SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Office Printer/Scanner CAC Validation System
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334119
— Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Acquisition Locations, DLA Distribution, J Avenue, DDC J7-AB, Bldg 404, New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 17070-5001, United States
- ZIP Code
- 17070-5001
- Solicitation Number
- SP3300-11-SS-5002
- Archive Date
- 4/9/2011
- Point of Contact
- Karen D Ghani, Phone: 717-770-5951
- E-Mail Address
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karen.ghani@dla.mil
(karen.ghani@dla.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Introduction: This is a Request for Information (RFI) only and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Distribution will take procurement action in this matter. Further, neither DLA Distribution will be responsible for any cost incurred in furnishing the information requested. This announcement is for formal market research only and should not be considered a Request for Proposal (RFP). Any follow-on procurement strategy will be based on the results of the information provided from Offerors and available funding. In accordance with FAR 15.209(c), the following provision is inserted. FAR 52.215-3 - Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes. (Oct 1997) (a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this solicitation or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, Bid and Proposal Costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (b) Although "proposal" and "Offeror" are used in this Request for Information, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. (c) This Request for Information is issued for the purpose of soliciting industry's best ideas for a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) or modified COTS office printer/scanner CAC validation system. As a result of this RFI, the DLA Distribution is requesting a technical capabilities statement that will address the items outlined in the RFI from potential Offerors. If a potential Offeror is unable to provide a total solution, the Offeror is encouraged to submit information in the role of a Prime Contractor and propose the use of any 3rd party products as needed to develop or compliment their proposed solution. Additionally, for those proposed solutions determined by the Government to meet the Statement of Requirements included in this RFI, the Government may contact the Offeror(s) and request the Offeror(s) provide a product demonstration of their proposed solution to the Government either via Video Teleconference (VTC) or in person at the DLA Distribution Susquehanna in New Cumberland, PA, at no cost to the Government. Technical Capabilities Statement Response Format: The Offeror shall provide the following information in their technical capabilities statement: • Company information to include the company size/socio-economic status, the CAGE code, and the Point of Contact (POC) information (name, email address, telephone and fax numbers); • Background/Corporate Experience; • Overview of Proposed Solution, Technical Specifications and Capabilities of the Proposed Solution; • Narrative regarding the commerciality of the Proposed Solution, to include a listing of those companies/individuals to whom the Proposed Solution has been sold and the quantity of Proposed Solution sold to each; • Past Performance references, to include POC information for each reference; Offerors are advised not to submit any product samples, as product samples will not be reviewed/evaluated/tested. Any samples submitted will be immediately returned by the Government to the Offeror. Response Submission Information: Questions regarding this RFI should be emailed to Karen Ghani at karen.ghani@dla.mil. Questions not received via electronic mail may not be answered. Responses may be sent via email to karen.ghani@dla.mil. The size limitation for an email response is 15MB. Responses sent via the U.S. Postal Service should be sent to: DLA Distribution 2001 Mission Drive, Bldg 404 DLA Distribution J7 (AB), Karen Ghani New Cumberland, PA 17070-5000 Responses sent via Commercial Carrier (i.e. FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.) shall be addressed to the Contract Specialist, Karen Ghani, and mailed to: DLA Distribution Karen Ghani J Avenue, Bldg 404 DLA Distribution J7 (AB) New Cumberland, PA 17070-5000 Responses should be received by March 25, 2011 at 11:00 am EST. Statement of Requirements: BACKGROUND: As per HSPD-12; the Defense Logistics Agency has a potential requirement to validate print, scan and copy functions using the DOD CAC cards for personnel using a validation device on a centrally located printer, scanner, copier, Multi-Function device (MFD) in a sensitive administrative area. The output may or may not be considered sensitive. • The intent of the validation device is to assure that the operators who use a particular device are in fact approved to print from that device and the correct operator (or approved substitute) is in fact retrieving it. • The intent of this action is to provide assurance for targeted printers, scanners and copiers meet the requirements of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12). • The intent of the device is to assure any product scanned into the Government internal network, is in fact an approved operator and in fact the scanned product is correctly routed to the operators desktop or mailbox and no one else. • The intent of the device is to assure that the copier, printer scanner, MFD secured by this device requires a CAC card and pin before functioning. • The intent of this device is to assure the correct recipient always gets the correct product and distribution is narrowed to only the designated recipient. • The intent of this device is to provide Public Key Encryption between a scanned document and the recipients mailbox or desktop. CURRENTLY: • The Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Operations at New Cumberland and supported distribution operations worldwide, operate a large amount of administrative copiers, printers and multi-function devices that are manufactured by various companies. • Many but not all of the Multi-Function Devices (MFD) are of Kyocera manufacturer (Task Alpha series). There are copiers, printers and MFD of other manufacture also in the same print plant. • DOD uses and will used for this function the DOD Common Access Card (CAC) for and X509 certificate for accreditation via LDAP and OCSP. The access card meets the specifics of FIPS201-1. SPECIFICS: • Any potential product/system must have the ability to work with multiple vendors of printers and MFD products. • Any potential device must be able to scan block. That is defined as approve or block scans going upstream by device. • Any potential device must provide automatic electronic termination of any/all predefined function when the CAC is removed. Conversely; some functions as preprogrammed can only occur with an inserted, approved and validated CAC. • Any potential device must use must provide at least 2 RJ45 connections for 100baseT Ethernet and TCP/IP convention Ipv4 and be upgradeable to Ipv6 when required with a configuration or simple software or firmware change. • Any approved device must operate on an Ethernet and TCP/IP network be separately IP address able and be capable of interfacing with at least 2 CAT6 cables (one to the network and one to the MFD). • Any potential device must allow remote web access into the device to assure functionality, check running statistics if available and alter the configuration dynamically or near dynamically. • Any potential products must have the ability to read a CAC card certificate, provide an entrance mechanism for the operator to enter a pin number without display, accept the pin and successfully validate that user credentials/ X509 certificate at the appropriate PKI server via with OSCP and LDAP protocols. • Any device must authenticate to NTLMV2 or better. • The device must support all DOD SMART cards including ISO/IEC 7816 and ISO/IEC 7810. • Any potential device must be able to prevent traffic to and from the printer, copier, scanner or MFD until the pin number has been entered and the credentials validated. • Any potential device allowing any print until any CAC is validated is not acceptable, if that feature is turned on. • Any potential device must be able to pre-determine permissions for the approved function and escalate the restrictions for all. Restrictions and/or permissions by particular user/operator are not required. Permissions are to be assigned by device rather than individual. • Any device must be portable, not vendor or model specific and can be removed and installed on other copiers, printers, scanners, MFD as the mission dictates. • Any encryption must meet the requirements of FIPS 128 or FIPS 120-2 for all traffic scanned into the device and deposited on the users/operators mailbox or desktop. Print traffic is not designed to be encrypted and encrypted print traffic to the printer or MFD is not required at this time.
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