SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- B2_SDS_Spiral 10.5 & 11
- Notice Date
- 3/11/2015
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFLCMC/PK - WPAFB (includes PZ, WL, WW, WI, WN, WK, LP, WF, WK), 2275 D Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433-7218, United States
- ZIP Code
- 45433-7218
- Solicitation Number
- B2_SDS_Spiral
- Archive Date
- 4/28/2015
- Point of Contact
- Keith, Phone: (937)713-6020
- E-Mail Address
-
Keith.Brandner@us.af.mil
(Keith.Brandner@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- B-2 Signature Diagnostic System (SDS) Spiral 10.5 & 11 In accordance with Part 10 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the Government is conducting a sources sought synopsis (SSS) for the acquisition of B-2 SDS Spiral 10.5 and Spiral 11. All interested firms shall submit a response demonstrating their capabilities to produce the requested capability to the primary point of contact listed below. As stipulated in FAR 15.201, responses to this notice are not considered offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. No solicitation exists; therefore, do not request a copy of the solicitation. The decision to solicit for a contract shall be solely within the Government's discretion. While industry sources are requested to provide full and comprehensive responses to this questionnaire, they are reminded that all information is voluntary, and the Government will not reimburse sources in any way for responses provided. Likewise, a company's participation in the market research via this questionnaire does not obligate the Government to enter into any contractual agreement, either formally or informally, with a company. This sources sought is being issued in order to conduct market research to assess the ability of potential offerors to develop and deploy upgrades to the B-2 SDS, the Geometry-based Image Analysis Tool (GIAnT), and the SCI-2k Diagnostic Radar System (DRS), within the needed schedule. The B-2 Division at Wright Patterson AFB OH has requirements to: • Develop, integrate and test upgrades to the SDS application software, including; o The capability in SDS to generate a downrange slice plot within the range profile windows with control functionality similar to the image-edit-reconstruct (IER) plot capability. o A registration algorithm for use with the SDS Tier II Data Processor that determines rotation position automatically. • Upgrade the SDS network to comply with Air Force-directed information assurance requirements for computer operating systems. The operating system on all SDS servers must be upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2 and the system must undergo regression testing to ensure the deployed SDS Spiral 10.1 capability is not degraded (as defined in the Spiral 10.1 System Requirement Document). • Perform customer acceptance testing (CAT) of SDS Spiral 10.5 (information assurance and SDS application software upgrades) and deploy the software to the operational servers. • Develop, integrate and test upgrades to the Phoenix SDS software, including; o Alignment Quality Check DLL o Low frequency "pre-calibration" algorithm o Support for external rotator control • Upgrade the computer operating system on the SCI-2k DRS units to Windows 7 and perform software and system level regression testing. • Install the upgraded application (Phoenix SDS) and operating system (Windows 7) software on the eight (8) SCI-2k DRS units. • Validate and verify the existing Geometry-based Image Analysis Tool (GIAnT) software modules with operational SDS data. • Develop and test improvements to the GIAnT software, including; o Capability to execute operator-based 3 dimensional (3D) projection algorithms o Utilize multi-thread / multi-core computing processes o Utilize AVI file compression o Capability to import 3D models o Capability to perform 3D image editing with including the capability to separate image data in elevation, range and cross-range o Capability to import current SDS Functional Operations (FunOps) and the FunOp feature filter o Capability to import DRS Band 1 and Band 2 antenna patterns o Capability to import the B-2 AHFM II aircraft configuration • Integrate and test the improved GIAnT software on a dedicated workstation and deliver to the Government • Develop, integrate, test and deliver SDS Spiral 11 capabilities in accordance with the Spiral 11 System Requirement Document. • Accomplish the above requirements within three (3) years after contract award. • Maintain the SDS application software via a contract option with a three (3) year period of performance. This contract option may be exercised separately from the developmental tasks cited above. We are still determining the acquisition strategy and if this acquisition is a small business set-aside, FAR 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting applies. Note that, if there is sufficient demonstrated interest and capability among small business contractors, a key factor in determining if an acquisition will be a Small Business Set-Aside is that two or more potential small business prime contractors must be capable of performing at least 50% of the effort, as defined in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting. If it is determined that a small business set-aside is appropriate and your company anticipates submitting a proposal as the prime contractor for a small business set-aside, please provide specific details and rationale as to how compliance with FAR clause 52.219-14 would be achieved, including specific details regarding teaming arrangements, etc. If subcontracts are to be used, provide anticipated percentage of effort to be subcontracted and whether small or large businesses will be used. Teaming and/or subcontracting arrangements should be clearly delineated and previous experience in teaming must be provided. All efforts will be made to identify applicable sources. CONTRACTOR CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT: If your company has the capacity to supply this requirement, please provide a capability statement addressing the following areas: I. BUSINESS INFORMATION Company/Institute Name and CAGE Code: Address: Point of Contact: CAGE Code: Phone Number: Email Address: Web Page URL: Size of business pursuant to NAICS Code 541512 $27,500,000 Based on the above NAICS Code, state whether your company is: Small Business (Yes / No)* Woman Owned Economically Small Disadvantaged Business (Yes / No)* Woman Owned Small Business (Yes/ No)* HUBZone Certified (Yes / No)* Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No)* Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No)* 8(a) Certified (Yes / No) * Please indicate Self-Certified or Third Party Certified All prospective contractors must be registered in the System Award Management (SAM) database to be awarded a DoD contract. Note that the NAICS code for this requirement, if applicable to your company's capabilities, should be included in your company's NAICS code listing in SAM. 1. Is your company domestically or foreign owned (if foreign, please indicate the country of ownership). The anticipated contract will have both fixed price and cost type CLINS. