SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- D-Open Source Intelligence Service
- Notice Date
- 2/21/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard (USCG), Commandant (G-ACS), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second St., SW, Washington, DC, 20593-0001
- ZIP Code
- 20593-0001
- Solicitation Number
- DTCG23-02-Q-HCB002
- Response Due
- 3/1/2002
- Archive Date
- 3/16/2002
- Point of Contact
- Yolanda Bell, Contract Specialist, Phone 202-267-6206, Fax 202-267-4019, - Brenda Peterson, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 267-6906, Fax (202) 267-4019,
- E-Mail Address
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ybell@comdt.uscg.mil, bpeterson@comdt.uscg.mil
- Description
- NOTICE OF INTENT: The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) intends to award a sole source contract to Intellibridge Corporation of Washington, DC for Open-Source Intelligence Services (OSIS). The USCG requirement is for a rapid pilot program that implements a Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Open-Source Intelligence Service (OSIS) capability, which would assist in the challenges of information overload, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. SYNOPSIS AND SOLICITATION: This acquisition is being conducted under the Test Program for Certain Commercial Items in accordance with FAR Subpart 13.5. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The solicitation number is DTCG23-02-Q-HCB002, which is a request for quotation (RFQ). The solicitation incorporates provisions and clauses that are in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2001-04. NAICS code is 514191. Small Business size standard is $18M. This is an unrestricted solicitation. The requirement consists of the following items: Item (1) OSIS subscription for the period of March 25, 2002 through September 7, 2002, quantity 1 lot (maximum number of users 75). Optional Item (2) OSIS subscription for the period of September 8, 2002 through February 22, 2003, quantity 1 lot (maximum number of users 75). Required delivery is March 25, 2002. Deliver to U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001. Acceptance and FOB are at destination. No government furnished items will be provided for this contract. The contractor shall furnish everything necessary to perform all technical services, supervision, personnel, labor, materials, and equipment required under this contract. The OSIS shall be capable of meeting specific tasks in five categories: sources of information used in the tasks; reports delivered; internet capabilities exploited to perform the tasks; technological capability, including ?intelligent agents? that can act on behalf of the user (an intelligent agent is a software program that executes locally on the user?s machine, performing tasks on the user?s behalf without explicit instructions issued by the user); and access requirements. Performance of these tasks will require specific technical capabilities in the vendor?s organization, from the perspective of staff expertise, and also applied technology. The described tasking assumes that the vendor uses these organizational and technical capabilities in performing the required tasks. The vendor shall provide access to the OSIS and shall perform customization in accordance with the following statement of work. The OSIS shall meet the following criteria: (1) sources of information shall be domestic and international, including: print, radio, television, Internet, and personal contact; (2) the OSIS shall include professionals who are experienced in the intelligence community, or in specific technical areas such as counter-terrorism, Mid-East affairs, counter-drug, or Latin-American affairs; (3) sources of intelligence shall not be vendor?s analysts; (4) the vendor shall provide experienced subject matter experts; and (5) the OSIS shall be an interactive environment within which users will be able to contact the vendor analysts with specific questions and requests for further information. The OSIS shall provide reports to the user that: (1) can be provided electronically via Email; (2) can be provided via secure/private customized website; (3) can be provided on a daily or weekly basis, as preferred or defined by the user; (4) are non-standard, not conforming to standard report formats or search criteria, and meet special research requests by users; (5) can allow the ability to follow-up with inquiries of varying priority; (6) and can allow customer contact with source of information providing extenuating circumstances do not prevent such contact. The OSIS shall provide the following internet capabilities: (1) customization of the website to the customer?s areas of interest; (2) permit the user to customize the website to viewing preferences, providing an open-source intelligence information service; (3) enable the Website to provide enhanced security to protect the customer?s specific research interests from scrutiny by anyone other than the customer; (4) provide the capability to establish secured communities of interest, which could be implemented as shared file spaces, threaded discussion groups, or chat rooms; (5) permit the customer to add shared voice/video, shared on-screen applications, or shared whiteboards; (6) include indexing services that index and automatically categorize open-source websites in many languages, including but not limited to English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic/Farsi, Russian, Japanese, Korean; (7) allow customized categorization to customers and their specific needs; and (8) allow for categorization to not be solely dependant on meta-tag assignments by the customer or by administrators. The OSIS shall provide users the following technological capabilities: (1) an option to install an intelligent agent in the customer?s browser, permitting background queries and automated analysis on behalf of the customer, without the customer needing to formulate an explicit query (this agent would be able to draw to the customer?s attention, without explicit prompting from the customer, to background information relevant to the customer?s on-screen work at any given moment); (2) allow the intelligent agent to be capable of indexing information stored on the customer?s local disk; (3) allow for the local index to be stored on the customer?s local disk; (4) allow the user to tune the index to designated files or folders contained on the customer?s local disk; (5) allow the user?s intelligent agent to gather/process information from a variety of file formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe portable document format (PDF), and flat files; (6) allow the intelligent agent to index (also to the local disk) the files and attached files contained in designated Outlook client folders (these could be multiple ?.pst? files) within the customer?s Outlook client; (7) allow the intelligent agent to be capable of dynamically profiling the customer?s interests, and passing those interests to the public website, while protecting the customer?s anonymity; (8) allow intelligent agent to be capable of interacting with the public website and offer the customer the option of joining a community of users who have similar interests; (9) protect the customer?s anonymity at all times; and (10) provide compatibility with COTS security technologies that are scalable in strength, as for example with 128-bit PKI encryption, triple-DES, smart-cards, or biometrics. Access to OSIS shall include the following: (1) the OSIS shall be available during the hours of 6am-6pm Eastern Standard Time, 365 days a year, subject to CG system availability, internet congestion or technological constraints outside the control of the vendor or CG; (2) and the OSIS shall be an interactive environment within which users will be able to contact the vendor analysts with specific questions and requests for further information. The following FAR Subpart 12 provisions and clauses are incorporated by reference: FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors ? Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-2, Evaluation ? Commercial Items (a) [The following factors shall be used to evaluate offers: technical capability, past performance and price. Technical capability and past performance, when combined are more important than price],(b), (c); FAR 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications ? Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions ? Commercial Items; FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders ? Commercial Items 52.212-5 (a), (b)(1), (5), (11)-(15), (24), (d), (e). The proposed contract action is for services or supplies for which the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source. Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit quotations. The USCG reserves the right to request product demonstrations. Quotes must be received by 2:00 PM EST on March 01, 2002 and should be e-mailed (any attachments should be in Word, Rich Text Format, or PDF and must not exceed 2MB) to ybell@comdt.uscg.mil and bpeterson@comdt.uscg.mil, or faxed to 202-267-4475, Attn: Brenda Peterson. NOTICE TO OFFERORS?SOLICITATION OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM It is the policy of the Coast Guard to issue solicitations and make contract awards in a fair and timely manner. To further this policy, the Commandant has created the position of Solicitation Ombudsman who is empowered to investigate issues raised by prospective offerors and resolve them, where possible, without expensive and time-consuming litigation. Potential offerors who believe that a Coast Guard solicitation is unfair or otherwise defective should first direct their concerns to the cognizant contracting officer. If the contracting officer is unable to satisfy the concerns, the offeror should then contact the Coast Guard Solicitation Ombudsman at the following address: Commandant (G-CPM-S/3), 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, DC 20593-0001, FAX: 202-267-4011. For information regarding this synopsis/solicitation, please telephone Ms. Brenda Peterson at 202-267-6906.
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