SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- NETWORK SERVICE CENTER- TRAINING, FORT GORDON, GEORGIA
- Notice Date
- 11/2/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 517919
— All Other Telecommunications
- Contracting Office
- MICC - Fort Gordon, Directorate of Contracting, 419 B Street, Bldg 29718, 3rd Floor, Fort Gordon, GA 30905-5719
- ZIP Code
- 30905-5719
- Solicitation Number
- 0010023716
- Response Due
- 11/9/2011
- Archive Date
- 1/8/2012
- Point of Contact
- Tara McAdoo, (706)791-1809
- E-Mail Address
-
MICC - Fort Gordon
(tara.mcadoo@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought notice is for informational and planning purposes only. It does not constitute a Solicitation and is not to be considered as a commitment by the Government. All firms responding to this sources sought notice are advised that their response to this notice is not a request that will be considered for contract award. The information from this market research is for planning purposes only and will assist the Government in planning its acquisition strategy. This is strictly market research and the Government will not entertain questions concerning this market research. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 517919. The intent of this notice is to determine the availability of qualified commercial sources technically capable of providing the below: Provide systems engineering, training, and live experimentation support to the Network Service Center - Training (NSC-T) located in the US Army Signal Center of Excellence, Capabilities Development Integration Directorate (CDID), Experimentation Division (ED), Fort Gordon, GA. The NSC-T is a unique capability that provides every WIN-T-capable unit (AC,NG,AR) with 24x7x365 connectivity and NetOps for training. It provides hub services, GIG services (NIPRNET, SIPRNET, DSN, and VoSIP), and world-class help desk support to the sustainment/collective training missions as well as the institutional LandWarNet enterprise training environment. The NSC-T impacts the Operating Forces in CONUS, Hawaii, and Alaska (80% of total OF). Support for the sustainment/collective training enterprise is a core mission of the NSC-T; it supports the Operating Force in all phases of ARFORGEN. The training events supported by the NSC-T span from crew drills to comprehensive training events (CTC/MRX), from Corps to Battalion echelons. The NSC-T executes CDID, TRADOC, and Army experimentation objectives, develops prototypes, and assesses emerging technologies, waveforms, and architectures. The NSC-T has a persistent experimentation mission to provide Regional Hub Node support. Signal doctrine and TTPs are developed and validated using the NSC-T to maintain "train as you fight". The contractor would provide support to the NSC-T primarily in the following areas: systems engineering, systems administration, network planning, network execution, maintenance, troubleshooting, documentation, information assurance and fielding support to the Program Manager WIN-T. Provide systems engineering expertise in support of the NSC-T missions including 1) Unit Organizational training for all WIN-T equipped units in the Army; 2) Fielding support to Program Manager WIN-T; and 3) live experimentation. Contractor must provide systems administration to support all workstations, servers, switches, routers, hubs and production machines within the NSC-T to include information assurance requirements. Contractor must provide network and data engineering and planning that includes such tasks as network architecture development, hardware (cisco routers, switches, call manager, VOIP telephones, security appliances, Promina, REDCOM PBX, etc.) and software installation, configuration, maintenance, crypto key management. Provide both in-house and fielding satellite engineering support to training units, fielding units and live experimentation events. Satellite engineering includes power balancing TDMA and FDMA networks, frequency management, bandwidth management, SATCOM system installation, Linkway Network implementation, Network Control Console programming, troubleshooting, and maintenance. OCONUS travel may be required to support this requirement. Potential offerors having the skills, experience, professional qualifications, and capabilities necessary to perform the described requirement are invited to provide a capabilities statement via e-mail. The Capability statements shall not exceed ten (10) pages and must include the following: 1) Company name and Point of Contact information (address, telephone, e-mail, web-site, etc.); 2) DUNS number and CAGE code; 3) Small Business Size/Certification (to include 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, etc.); and 4) Familiarity and knowledge of the requirement. Responses are due no later than 1300 EST, Wednesday, 09 November 2011, and shall be electronically submitted to tara.mcadoo@us.army.mil. All responses will be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy for a potential future acquisition. Response is strictly voluntary; no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this synopsis or any follow-up information requests.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: MICC - Fort Gordon Directorate of Contracting, 419 B Street, Bldg 29718, 3rd Floor Fort Gordon GA
- Zip Code: 30905-5719
- Zip Code: 30905-5719
- Record
- SN02616887-W 20111104/111102234557-87aaff42268da6c4a61ae2337aa4abe1 (fbodaily.com)
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