +5 for early delivery, and +5 for delivery more than 5% under budget.
Qualifying Deliverables
- Mission and weapon modules: ISO mission modules, Integrated Mission Modules (IMM), and Integrated Weapon Modules (IWM).
- Power and propulsion packages: LM2500+G4 GT-Gen sleds, Fairbanks Morse Defense diesel-generator sleds, AEGIR distribution sleds or panels, and other contract-defined replaceable power packages.
- Combat-system packages: complete Cerberus-mounted CIWS, missile, or directed-energy packages.
- Boats: each completed Admiral's Launch or Swift boat accepted as an operational craft.
- Ship-service and habitability packages: completed fuel-tank modules, potable-water tank modules, water-maker skids, air-conditioning or chilled-water units, ATLAS berthing-outfit shipsets, and other contract-defined equipment packages. Complete rooms do not earn module-delivery points.
- Command packages: one complete 12-console ONE Consul package, including the contracted hardware, controls, integration kit, and acceptance documentation.
| Category | Positive | Neutral | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final acceptance | +5 after complete DLA/USN acceptance | 0 while incomplete, conditionally delivered, or awaiting acceptance | No delivery penalty by itself; cost, schedule, QA, and compliance entries remain separate |
| Cost | +5 when more than 5% under target after acceptance | 0 from 5% under through 3% over | -10 when more than 3% over target |
| Schedule | +5 when at least 20% ahead of the contractual duration | 0 through the contractual date and 9-day grace period | -10 when 10 or more calendar days late |
| Quality | No separate positive score; final acceptance provides the +5 completion credit | 0 when accepted without a scored rejection | -5 for failed acceptance or scored rework, with further enforcement for an unresolved defect |
Examples: an accepted module that is both early and more than 5% under budget earns +15. An accepted module that is both late and more than 3% over budget scores +5 -10 -10 = -15 before any separate QA or compliance penalty.
A module QA failure may post an additional -5 if it remains unresolved after 90 days or causes a shipyard critical-path delay. Acceptance points and final payment are not released until DLA and Navy acceptance records are complete.
Cross-Training Credits
Training credits are intentionally smaller than hull and module execution scores. They act as constant national modifiers that reward a yard for sending people out, receiving students, and keeping qualified teams in circulation across the country.
- Contractors and yards earn positive credits for certifying workers from other yards and partner contractors.
- Trainer credit: sending a qualified trainer to another yard or contractor lane earns +3 points per trainer assignment.
- Student credit: accepting and graduating a cross-yard student trainee earns +2 points per student completion.
- Retention credit: retaining the trainer or the qualified student for at least 1 full year after the exchange earns +1 additional point per retained person.
- No-trainer penalty: a contractor that sends no qualified trainer during a rolling 12-month period receives -3 points.
- No-student penalty: a contractor that accepts or graduates no cross-yard student during a rolling 12-month period receives -2 points.
- Non-retention penalty: each program-trained employee who is not retained for 12 months after qualification produces -1 point, excluding documented voluntary separation, retirement, mobilization, disability, death, or government-directed transfer.
- Exchange intent: a COCO contractor sending trainers into GOGO or GOCO yards, or a GOCO contractor sending trainers into COCO yards, is scored as a program-strengthening action rather than a loss of local labor.
- Cross-yard credential throughput is scored as part of performance and resilience readiness.
- Students and trainers are expected to travel continuously between states, yards, and contractor lanes so the national workforce is always teaching, learning, and backfilling surge demand.
- Cross-training points can improve bid weighting but do not override severe schedule/cost failures.
Threshold Rules
- +49 to -49: points remain visible in the ledger but do not change allocation priority. Normal source-selection, option, and oversight rules continue.
- +50: the contractor enters priority standing for the next qualified build, module allocation, option, or yard-opening competition. Priority is an evaluation preference among technically qualified and legally eligible bidders, not an automatic sole-source award.
- -50: the contractor enters formal corrective action, loses expansion priority, and receives no automatic new workshare while a government-approved recovery plan is evaluated.
- -75: a formal Performance Improvement and Enforcement (PIE) proceeding begins. New awards, options, and discretionary new starts are frozen while independent teams audit quality, cost, schedule, staffing, safety, records, tooling, and root causes.
- -100: contractor jobs and work packages are withdrawn and reassigned to qualified positive-score contractors. Transfers follow a government-directed continuity plan covering configuration control, technical data, government-furnished property, tooling, workforce access, safety, payment closeout, and uninterrupted critical production.
- -125: the contractor is removed from its GOCO operating space or spaces and replaced through an expedited, legally compliant operator-selection action. The government retains the facility, equipment, records, and production baseline; removal does not transfer ownership of the GOCO yard.
- PIE recovery: before -100, a contractor may exit PIE after root causes are corrected, facilities and records pass independent audit, cure requirements close, and the contracting authority approves restart. At or below -100, restoration requires completion of the reassignment action and a new responsibility determination; at -125, any later return requires a new competition rather than automatic reinstatement.
Due-process and emergency rule: point thresholds do not replace federal suspension, debarment, safety, fraud, cybersecurity, environmental, labor, or national-security authorities. Those authorities may require immediate protective action before a numerical threshold is reached. Conversely, removal or reassignment must preserve worker safety, evidence, government property, technical records, and fleet-production continuity.
Quarterly Ledger Audit
The cumulative point ledger governs the +50, -50, -75, -100, and -125 actions. A quarterly Vendor Performance Score remains a management dashboard for diagnosing why the ledger is moving, but it does not replace or override posted points.
- Schedule adherence: 40% weight.
- Cost versus target: 25% weight.
- First-pass quality / rework rate: 20% weight.
- Safety and compliance: 5% weight.
- Supply-chain and GFE readiness handoff: 10% weight.
Quarterly Review Bands
- Green (>= 90): no dashboard-level corrective action; point-threshold rules still govern priority.
- Yellow (80-89): management review and corrective-action tracking; no automatic point change.
- Red (< 80): focused audit and cure-plan review; allocation changes occur only when the cumulative ledger or a separate safety/legal authority triggers them.
Carrots and Sticks (Execution Clauses)
- Carrot: award-term and option growth for sustained Green performance.
- Carrot: schedule-incentive bonuses (capped) for early technical delivery milestones.
- Carrot: learning-curve share when audited labor-hour reductions beat target.
- Stick: FPIF sharelines and ceilings with fee erosion for major overruns.
- Stick: progress-payment withholds tied to failed QA gates.
- Stick: liquidated damages for critical-path slip and cure-notice escalation.
- Stick: corrective action at -50, PIE at -75, controlled work withdrawal at -100, and GOCO operator replacement at -125 without abandoning safety, configuration control, government property, or production continuity.
Contracting discipline: no engineering-change insertion after first steel cut unless safety/security or supply continuity exception is certified.