SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- TRADOC CORE
- Notice Date
- 10/28/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Fort Eustis Contracting Center (W911S0), Building 2798, Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5538
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5538
- Solicitation Number
- W911S010CORE
- Response Due
- 11/8/2010
- Archive Date
- 1/7/2011
- Point of Contact
- Shaina McKeel, 757.878.3166
- E-Mail Address
-
Fort Eustis Contracting Center (W911S0)
(shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought announcement seeking only Small Business responses in order to determine Small Business Participation in this acquisition. As described below, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command Center Fort Eustis (MICC-CE) intends to procure contract support of its core mission tasks at Ft. Leavenworth, KS and Ft. Eustis Virginia. The U.S. Army TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G2) seeks contract support of its core mission tasks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Eustis, Virginia. TRADOC G2 is an innovative, learning, and enabling enterprise that examines national security challenges, defines current and future operating environments, challenges solutions, and expands perspectives in order to select, organize, train, and equip the Army to conduct operations in accordance with the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) process. TRADOC G2 requires contractor services to: (a) provide intelligence support to training for all TRADOC major support organizations, Centers of Excellence, Schools, and Army Combat Training Centers for initial, functional, leader development and education, and collective training for the operational environment (OE), threats, and cultural awareness; (b) validate current and future OE and threat representation in the development and maintenance of live, virtual, constructive training, modeling and simulations, exercise development (collective training), and mission rehearsal exercise; (c) execute the Army culture and foreign language strategy; (d) provide signatures and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) integration support; (e) provide knowledge management support; (f) provide foreign studies to include the culture, OE, and military dimensions; (g) provide training and education through the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies; (h) manage foreign language training for TRADOC (TALP) (The Army Language Program); (i) manage focused, pre-deployment training for Soldiers (Project Foundry); (j) assist with Career Program 35 (CP35) management; and, (k) provide administrative support. Qualified sources shall assist TRADOC by providing support in the following areas: Analysis and Production. Analyze, validate, publish, and maintain OE products in support of Army and TRADOC leader, training, concept, and capability development programs. Conduct studies and conferences to define the scope and context of the OE and describe its characteristics. Plans and Operations. Provide resource management support, administrative, and credit card processing support to approximately 1100 TRADOC G2 personnel. Provide Career Program 35 (CP35) management support for the professional development of all civil service intelligence career professionals throughout TRADOC (approximately 400 personnel). Provide TALP management support for TRADOC. Tasks include coordinating all foreign language requirements for approximately 300 TRADOC military intelligence (MI) personnel. Manage Project Foundry which provides tailored, focused pre-deployment training on multiple aspects of the OE to deploying MI Soldiers. Provide Defense Travel System (DTS) administration support for approximately 600 TRADOC G2 Government travelers. Opposing Forces (OPFOR). Provide OE/OPFOR support to Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) initiatives. Support OE/OPFOR quality assurance efforts; and support OE/OPFOR modernization functions. Devils Advocate. Conduct critical reviews for the command. Provide alternative views for the command through the red teaming process. Conduct independent fact-gathering and analysis for the command. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). Provide ISR TOPOFF support for deploying forces through mobile training teams (MTTs) (approximately 60 MTT events annually). Provide ISR signatures support which includes researching and cataloging potential threat signatures to develop doctrinal and training products for deployed and deploying forces. Wargaming and Experimentation, Test and Evaluation. Through a cadre of trained and certified red team members, provide high fidelity replication of OE variables to support experimentation, combat development, and wargames. Ensure Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel and Facilities (DOTMLPF) solutions are tested against accurate OE and associated threat capabilities in Joint and Army test and evaluation efforts. Provide role players for experiments and test and evaluation events. Foreign Military Studies. Conduct and publish regional research and provide a publication editor. Manage a database of open source research populated by individuals who input data from worldwide locations. Threats. Build intelligence products describing actors and actions in the OE. This includes reviewing, analyzing, and providing recommendations for the integration of the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE)/OE and its critical variables into training, education, and leader development events. Work includes producing and updating Field Manuals and Training Circular 7-100 series Army manuals, Exercise Design, and other OE and OPFOR products. Respond to requests for information from U.S. generating and operating forces on OE, threats, terrorism, and OPFOR issues. Update and maintain the Worldwide Equipment Guide OE Lab. Conduct Knowledge Acquisition (KA) and Knowledge Engineering (KE), software development, integration, coding, testing, and accreditation required to represent the OE within assorted ground maneuver simulations and supporting non-kinetic federates as directed. Conduct and support outreach and collaboration with industry and academia. Provide system engineering, network engineering, network administrator, and system administrator functions. University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies (UFMCS). Develop and provide seminar instruction (including MTTs). Support doctrine and organization development. Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) Support. Support TRADOCs CKO in creating, organizing, applying, and transferring knowledge to enable the operating and generating forces. Training Brain. Provide support to convert (bend) real-world intelligence and operations reports into a usable framework for scenario-based training. Tasks include software development, database development, integration, technical and functional support. Cultural Knowledge Consortium. Provide socio-cultural knowledge/human terrain support to operations through a cultural knowledge consortium. The designated NAICS code for resident training is 541990, with a size standard of $7.0 million. Your response shall include the following information: size of company (i.e., 8(a), HUBZONE, WOSB, Veteran Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, etc.), number of employees, average revenue for last three years, resources to include your companys growth capabilities and established line of credit. Your companys capability to do this type of work including, documentation of technical expertise, capability, and capacity including similar, relevant and recent (three years or less) performance capabilities must be presented in sufficient detail for the Government to determine that your company possesses the necessary functional area expertise and experience to compete for this acquisition. Responses should not exceed five (5) pages in length. It is imperative that business concerns responding to this sources sought notice articulate their capabilities clearly and adequately. The information should be sent to MICC-CE by 9am EST, 8 November 2010. Submission via email is required to shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil. Any questions should be directed to Shaina McKeel at shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil. IF A SOLICITATION IS ISSUED IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the responses to this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Fort Eustis Contracting Center (W911S0) Building 2746, Harrison Loop Fort Eustis VA
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
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