SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- MOBILE FORCES CBRND MODELING AND DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS
- Notice Date
- 12/9/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- 4301 Pacific Highway Bldg OT4 Code 02, San Diego CA 92110-3127
- ZIP Code
- 92110-3127
- Solicitation Number
- SPAWAR_Headquarters_MKTSVY_21D06
- Response Due
- 1/9/2004
- Point of Contact
- Point of Contact - Heidi L Radaford, Contract Specialist, 619-524-7386
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Contract Specialist
(heidi.radaford@navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1.0 Description 1.1 The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) is seeking sources for the potential development of Tools for Mobile Forces Chemical Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (CBRND) Modeling and Decision Support. 1.2 THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY. THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF SOLICITATION ISSUANCE. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes ? it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website and the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central website at https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil. It is the responsibility of the potential respondents to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this potential requirement. 1.3 Interested parties are requested to provide a written response to this RFI. Parties may include industry, government, and academic institutions. 2.0 Background 2.1 The Joint Operational Effects Federation (JOEF) is a program managed by the Joint Program Manager, Information Systems (JPM IS) within the Joint Program Executive Office (PEO) Chemical, Biological Defense (PEO-CBD). The mission of JOEF is to support planning and decision?making for Chemical Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (CBRND). For the purposes of this RFI, CBRND includes defenses against releases of toxic industrial materials (TIM). JOEF will be used for strategic, operational, and tactical planning, course of action selection, and timely decision support in both deliberate and crisis planning situations. It is to be compliant with Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system standards, and hosted on Common Operating Environment (COE) C4I networked-systems (such as the Global Command and Control System, Joint), as well as non-COE C4I networked systems (such as Command and Control Personal Computer) and non-networked workstations. 3.0 Requirement 3.1 For respondents providing information regarding development of Tools for Mobile Forces for CBRND Modeling and Decision Support, we are soliciting information regarding either: 1. Tools for mobile force CBRND analysis. Simulations and other software products applicable to the quantification of CBRN impacts on mobile military forces and ?what if? analysis for the rapid development and evaluation of alternative courses of action in response to actual or hypothetical attacks. 2. Decision support tools to assist users at fixed or mobile sites in identifying the appropriate plans, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for CBRND tasks and situations. Also tools to guide users through the execution of chosen plans and TTPs to accomplish assigned tasks, respond to CBRN and TIM events, or manage event consequences. 3.2 The JPM IS is interested in determining what products meeting the above criteria exist in the marketplace. This market-knowledge information will be used to help determine a strategy for a possible future acquisition. Upon review of submissions, JPM IS expects to request additional descriptive information in the form of a questionnaire regarding those systems with potential applicability to JOEF. Upon review of submissions, briefings and demonstrations may also be requested. However, respondents to this announcement are NOT obligated to provide any additional information, briefings, or demonstrations. Invited briefings or demonstrations may be scheduled as early as two to three weeks after white paper due date in locations designated by the program office in Washington, DC or San Diego, CA. Demonstrations will be expected, at a minimum, to provide government evaluators with an opportunity to examine the proposed system and observe its application to mobile force CBRND analysis or decision support. 3.3 With respect to CBRND analysis, this announcement invites information regarding existing models, simulations, and other tools with the potential for representing CBRN and TIM effects and associated defensive actions of mobile forces operating throughout the battle space. The tools should provide sufficient detail and flexibility to support the assessment of the workflows required to carry out these actions and operations. The tools should support rapid estimation of operational mission impacts of CBRN and TIM releases, and the effectiveness of responsive courses of action in minimizing these impacts. We are particularly interested in tools that are well documented and are currently used independently of the developer by commercial, government, or military customers. 3.4 With respect to decision support tools, this announcement invites information regarding existing software packages with the potential for use in JOEF for storing TTPs and planning documents, performing context-based searches to identify the appropriate TTPs and plans associated with user-specified tasks or operational events, and providing computer-based assistance in executing the plan or TTP. 4.0 White Paper Submissions 4.1 Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a White paper no later than 09 January 2004, 3:00 p.m. PST. 4.2 White papers submissions shall be Microsoft Office 2000 compatible or Adobe PDF format. Parties responding to this announcement shall provide the system?s name, owner, contact information, developer name, a brief description of the proposed candidate system including identification of any proprietary components, and a statement explaining why it is applicable to JOEF. There is no limit on the number of candidate systems a party can propose; however, there is a ?one-page per system" limitation. 4.3 All interested parties shall submit their inputs to Heidi Radaford, Code 02-22P, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Contract Office (4301 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92110-3127), via e-mail only at heidi.radaford@navy.mil.
- Web Link
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Click on this link to access the SPAWAR E-Commerce Central Web Site
(https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil/command/02/acq/navhome.nsf/homepage?readform&db=navbusopor.nsf&whichdoc=9A6DA4F7E6243A6C88256DF70060C60A&editflag=0)
- Record
- SN00484237-W 20031211/031209212450 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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