SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Critical Chain Multi-Project Management
- Notice Date
- 9/6/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 2272 Suite 353 47123 Buse Road, Patuxent River, MD, 20670
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00421-02-R-0289
- Point of Contact
- Criss Cullison, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 757-9057, Fax 301-757-2628,
- E-Mail Address
-
cullisoncm@navair.navy.mil
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price contract to purchase Commercial Off The Shelf critical chain multi-project management software, along with installation, training, implementation, and maintenance support. The primary project categories are aircraft, engines and components. Projects are created to provide for the repair and overhaul of Department of Defense aircraft and the return of these aircraft to the Depots' customers. Projects consist of and are developed around discrete and well-defined groups of work, and range in duration from a few weeks to just less than a year. The overall goal is to reduce cycle time for major programs at the depot by implementing Theory of Constraints (TOC) methodology. To do this, a critical chain multi-project management solution to meet management needs in the following areas is required: Project, Resource and Task Scheduling: Set feasible schedules, accounting for material and capacity constraints; hold schedules stable despite the high variability of maintenance, repair and overhaul work; set unambiguous and uniform priorities across projects and resources in real time; Management Control over Schedule Execution and Performance: Make efficient use of capacity and time buffers in execution; establish an effective and efficient process of ongoing improvement; and Optimization: Do what-ifs to optimize project cycle times, capacity utilization and product mix. The solution must operate successfully within the constraints of the depot operating environment. At a minimum, NAVAIR intends to purchase one enterprise site license (unlimited use) for its depot at Cherry Point, NC, with the option to purchase up to two additional licenses for its depots at Jacksonville, FL, and North Island, CA, supporting both internal and external users. This term of the contract is one base year plus four options. On-site support is required at the Naval Air Depot, Naval Air Station, Cherry Point, NC, with options for the Naval Air Depots at Jacksonville, FL, and North Island, CA. The price of the enterprise license shall include commercial software documentation, installation, and a 12-month warranty. The Government, as owner of the license, will designate authorized users of the software at the sites and may include Government or Government Contractor Support personnel. The software shall meet the following Scheduling requirements: Translate buffer status into "effective buffer consumption" for each task, i.e., how much is the net impact of each task on project and milestone buffers; capability to schedule single and multiple projects using critical chain methodology; automatic diagnosis of errors in project networks related to project network construction and resource assignment; establish a project baseline for one aircraft and many in-process aircraft at the same time with capability to re-baseline; critical chain automated buffering that allows the longest chain of dependent activities in a project to be buffered against statistical fluctuations; incorporate material and other supply constraints in critical chain calculations; link events in multiple projects, with automatic synchronization of schedules across projects; model multi-skilled workforce through organization of capacity data in "logical skills" hierarchy, with no limit on the number of levels in hierarchy; constraints-based pipelining that allows multiple projects to be capacity tested, and staggered through the pipeline; constraints based pipelining finds the best possible project due date based on user specified constraining resources and project priorities; provision for variable capacity in constraints-based pipelining, with number of units and calendars varying over time; specify and account for protective capacity for resources in constraints-based pipelining over course of planning horizon; concurrent scheduling of multiple resource constraints (drums) in constraints-based pipelining; automatically calculates and identifies resource contention within a project when calculating buffer consumption; ability to determine tasks that are consuming buffer using bi-directional pegging of buffers (project, feeding, milestone and project-to-project) and tasks?all buffers that are affected by a task, and all tasks that can consume a given buffer; task priorities are set for each resource based on "effective buffer consumption" to ensure global coordination of schedules; when networks are modified to account for additions and/or changes in repair requirements recalculations of critical chain and re-placement of buffers are not required; calculate buffer consumption accurately even if tasks are executed out of sequence; globally set of buffer management flags based on depot business policies; and ability to efficiently handle a minimum of 500 individual unique projects with a minimum of 300 tasks per project across multiple product lines. The software shall meet the following Management Control requirements: Project Managers can monitor buffer consumption for their projects; present to Project Managers not only the tasks eating into the buffers, but also a list of downstream tasks with multiple sorting options so that they can analyze buffer consumption and create buffer recovery plans; project Managers can capture and monitor recovery actions in the system, and also track delta in buffer consumption between buffer recovery meetings to improve the effectiveness of buffer recovery plans; Resource Managers can identify emerging bottlenecks before they occur; present to Resource Managers a chart for tasks in their department, clearly highlighting when workload will exceed available capacity; Resource Managers can assign named (people, equipment