SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Provision of Enterprise NATO Public-Key Infrastructure (E-NPKI) - Summary of Requirements
- Notice Date
- 6/10/2015
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry & Security, Department of Commerce, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1099D, Washington, District of Columbia, 20230
- ZIP Code
- 20230
- Solicitation Number
- IFB-CO-13810-CS
- Archive Date
- 7/3/2015
- Point of Contact
- Lee Ann Carpenter, Phone: 202-482-2583
- E-Mail Address
-
LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov
(LeeAnn.Carpenter@bis.doc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Summary of Requirements The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for the provision of Enterprise NATO Public-Key Infrastructure (E-NPKI). Potential U.S. prime contractors must 1) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB) 2) hold a current facility security clearance at the level of SECRET and ) 3 be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government. Contractor personnel will be required to work unescorted in Class II and Class I security areas. Accordingly, contractor personnel will be required to hold individual security clearances at the level of NATO SECRET. The contractor is responsible for ensuring that the Defense Security Service Operations Center forwards to the NATO contracting entity the required NATO security clearance certifications. The reference for the IFB is IFB-CO-13810-CS and all correspondence concerning the IFB should reference this number. REQUIREMENT The E-NPKI project is intended to provide the Alliance with a set of security services enabling confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. It will provide the key and information management functions to other communications and information system security services by means of lifecycle certificate management. Its infrastructure will be made up of several components: certificate authorities, registration authorities, revocation services, end-utility support (tokens, clients, etc.), security and audit tools, software, etc. Please see the attached Summary of Requirements for more information. BECOMING ELIGIBLE TO BID NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate U.S. prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list for this procurement, the firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. Firms are approved for NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis. The NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA. U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/other-areas/strategic-industries-and-economic-security-sies/nato-related-business-opportunities The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email: - the title and/or solicitation number of the project - the name/phone/FAX/email of the point of contact for the bid documents After approval of your one-time NATO ICB application, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) will then know to follow up by issuing a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) for that project. NATO member governments use a DOE to nominate an approved firm to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project. IMPORTANT DATES: - Request from DOC that a DOE be issued (and, for firms new to NATO ICB, submit completed one-time NATO ICB application): 30 June 2015 - IFB planned to be issued: Q3 2015 - Contract Award anticipated: Q3 2016
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