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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 19, 2008 FBO #2550
SOLICITATION NOTICE

A -- US NDC SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS

Notice Date

11/17/2008
 

Notice Type

Modification/Amendment
 

NAICS

541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services
 

Contracting Office

Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, 45CONS (Bldg 423), 1201 Edward H White II St MS 7200, Patrick AFB, Florida, 32925-3238
 

ZIP Code

32925-3238
 

Solicitation Number

US_NDC_SOURCES_SOUGHT_2008
 

Archive Date

10/15/2008
 

Point of Contact

Scott Syring, Phone: 321-494-9683, Lynn A Corley,, Phone: 321-494-5206
 

E-Mail Address

scott.syring@patrick.af.mil, lynn.corley@patrick.af.mil
 

Small Business Set-Aside

8a Competitive
 

Description

NOTIFICATION: THIS REQUIREMENT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE FOR COMPETITION AMONG 8(a) CERTIFIED FIRMS NATIONWIDE. THIS NOTIFICATION IS PROVIDED FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AND COMPANIES ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR PROVIDE ANY RESPONSE AT THIS TIME. Original Posting: This request is an announcement for information for planning purposes only. This sources sought does not constitute a Request for Proposal, Request for Quote, or Invitation for Bid. Nor does its issuance in any way restrict the Government's acquisition approach. The Air Force Technical Application Center (AFTAC) is seeking interested sources for Phase 4 (P4) of the US National Data Center (US NDC) program. The US NDC is the geophysical data acquisition, data processing, reporting and archiving component of the United States Atomic Energy Detection System (USAEDS) operated by the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC). AFTAC's mission is to monitor compliance with nuclear test ban treaties to standards set by US verification and policy leaders. This mission requires the US NDC to detect, locate and identify foreign nuclear tests and provide rapid reporting and technical assessment to the appropriate national security agencies and policy makers. The US NDC processes and integrates data and information up to and including the Department of Defense (DoD) SECRET level. The US NDC also serves as the data distribution center for all US government and authorized users for International Monitoring System (IMS) data. The focus of this phase is to add increased functionality to the current baseline, fine-tune current systems by increasing performance level, upgrade existing hardware, and sustain the present operational systems. The US NDC is an advanced geophysical data acquisition and processing system which provides the capability to receive, process, archive and report events of interest in monitoring nuclear treaty requirements. It acquires waveform data from a global network of seismic, hydroacoustic and infrasonic stations. Data is stored, distributed to researchers both internal and external to AFTAC, and reliably forwarded to a classified processing system. The US NDC receives data from the International Data Center (IDC) originating from International Monitoring System (IMS) sensors on U.S. territory and from other countries. Users interactively review, refine, correct, and display currently available results. The US NDC consists of the following components: (a) A 24x7 operations center located in the AFTAC Operations Center (AOC), Patrick AFB, FL (PAFB); (b) A 24x7 alternate (ALT) hot-backup system located at Goodfellow AFB, TX (GAFB); (c) A Training System located at the 312th Training Squadron GAFB; (d) A Remote Operations Center (ROC) located at PAFB (used to support unplanned and/or short term AOC outages, fire drills, etc.); (e) The US NDC Sustainment System (SUS, aka the test-bed) and (f) the US NDC Development System (DEVL), both located at AFTAC/PAFB. Current System Parameters include the following: 1) Hardware: SUN SPARC-based servers and workstations, Storage area network drives, LTO3 tape archives 2) Software: Solaris 8 & 10, Oracle 10g 3) Code: C, C++, FORTRAN, PERL, Scheme, SQL, Lisp, ASM, CSH, Java, Makefile, SH, TCL, YACC The operational US NDC hardware (OPS, Alt, Training System, and Remote Operations Center) along with most of the development/sustainment hardware is and will continue to be maintained through a separate AFTAC maintenance support contract. Contractor responsibility will include the development and integration of a total system including ongoing upgrades, advanced geophysical studies and tuning/optimization of software algorithms. All personnel must have a Secret clearance and all key personnel must have a Top Secret (SCI) clearance. A majority of the work will be done within the AFTAC building at Patrick AFB, FL. Therefore, the contractor must have or establish a facility in Florida and have key personnel available to work within AFTAC. Examples of new and ongoing US NDC development and sustainment items include, but are not limited to the following: 1) One of the primary objectives of the Phase 4 effort is to provide a software and hardware architecture with implementation which will provide the platform for future system growth and enhancements. The functionality shall maintain and enhance existing data acquisition, detection, association, location, magnitude/yield estimation, event classification, event reporting, data distribution, and data archiving capabilities to meet current and future treaty monitoring needs as specified in the US NDC System Requirements Document (SRD). 2) A second major objective of the P4 effort is to make use of modern, object-oriented (OO) software design and development practices to re-architect the US NDC's legacy source code/software baseline that has evolved over the past 15+ years. The most immediate need/target is the interactive analysis tool suite. 