and resources) with required capabilities from the chart schedule; Task Leads get a prioritized list of current as well as upcoming tasks, along with their "effective buffer consumption"; Task Leads get advance warning about supply constraints and their impact on project and milestone buffers; historical analysis of buffer consumption by resources, by task manager and by projects; output data from the software shall be exportable to and compatible with Microsoft Project 2000. The software shall meet the following Optimization requirements: Pipeline drill-downs and what-ifs for setting project priorities and sequence based on customer due dates and constraint schedules; project drill-downs and what-ifs for trade-off among scope, resources and cycle time; project planning tools to analyze slack and buffers, and refine/redistribute buffers without causing critical chain to be recomputed; provide resource drill-downs that support the development of what if scenarios and assist in making decisions about hiring, cross-training, adding and reducing capacity, and pooling of resources among product lines. The software shall meet the following Automation requirements: Information can be submitted and processed in real time; reports are live (and not static reports that have to be manually published); Project Managers can submit projects to, and check out projects from, the central database over the web without an intermediary; Task Leads can update remaining duration and task status directly into the central database over the web; Task Leads have facility to maintain local checklists over the web without having to interact with project networks; buffer management runs can be set to execute automatically at pre-specified intervals, without locking up the entire database; buffer management results are automatically compiled into management reports across all projects; buffer management reports are available live over the web using an open systems architecture; user privileges can be set centrally, for individuals as well as a class of users, to provide different levels of access to different roles. The software shall meet the following Technical requirements: Utilization of Open Systems Architecture; ability to store information on projects, tasks and resources in a single database; utilization of industry standard open web server architecture such as ORACLE, APACHE and/or SQL database servers in an n-tiered environment; e.g., web, application and database servers; ability to access the application via the web through secure socket layer (https); compatibility with MS Internet Explorer 5.5 w/SP1 or higher; ability to fully support LDAP or NT Authentication; ability to support existing server Operating System Windows NT 4.0 or higher, and existing client Operating System Windows 2000 or the Web; ability to operate within a secure environment from both within and outside firewall applications. The Contractor shall provide functional and technical on-site support throughout the training and implementation phases. Contractor support shall take place at the Government site. While on a Government site, contractor personnel shall observe the same holiday schedule and shall work the same hours as the Government personnel. The Contractor shall train the NAVAIR Depot enterprise on the installation, configuration, operation and support of the provided TOC software tool. The training shall occur immediately prior to implementation at each site. The Contractor shall provide a training plan, outlining their recommended approach. The training plan will be approved by the Government prior to execution of training. The Contractor shall provide enough training material for each student. Training will be conducted at a Government provided location (TBD) at or near the Government site. Class size will vary depending on the training course. Maximum class size for any given session requiring access to the application is 12 to 15. Types of training by function and estimated number of trainees are: System Installation (5); System Administration (3); Role specific training (including 3 Government train-the-trainers): Core Team (20); Project Manager (7); Master Scheduler (5); Resource Manager (7); Task Managers (30); and Executive Workshop (25); Business Process design support (10); and Project network modeling support (10). The Contractor shall provide on-site consultation providing technical and functional support for a period of eight weeks. The Contractor's on-site consultant(s) shall be a Subject Matter Expert on the product and have proven experience implementing TOC in a Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) or like environment. At a minimum, one on-site consultant shall be required for the duration of the implementation to provide coaching on software configuration, organizational roles and responsibilities, management processes, and data modeling. The Contractor shall provide annually renewable software maintenance consisting of regular application upgrades, correction of software errors, and access to a toll-free a help desk. The Help Desk shall be available 24 hours/day, 7 days a week, to provide functional and technical application support. Interested parties may submit proposals in accordance with the solicitation, which has been posted with this synopsis. Proposals must be received by 2:30 pm EST on 23 September 2002. The NAICS code is 511210, with an SBA size standard limit of $21 million. Any questions regarding this solicitation should be forwarded Michele Glampe, NAVAIR Contracts, AIR-2.5.1.5.1.3, 21983 Bundy Road, Unit 7, Building 441, Patuxent River, MD 20760-1127, 301-757-9054, glampemr@navair.navy.mil, or Criss Cullison at 301-757-9058, cullisoncm@navair.navy.mil. The solicitation can be obtained from the NAVAIR website at http://navair.navy.mil/business/ecommerce/index.ctm.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Naval Air Depot, Naval Air Station Cherry Point, Cherry Point, NC
- Zip Code: 28533-0021
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 28533-0021
- Record
- SN00160196-W 20020908/020906213929 (fbodaily.com)
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