SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Counterintelligence (CI)/Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Automated Reporting and Collection Systems (CHARCS) Engineering Support Services - All Responses Due 2pm EST June 6, 2012.
- Notice Date
- 5/30/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B, HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE, ABERDEEN PROVING GROU, MD 21005-1846
- ZIP Code
- 21005-1846
- Solicitation Number
- W15P7T-5450
- Response Due
- 6/6/2012
- Archive Date
- 8/5/2012
- Point of Contact
- Tyler Restrick, 443-861-4719
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B
(tyler.j.restrick.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Request for Information (RFI) only. Do not submit a proposal or quote. After reviewing the Description of Requirements currently posted to FEDBIZOPS, interested capable contractor are invited to provide responses to the following questions. Please provide responses if you can support some or the entire Requirement, highlighting the specific areas. Responses should follow this format and be submitted electronically as one complete document. This RFI is for informational purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to procure any items/services, or for the Government to pay for the information received. 1.Please provide the following Point of Contact information: Company: Address: Point of Contact: Phone Number: Fax Numbers: Email Address: 2. Please identify your company's small business size standard based on the primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 541330 and 1 secondary NAICS codes of 541611. The Small Business Size Standard for this NAICS code is $14 million. For more information, refer to http://www.sba.gov/content/table-small-business-size-standards. Large Business Concern Small Business (SB) Concern 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) Woman-Owned Small Business Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Veteran-Owned Small Business Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business 3. If you identify your company as a Small Business or any of the SB subcategories as stipulated in Question # 2, then is your company interested in a prime contract for the below Description of Service? 4. Under the current SB recertification regulations, do you anticipate your company remaining a small business, under primary NAICS Code 541330 and secondary NAICS codes 541611? If you are a SB answer questions 4A & B. All others skip to Question #5. A. If your company is awarded the contract, will you be able to perform at least 50% (percent) of the work? B. If you are a small business, can you go without a payment for 90 days? 5. Does your company have experience as a prime contractor administering Multiple Award Contracts (MACs)? 6. If you answered "yes" to Question # 5, please provide as much of the following information as possible; A. MAC contract number(s); B. aggregate dollar value of entire MAC contract; C. aggregate dollar value of task orders you prime on each MAC; D. number of task orders you prime on MAC; E. Is the work on each MAC similar in scope to that of the Description of Service? 7. Does your company possess the capabilities to provide the entire range of services called for in the Description of Service? ______ YES _______ NO 8. If you answered YES to Question # 7, please provide specific capabilities and examples for how your company can provide these services. 9. If you answered NO to Question # 7, please list what services in the Description of Service your company can provide? Please provide specific capabilities and examples. 10. Is your company planning on business arrangements with other companies, please list the process used in selecting the members? 11. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other business arrangements to satisfy requirements of the below Description of Service. Offerors are encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size based upon the NAICS code of the work that the team member may be doing. 12. Is your company currently providing similar services to another government agency (you may also include contract #s for government) or other non-government customer? If so, please identify the agency or non-government customer. If you are unwilling to share your customer's identity, please address whether your company offers the same or similar services commercially 13. Has your Company performed this type of effort or similar type effort (to include size and complexity) in the past, if so provide Contract Number, Point of Contact (POC), e-mail address, phone number, and a brief description of your direct support of the effort? 14. What are the core competencies of your employees that would support the requirements of the Description of Service? Also, provide the total number of individuals currently employed by your company that are capable of supporting the requirements in the Description of Service. 15. Does your company have a SECRET facility or access to one should it be required? 16. Do all the employees that would support this Description of Service have a SECRET Clearance? 17. Does your firm possess an approved Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) accounting system? 18. This RFI calls for engineering support to include technology investigation and insertion. Please describe your ability to provide technology investigation and insertion for both commercial off the shelf items as well as government off the shelf items. 19. This RFI calls for software engineering support to include oversight of software development processes and infrastructure. Please describe your ability to provide oversight of software development and infrastructure with special emphasis placed on mitigating risk in those two areas. 20. Software integration is a major focus of the engineering support required by PD CHARCS. Please describe in detail your ability to provide software integration with special emphasis on the mitigation of risk as it applies to software integration in a windows environment. 21. Please describe your ability to provide integration and verification of interoperability interfaces for supported systems such as the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). 22. Please describe your ability to provide training, logistics, and sustainment management for software and hardware that is continuously enhancing existing capability and integrating new capabilities. 23. Please describe your ability to provide strategic planning, program, and policy support for a chartered acquisition program which is continuously adding additional capabilities. 24.Please describe your organizational management, administrative management, and manpower management procedures as they relate to supporting a software driven organization. 25. Interested companies may also provide a "White Paper" (no more than 20 pages in length) describing how its products and technical expertise could produce and deliver such capabilities as described in the information below. Also, identify your company's past and current customers to which you provided similar products, including a customer/company name, point of contact, phone number, and address/e-mail where they can be contacted. GENERAL The contractor shall provide assistance to PD CHARCS in Project Manager Distributed Common Ground Systems-Army (DCGS-A) as outlined in the paragraphs below. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE / PLACE OF PERFORMANCE/ SECURITY The place of performance shall be at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and Fort Huachuca, Arizona. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE The contract tasks will include systems engineering support to the CHARCS lead system engineer to include general systems engineering, systems implementation planning, technology investigation, insertion, and system testing and evaluation. Contract tasks also include software engineering support to include oversight of software development processes and infrastructure, oversight of software architecture and software engineering and architecture requirements, and oversight of software integration and testing. Furthermore, contract tasks include interoperability support to include requirements analysis and definition, design, implementation, integration, and verification of the interoperability interfaces for other supported systems such as the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). Contractors will also provide test and evaluation support during all phases of the life cycle, associated development and operational support, and training, logistics and sustainment management to include developing training programs for platforms, systems, subsystems, or critical items as required by applicable task orders. The contractor will provide plans and planning for sustainment and disposal of fielded technology. Contractor will also provide strategic plans, programs, and policy support to include organizational management, administrative management, and manpower management and force development.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B HQ CECOM CONTRACTING CENTER, 6001 COMBAT DRIVE ABERDEEN PROVING GROU MD
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Zip Code: 21005-1846
- Record
- SN02761712-W 20120601/120531000241-f824c34bde266fc55ef9853195d9eaa0 (fbodaily.com)
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