SOURCES SOUGHT
B -- Sources Sought Notice for Biometric/Identity intelligence systems enhancement engineering, development, and operations and maintenance support to NGIC
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- National Ground Intelligence Center, ATTN: IANG-CS-LO/MS204, 2055 Boulders Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911-8318
- ZIP Code
- 22911-8318
- Solicitation Number
- W911W5BXDEV
- Response Due
- 7/9/2010
- Archive Date
- 9/7/2010
- Point of Contact
- Jessica Winn, 434-951-1653
- E-Mail Address
-
National Ground Intelligence Center
(jessica.winn@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE ONLY. This request for information, titled W911W5BXDEV, is issued by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) solely for information and planning purposes; it does not constitute a formal solicitation, Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue a formal solicitation, RFP or Broad Area Announcement (BAA), pursuant to FAR 15.201(e). Responders are advised that the U.S. Government will not pay any cost incurred in response to this sources sought and all costs associated with responding will be solely at the interested party's expense. Not responding to this sources sought does not preclude participation in any future and potential solicitation, or RFP. It is the intent of NGIC to use this for market research purposes only. If a formal solicitation is released, it will be issued via the Federal Business Opportunities (http: //www.fbo.gov). It is the responsibility of the potential offerors to monitor this website for any information that may pertain to this sources sought. The information provided in this sources sought is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. 1) Description: NGIC is seeking to identify qualified business sources capable of providing biometric/identity intelligence systems enhancement engineering, development, and operations and maintenance services. Small businesses, in addition to large businesses, are strongly encouraged to provide responses to this Sources Sought Notice, in order to assist NGIC in determining the potential levels of interest, competition, and technical capability to provide the required services within the business community. In addition, this information will be used to assist NGIC in establishing a basis for developing any subsequent potential subcontracting plan for meeting small business goal percentages. The contractor must be able to support the following requirements: a)The contractor should demonstrate past experience (within the last year) in supporting similar efforts in the Department of Defense (DoD) Intelligence Community (IC). The contractor must have proven experience delivering complicated systems engineering, development, and operations and maintenance services within the Military IC. b)The contractor should demonstrate biometric/identity intelligence subject matter expertise, including data standards and sharing, policy development, and the application of identity biometric/intelligence technology. c)The contractor should demonstrate experience in providing support to systems with an intricate process driven deployment cycle with structured enclaves. d)The contactor should show experience with Army, DoD, and IC Information Assurance certification and accreditation. The contractor should show knowledge of Defense Information Systems Agencys (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) requirements. e)The contractor should demonstrate the ability to manage task order financials, deliverables and monthly status. The contractor should demonstrate the ability to manage/lead a multi-contractor team to execute multiple tasks to achieve successful results and meet deliverables within Government-specified schedule and cost objectives. f)The contractor should demonstrate the ability to provide systems analysis, engineering, and architecture development throughout the entire software development lifecycle process to ensure software applications satisfy system and functional requirements, including interoperability with other DoD/IC systems. g)The contractor should demonstrate experience with advanced systems engineering and software development concepts to include service oriented and cloud architectures, large volume data management, extraction, and retrieval, business workflow process management, high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, and operations research. h)The contractor should demonstrate past success (within the past 3 years) in providing methods, practices, and technical products of high quality, accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency. i)The contractor should demonstrate the ability to accurately derive system level requirements from customer requirements and deliver system enhancements in coordination with government and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) representatives. j) The contractor should demonstrate the ability to develop thorough documentation of requirements; maintaining a system requirements repository, status, allocation to baselines, and verification through test milestones. k)The contractor should demonstrate the ability to provide operations and maintenance support to highly available complex intelligence data management systems. l)The contractor must show that they can provide identity intelligence systems enhancement engineering, development, and operations and maintenance services support at classification levels up to Top Secret//Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS//SCI). m)Sources must comply with security requirements as set forth in the Contract Security Classification Specification (DD Form 254). 2) Submission Instructions: a.Prospective sources, possessing the qualifications, capability, and experience to respond to this source's sought are invited to respond to this sources sought inclusive of answers to the requested information listed above. The associated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes are 541990, 541511, 541512, 541519. b.Responses shall be limited to 10 pages all-inclusive and submitted via email in a Microsoft compatible format ONLY to Jessica Winn, Contract Specialist, at NGICContracting@us.army.mil and jessica.winn@mi.army.mil. E-mail title should be W911W5BXDEV RFI Insert name of contractor in the subject line of the e-mail. Example: W911W5BXDEV RFI Abcdef Corporation. NGIC reserves the right to review late submissions but makes no guarantee to the order of or possibility for review of late submissions. c.Respondents shall provide responses in softcopy form (electronically) in Microsoft Word compatible format ONLY and are due no later than 3:00 PM (local Eastern Time) on Friday, July 9, 2010. d.Proprietary information, if any, should be minimized and MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED and completely separated. Be advised that no submissions will be returned. e.Responses to this sources sought may be evaluated by Government technical experts. The program office has contracted for various non-government, scientific, engineering, technical and administrative staff support services, some of which require contractors to obtain access to proprietary information submitted by other contractors. All non-government contractor support personnel have signed and are bound by the appropriate non-disclosure agreements and organizational conflict of interest statements. The Government may also use these selected support contractor personnel as technical advisors in the evaluation of submissions. Non-government staff support personnel will not have access to RFI that may be labeled by the offerors as Government Access Only. f. This notice is for market research and planning purpose only and does not commit the Government to any contractual agreement. This is not a request for proposal or solicitation. The Government does not intend to award a contract based on responses under this announcement nor otherwise pay for preparing any information sent for the Government use. Any proprietary information should be so marked. Interested sources should provide the following: 1) company name and address; 2) point of contact; 3) phone/fax/email; 4) NAICS Codes, 5) business size and status, type of small business if applicable (e.g. 8(a), women-owned, HUB Zone Small Business, etc.); and 6) capability information in response to the requirement. 4) Questions: Submit questions to Jessica Winn, Contract Specialist, at jessica.winn@mi.army.mil on or before 3:00 PM (local Eastern Time) on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Ground Intelligence Center ATTN: IANG-CS-LO/MS204, 2055 Boulders Road Charlottesville VA
- Zip Code: 22911-8318
- Zip Code: 22911-8318
- Record
- SN02184010-W 20100624/100622234826-ddd5ba47269d7e7c17d8430fe8c1b7a4 (fbodaily.com)
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