MODIFICATION
D -- Request for Information (RFI) to identify potential sources capable of providing System Engineering Services.
- Notice Date
- 5/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design 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
- W15P7T13RA503
- Response Due
- 5/30/2013
- Archive Date
- 7/29/2013
- Point of Contact
- Melissa Bettinger, 443 861 4616
- E-Mail Address
-
ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B
(melissa.a.bettinger@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The Department of the Army's Communications, Electronics, Research, Development and Engineering Center is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to identify potential sources capable of providing System Engineering Services. The information obtained through this RFI is to obtain market information and capabilities for planning purposes and to determine appropriate strategies to meet the Agency's requirements. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment for an RFP in the future. Responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred in response to this announcement and information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned. This action is for a Cost-Plus- Fixed- Fee contract for System Engineering Services. This action is estimated to take place over 2 years. The total estimated price of the proposed action is $3 Million. Responses will assist the Government in determining potential responsible sources and to determine the technical capability of the domestic production base. All respondents are required to complete the System for Award Management (SAM) process to be considered eligible for any potential Department of Defense contracts. SAM registration information can be obtained at http://www.sam.gov/. Respondents may submit their interest and ability to satisfy the Government's requirement to the point of contact listed below. Responses must be no longer than three (3) pages in length and should include a description of capabilities, technical expertise, and relevant past experience. Submit responses via email to: Margaret Burdeshaw at margaret.r.burdeshaw.civ@mail.mil within fifteen (15) calendar days of publication of this announcement. Firms must be capable of performing the following work: Task Descriptions: Task 1: Orchestration: Orchestration is a coordinating activity which organizes resources, priorities, execution plans, and status data across a large enterprise in order to enable optimal and predictable performance of a large, loosely- coupled collection of organizations. The key objective of the orchestration activity is to use the best data available to balance between enterprise and individual goals and objectives based upon a wide variety of stakeholder requirements and desires which cannot all be realized in an end state product due to resource limitations, technical limitations, risk, and organizational capacity to execute. 1.Develop and maintain the Common Operating Environment (COE) Implementation plans such that the plan provides current, correct, clear and executable guidance for all COE stakeholders. Issue draft updates for review and comment, adjudicate comments, and develop COE proposals for presentation at the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) in order to support the change process for publishing an updated version of the plan. It is anticipated that annual updates to the COE Implementation Plan will be required. 2.Perform analysis of capability alignment across Computing Environments (CE's) to include programmatic, schedule, and technical alignment (technology and interfaces) to allow risk assessment and status reporting of all activities related to development, integration, test, and certification of capabilities specified via all authoritative business process. Indentify gaps, disconnects, misalignments and recommend corrective action. 3.Develop and submit Common Operating Environment Proposals (COEPs) for additions or modifications to the cross cutting capability list. a.Conduct cross CE analyses to identify additional capability gaps and to substantiate the existing set of capability gaps. Develop COEP for gaps identified for TAB considerations. b.Document Cross CE dependencies to include CE dependencies on cross-cutting capabilities (CCC) and program dependencies on CE capabilities and CCCs. 4.Support technical interchange meetings, working groups meetings, telecons, etc. in order to facilitate the operations of a geographically dispersed staff. a.Ensure Systems of Systems Engineering and Integration (SOSE&I) representation on (Computing Environment Working Groups) CEWGs and weekly coordination meetings. Ensure and encourage coordination and technical collaboration across CEs. b.Prepare monthly slides to highlight CEWG and SOSE&I COE activities and metrics report. 5.Support process improvement activities designed to assess the current Army and DoD Acquisition Business rules in order to identify opportunities, reduce time to fielding and enable costing of COE by CE leaders and Program Executive Offices (PEOs). Develop and pilot alternatives to current practices which can reasonably be thought to support the Army mission, and comply with applicable laws, policy and regulation (or proposes needed changes to regulation and policy) with sufficient justification of the need for the change as expressed in terms of benefits to war fighter or the generating force. Draft changes to Information Assurance (IA) policy/process/security; investigate assumptions that can be made in testing and IA process due to Software Development Kits (SDKs) and ecosystem development, and coordinate with CIO G6. 6.Develop and execute Configuration Management (CM)/Knowledge Management process and CM Plan/execution strategy to include identification of tools. 7.Develop and execute Strategic Communication (STRATCOM) plan and supporting documentation. a.Develop COE STRATCOM brief b.Develop a course on COE basics. c.Develop a COE 101 non-technical briefing for public release 8.Analyze COE impacts on software licensing and sustainment. 9.Assess COE Architecture development and alignment with SOSE&I system architecture activities. Make recommendations to align activities. 10.Function as RDECOM technical advisor to the TAB a.Performs analysis and technical assessments to inform TAB decisions and activities b.Coordinate RDECOM activities in support of COE. 11.In coordination with MITRE conduct market analysis of software ecosystems, develop detailed report on requirement and specifications of a COE ecosystem. 12.Document ASA (ALT) COE Business rules and review COE related Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submissions. Document COE technical work breakdown across CEs. Prepare and review documentation and taskers in support of the COE POM process. Task 2: Verification and Validation: Verification and Validation (V&V) are well understood systems engineering activities aimed at meeting user requirements in and end-state design/product. These activities are performed in order to reduce the risk that a design fails to meet functional, performance, quality, cost, schedule and other requirements imposed upon the designer/developer. Properly planned and executed, V&V can have a positive return on investment for a development activity due to the potential to avoid cost and schedule growth associated with non-conformant design and development and low product quality. 1.Review technical documents, architectures, plans, specifications, etc. to assess the suitability and conformance such documents to higher level sources of technical data, requirements, design, etc. Analysis should include, but not be limited to, requirements traceability and allocation, standards compliance, completeness, correctness, testability, etc. Document deficiencies and develop reports which addresses specific instances of technical non-conformance as well as root cause analysis and suggested process improvements to lower rates of non-conformance in a systematic manner. 2.Participate in program reviews, and provide written assessments to the COE Chief Engineer that addresses the compliance of the systems under review with all applicable entrance and exit criteria, applicable COE and CE standards, control point specification, and other technical requirements for conducting a specific review. 3.Assess technical proposals from the CEWG regarding development of the COE Ecosystem, including software development kits, integration labs, API specifications, solicitation for third-party App developers, test tools, simulations, etc. Provide written technical reports that document deficiencies and recommend corrective actions. 4.Develop technical specification for COE market plan / apps store 5.Partner with AMRDEC, ATEC and SoSI to develop end to end test strategy to include COE compliance, CE compliance and pre-certification 6.Assist TRADOC in duplicate applications review. 7.Provide engineering support to the COE risk reduction team 8.Assess the data distribution requirements and recommend solutions to improve data distribution
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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
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