SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- U.S. Army TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G2) Operational Environment(OE)
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- MICC Center - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis), Building 2798, Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5538
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5538
- Solicitation Number
- W911S011CORE
- Response Due
- 12/7/2011
- Archive Date
- 2/5/2012
- Point of Contact
- Melinda Oblein, 757-878-3166
- E-Mail Address
-
MICC Center - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis)
(melinda.oblein@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 - Mission Contracting Office (MICC-MCO) Fort Eustis intends to procure a contract to support the U.S. Army TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G2) Operational Environment (OE) core mission tasks at Fort Leavenworth, KS and Fort Eustis, VA. TRADOC G-2 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. This support includes initial, functional, leader development and education, collective training for the operational environment, 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 the TRADOC Army Language Program (TALP); (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 Operation. Provide resource management support, administrative, and credit card processing support to approximately 1100 TRADOC G-2 personnel. Provide Career Program (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. Devil's Advocate. Conduct critical reviews for the command. Provide alternative views for the command through the read 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, Material, 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 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 request 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 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 operation reports into usable framework for scenario-based training. Tasks include software development, database development, integration, and 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: a) Size of the company (i.e., 8(a), HUBZONE, WOSB, Veteran Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, etc.) b) Number of employees c) Average revenue for the last three years d) Resources to include your company's growth capabilities and established line of credit. e) Your companies capability to do this type of work including, communication of technical expertise, capability, and capacity including similar, relevant and recent (three years or less) performance capabilities mush be presented in sufficient detail for the Government to determine your company possesses the necessary functional area expertise and experience to compete for this acquisition. Responses shall not exceed five (5) pages. It is imperative that business responding to this sources sought notice articulate their capabilities clearly and adequately. Please send your responses to MICC-MCO by 5:00pm EST, 7 December 2011. Email submissions are required and shall be sent to Melinda Oblein (melinda.oblein@us.army.mil). IF A SOLICITATION IS ISSUED IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE and all interested parties shall 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: MICC Center - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis) Building 2798, Fort Eustis VA
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
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