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this action is 541512, size standard $27,500,000; please indicate (aggregate dollar amount) relative to the indicated size standard. Firms responding shall specify that their products meet the specifications provided below and provide detailed product information to show clear technical compliance. Information about the firm's standard warranty is also requested. Additionally, sales history, to include identification of recent commercial customers, should be included with any assertion of commerciality. II. GENERAL COMPANY INFORMATION 1. Briefly describe your company's primary business product line. 2. Briefly describe your company's business regarding development and maintenance of enterprise level data support systems with Oracle. 3. Please identify any industry certifications that your company presently holds in the area of software engineering. 4. Briefly describe your company's software development and testing process. 5. Briefly describe your company's approach to conducting user training on software developed and deployed in blocks or spirals. III. TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES 1. Does your company have experience with the following? a) Design, development, integration, test and delivery/deployment of aircraft low observable (LO) inspection, measurement and defect data assessment systems operating on Top Secret, Special Access Required network(s). (Yes / No). b) Integration of LO visual inspection data with aircraft signature assessment data systems? (Yes / No). c) Integration of LO material electrical probe measurement data with aircraft signature assessment data systems? (Yes / No). d) Integration of zonal imaging radar measurement data with aircraft signature assessment data systems? (Yes / No). e) Processing of large amounts of zonal imaging radar measurement data with batch software tools similar to MATLAB or Pioneer? (Yes / No). f) Design, development and testing of algorithms that translate either near field zonal or whole body radar data to the far field? (Yes / No). g) Visualization of near field zonal radar beam patterns on 3D aircraft models? (Yes / No). Provide evidence of your company's experience in the above areas. 2. Does your company have any working involvement with the B-2 signature diagnostic environment (inspection systems, measurement systems, data archiving, or data processing)? (Yes / No). Provide evidence of your company's experience in the above areas. 3. Does your company have experience with enterprise level Oracle database and data store systems? (Yes / No). Provide evidence of your company's experience in the above areas. 4. Does your company have experience segregating Oracle database and data store systems and performing replication and re-merging divergent data stores (e.g., B-2 SDS includes deployable SDS systems that are occasionally separated from the main database and data store. Upon return from deployment, the deployable database and data store are re-merged with the enterprise level database and data store)? (Yes / No). Provide evidence of your company's experience in the above areas. 5. Does your company have experience with identifying, tracking and solving system software trouble reports? (Yes / No). Provide evidence of your company's experience in the above areas. IV. BUSINESS PRACTICES 1. Does your company have experience with long-term contracts, i.e. more than 5 years in duration? (Yes / No). 2. Does your company have experience managing subcontractors developing portions of a system? (Yes / No). Does your company have experience integrating products provided by a subcontractor into the overall system? (Yes / No). If yes, does your company accept overall responsibility for both the subcontractor's product and that product integrated into the overall system? 3. For this effort would your company need to subcontract any part of the work? (Yes / No). If yes, identify and briefly describe any necessary subcontracts. If you are a certified distributor for any of the parts listed, please indicate this in the event that any subsequent acquisition qualifies under the Non-Manufacturer Rule. Please note, while no acquisition strategy has been determined, should this acquisition be set-aside for small business, FAR 52.219-14, Limitation on Subcontracting, will apply. Both small and large businesses are encouraged to respond. What is the probability that your company will submit a proposal to compete on this requirement if an opportunity existed? If your company anticipates submitting a proposal, if and when an RFP is released, do you anticipate subcontracting any of the work and if so, to whom? Based on the anticipated NAICS code (541512), approximately what percentage of small business utilization do you anticipate as a percentage of the total contract value? Respondents will not be individually notified of the results of any government assessments. The Government's evaluation of the capability statements received will factor into whether any forthcoming solicitation will be conducted as a full and open competition or as a set-aside for small businesses, or any particular small business designation (e.g. SDVOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), EDWOSB). Capabilities package: All interested firms shall submit a capabilities package that explicitly demonstrates company capabilities-indicating examples of commercial sales if applicable-and product specifications related to this effort. Responses should be typed in 12 point Times New Roman font, single-spaced and not exceed 50 pages. Responses may be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: keith.brandner@us.af.mil in a Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat compatible format or mailed to AFLCMC/WWZK POC: Keith Brandner, 2690 Loop Road West WPAFB, OH 45433 to be received no later than 5:00 PM, Eastern Time, 13 April 2015. Direct all questions concerning this acquisition to Keith Brandner at Keith.Brandner@us.af.mil. Be advised that all correspondence sent via email shall contain a subject line that reads "B2_SDS_Spiral 10.5&11SSS" If this subject line is not included, the email may not get through email filters at Wright-Patterson AFB. Filters are designed to delete emails without subject lines or with suspicious subject lines or contents. Attachments with files ending in.zip or.exe are not allowable and will be deleted. Ensure only.pdf,.doc, or.xls documents are attached to email. Marketing materials are considered an insufficient response to this Sources Sought synopsis. There is no restriction on who can respond to this SSS; however, if submitting company proprietary Information, please be sure it is clearly marked. To aid the government, please segregate Proprietary Information to the maximum extent possible. All submissions become Government Property and will not be returned. The Government shall not be liable for, or suffer any consequential damages, for any proprietary information not properly identified.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: AFLCMC/WWZK, B-2 System Program Office, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433, United States
- Zip Code: 45433
- Zip Code: 45433
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