3) Integration of 3rd party efforts: The Department of Energy (DoE) and Air Force labs, as well as various government contractors are involved in numerous areas of US NDC development. Some examples are: portions of the knowledge base, event classification methodology, and Geographical Information System (GIS). It will be the prime contractor's responsibility to team with these AFTAC partners and integrate their products. 4) The US NDC contractor is responsible for providing Total System Integration Responsibility (TSIR) for the US NDC. The US NDC contractor is responsible for integration of hardware, COTS/GOTS software and calibration information, and contractor developed software into the US NDC system. 5) The US NDC contractor is responsible for providing 24x7 on call support to insure 99% operational availability rate. 6) The US NDC contractor participates as a key member of the US NDC Change Management Board (CMB) to insure the US NDC will continue to meet the operational availability requirements. The CMB oversees the US NDC Change Request (CR) process and prioritizes O&M work which includes but is not limited to software bug fixes and minor enhancements, adding new stations to data acquisition and both station and network processing. 7) Studies a) Conduct scientific studies to help improve detection, association, location, magnitude/yield estimation and event classification to meet current and future treaty monitoring needs. b) Conduct engineering and IT infrastructure studies (e.g., hardware, software, databases) to help improve overall system performance and help reduce maintenance costs and man power needs. All applicable upgrades to the US NDC shall also be made to the training system, and to the Alt US NDC, both of which are located at Goodfellow AFB TX. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL SUBMISSION. It is a market research tool to determine the availability and adequacy of potential sources. Interested parties responding to this announcement shall provide a point of contact, their company's Cage Code, and indicate their company's business size (i.e. large, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBzone, small disadvantaged business, 8(a), or woman-owned small business) in relation to NAICS Code 541511, size standard $25 million. The Government reserves the right to set this action aside for a type of small business concern. Interested parties are invited to submit a Statement of Capabilities (SOC) to the Government for evaluation in response to this announcement in accordance with Numbered Note 25 (see below Numbered Notes). In addition to Numbered Note 25, the following must, as a minimum, be addressed in your SOC: 1) -Is your intent in responding to this synopsis to be a prime, or a subcontractor? 2) -List all relevant Government contracts by contract number and title. Provide a brief overview of the contracted effort and indicate if the effort performed under each contract was as the prime contractor or as a subcontractor. 3) -List geophysicist and other key personnel available to perform at Patrick AFB, FL in support of this type of effort. 4) -Do you have documented internal processes for Configuration Management and Quality Assurance? 5) List any current certification held by your company. (ex: ISO) 6) Address experience using Earned Value Management techniques for cost, schedule and performance reporting on current contracts. Identify which EVM system is used and if system has been validated by DCMA. Numbered Note 25: Information submitted should be pertinent and specific in the technical area under consideration, on each of the following qualifications: (1) Experience: An outline of previous projects, specific work previously performed or being performed and any in-house research and development effort; (2) Personnel: Name, professional qualifications and specific experience of scientist, engineers and technical personnel who may be assigned as a principal investigator and/or project officer; (3) Facilities: Availability and description of special facilities required to perform in the technical areas under consideration. A statement regarding industry security clearance. Any other specific and pertinent information as pertains to this particular area of procurement that would enhance our consideration and evaluation of the information submitted.Please limit SOC responses to a maximum of fifteen (15) total pages. Minimum font shall be 12 point. The SOC shall be submitted in an Acrobat readable format via email. Interested parties may also submit via the US Postal Service a single CD/DVD containing additional information related to company background, experience, contracts, key personnel resumes, EVM, etc. Routine communications concerning this announcement should be directed to the point of contact listed below. The due date for receipt of email responses to this announcement is September 30, 2008, 1600 EDT. Interested companies are requested to submit their responses electronically (via e-mail) to scott.syring@patrick.af.mil with a copy to lynn.corley@patrick.af.mil. The point of contact for this announcement is Mr. Scott Syring, Contract Specialist, 45 CONS/LGCCA, 1030 South Highway A1A, Bldg 989, Patrick AFB, FL 32925-3002, (321) 494-9683. The alternate point of contact for this announcement is Ms Lynn Corley, Contracting Officer, 45 CONS/LGCCA, 1030 South Highway A1A, Bldg 989, Patrick AFB, FL 32925-3002, (321) 494-5206 THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT ON THE BASIS OF THIS SYNOPSIS, NOR TO OTHERWISE PAY FOR THE INFORMATION SOLICITED IN THIS DISCUSSION.
 

Web Link

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Place of Performance

Address: 1030 South Highway A1A, Building 989, Patrick AFB, Florida, 32925-3002, United States

Zip Code: 32925-3002
 

Record

SN01705977-W 20081119/081117215245-5eb0109289156ec47ff2ff357c4f56ac (fbodaily.com)
 

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