SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Cyber Security Technical Area Tasks (CS TATs)
- Notice Date
- 7/1/2014
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Combat Command, 55 CONS, 101 Washington Sq Bldg 40, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 68113-2107, United States
- ZIP Code
- 68113-2107
- Solicitation Number
- FA8075-14-R-0001
- Point of Contact
- Stanley F. Stearns, Phone: 402-294-4711, John Lower, Phone: (402) 232-5330
- E-Mail Address
-
stanley.stearns@us.af.mil, csiactat@us.af.mil
(stanley.stearns@us.af.mil, csiactat@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Anticipated Request for Proposal Release/Award Date: August 2014/October 2015 Small Business Set Aside: Partial SB Set Aside for threshold of $3.5M and below Acquisition Details: •1. The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) has a requirement to establish a multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract structure for Cyber Security and Information Systems Technical Area Tasks (CS TATs). All responsible sources may submit a bid, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. The CS TATs IDIQ contracts will include requirements spanning the focus areas of Software Analysis, Information Assurance, Knowledge Management & Information Sharing and Modeling and Simulation. Specific CS TATs projects will be acquired under separately funded task orders. The CS TATs task orders may include Research & Development (R&D) for complex, scientific and technical requirements. TAT projects will originate from evolving/emerging Government requirements, will usually necessitate a rapid response, and will often integrate the expertise of a diverse cadre of professionals from across various disciplines. Contractors shall provide qualified individuals for the duration of the project or period of performance of the individual TAT orders, and be able to provide R&D support throughout CONUS and OCONUS locations, as required. A Top Secret facility clearance will be required for prospective contractors. The total value of all TATs issued shall not exceed $2.0B over the life of the contracts. •2. The Government intends to make multiple awards under this solicitation using both an unrestricted Full and Open (F&O) competition pool and a partial Small Business (SB) set-aside competition pool for all TATs estimated at $3.5M and below. For the F&O competition pool the Government seeks to award a target number of six IDIQ contracts. For the SB competition pool the Government seeks to award a target number of three SB IDIQ contracts. The Government reserves the right to award more or fewer contracts in total or in a different mix of SB and F&O awards if the Source Selection Authority (SSA) determines it is in the Government's best interest. The SSA will consider the Government's expected volume of work, available funding, adequate competition, and the availability of best-value proposals. Each contract will have a total five year ordering period, constructed of a base and option periods. The CS TATs acquisition (IDIQ contract(s)) will be conducted using a Limited Tradeoff source selection process to make a best value assessment where trade-off(s) for the competition pools for the unrestricted Full and Open (F&O) and partial Small Business (SB) set-aside with a $3.5M threshold, are permitted between technical subfactors 1a (unrestricted F&O) or 1b (partial SB set-aside), past performance and cost/price factors if the superior performance warrants the price differential and is considered to provide the best value to the Government (Technical and Past Performance combined, are approximately equal to price). Technical and past performance will be evaluated seperately based on the competition pool. Pricing criteria will be evaluated identical for all business types (large and small). •3. Individual task orders issued under resultant CS TATs contracts will be competed using Fair Opportunity rules cited in FAR 16. For the SB competition set aside, wherein competition for TATs may be limited to SBs only, FAR 52.219-14 - Limitations of Subcontracting will apply. For SBs competing in the F&O Competition Pool, FAR 52.219-14 will not apply. •4. Organizational Conflict of Information Restriction: As previously posted, an OCI would exist if the Prime contractor from the Cyber Security Information Analysis Center Basic Center Operation (CSIAC BCO) acquisition, responsible for searching/disseminating data from the repository of STI or initially assisting a potential TAT customer via an inquiry, was also a Prime or Subcontractor competing for any CS TATs award (IDIQ contract and/or order levels). The CSIAC BCO acquisition is a 100% small business set-aside. The Government is completely avoiding this OCI risk by precluding the CSIAC BCO Prime contractor from being a Prime or Subcontractor under a CS TATs award. •5. No responses are requested at this time. Interested parties should continue to watch Federal Business Opportunities as the government will post documents as they are developed. Visit http://iac.dtic.mil/ for additional details on the DTIC Information Analysis Center Program. Department of Defense Instruction 3200.14, Principles and Operational Parameters of the DoD Scientific and Technical Information Program can be found at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/pdf/customer/STINFOdata/DoDI_320014.pdf.
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