MODIFICATION
58 -- Market Survey/Request For Information - Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) Performance & Interoperability Quick-look (WIQ) 4th iteration
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2015
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 334220
— Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
- 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
- W15P7T15R0028
- Archive Date
- 6/21/2016
- Point of Contact
- Lee Alexis, 443-861-4965
- E-Mail Address
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ACC-APG - Aberdeen Division B
(lee.alexis.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1.0Purpose The purpose of this market survey is to gain knowledge of and help the Government understand vendor interest in participating in a Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW) Performance & Interoperability Quick-look (WIQ) 4th iteration. Information gathered from this survey will assist the Government in determining Government personnel resources and specific test schedules required to assist vendors in the Performance & Interoperability Quick-look events. This Quick-look event will allow vendors from both Government-funded and independent R&D-funded programs to test their products with the networking waveform reference standard and other network terminals. The Government's intent of the Quick-look event is to enable a mature marketplace based on the most enhanced, operationally relevant, and sustainable tactical networking waveforms available. 2.0Background Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T) Project Manager Tactical Radios (PM TR) desires to create and sustain a Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Tactical Radio marketplace to support current and future full and open competition acquisitions (e.g. Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radios (MNVR) Full Rate Production and Airborne, Maritime, Fixed Station (AMF) Small Airborne Networking Radio (SANR). This RFI is intended to support this objective. PM TR envisions assisting vendors participating in the WIQ by facilitating vendor waveform porting of designated WNW variants. Further, the Government will provide all vendors meeting the entrance criteria in section 3.0 below with limited Government assistance in the porting of designated Government reference WNW v4.2.X software to vendor platforms. The location of the Government's assistance can be, at the Government's discretion, at the vendor's facility or at the Government's facilities, or a combination of the two. Porting assistance is intended to precede the WIQ4 test event itself. The WIQ4 test event is planned to be conducted in January 2016 - February 2016 timeframe in a laboratory environment in two phases. Isolation will be provided for all proprietary test artifacts. Phase I will establish the baseline reference implementation to compare to each vendor's host radio platforms with respect to the WIQ Test Plan (Enclosure A-To be released on 01 OCT 2015). Phase I will execute full system (end-to-end) performance based on homogenous network testing. Phase II will execute heterogeneous network testing with Government WRIL Reference Test Radio (Baseline Waveform Interoperability), Program of Record (PoR) interoperability, and multiple NDI vendor interoperability. Phase II will be an exercise to evaluate vendor Problem Report (PR) troubleshooting, root cause analysis, quality control, and documentation processes (Enclosure B-PR Process Overview-To be released 01 OCT 2015). The WRIL will witness and provide limited assistance to vendors' efforts to root cause, take correction actions, and document the PR process. All WIQ phases will be executed at SPAWAR Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic in Charleston, SC. Test reports will be provided to the participating vendors. 3.0Entrance Criteria (1)To participate in the WIQ4 event, vendors will be required to provide radio quantities, and ported waveform versions, as follows: Five (5) radios with WNW version 4.2 (or over the air (OTA) interoperable equivalent). (2)Documentation to enable the Government to assess the vendor's likely ability to meet the following by 1 SEP 2015: a.NSA User Partnership Program (UPP) or Commercial COMSEC Evaluation Program (CCEP) participation for Type 1 Encryption on a tactical radio or a valid application filed and recognized by the National Security Agency (NSA) for the same. b.Standing or approved application for JTN or DoD Information Repository (IR) access and requisite Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) related to WNW with effective dates that run for no less than 10 months following the completion of WIQ4. Each interoperability Quick-look participant/vendor must provide all necessary ancillaries to operate the radio platforms in a laboratory environment, e.g., data/voice interface cables, power cables, etc. Each of the vendors must provide a plan to address loading radio configuration files and implement COMSEC and TRANSEC requirements. Any questions regarding these events and/or entrance criteria should be addressed with the Government Technical Point of Contact (TPOC): Brett Bendt, (843) 218-4543. 4.0Requested Information Interested vendors are invited to submit the system capabilities of their prospective software/hardware to include a summarized description of how they meet the requirements listed in paragraph 3.0. Additionally each vendor should provide a recommendation for schedule, location(s), and resources requested for porting assistance with respect to WNW v4.2. If a vendor is interested in participating in the subject test event but is not able to meet the entrance criteria as stated above, please contact the TPOC and PCO for further guidance. 5.0Submission Instructions and Format Interested vendors are invited to respond to this market survey by providing the following information: (1)Name and address of applicant/company (Corporate/Principal Office) (2)Name, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of point of contact (3)Summarized description of how they meet the requirements listed in paragraph 3.0. Include current version of reference implementation for WNW supported by proposed vendor platform. This is not a request for proposals. PM TR is only seeking sources through market research at this time to determine industry interest in participating in WIQ4. The Government does not make any promise or guarantee that by submitting a response to this RFI that the vendor will be selected to participate in WIQ4. The Government will respect proprietary markings submitted for this market survey. The Government requests that vendors segregate and mark proprietary documents. The Government will provide the vendor with an acknowledgement of receipt of its response to this RFI. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this market survey or any follow-up information requests. Submittals will not be returned to the sender. 6.0Submission All responses regarding this RFI announcement shall be submitted electronically to the Contract Specialist Lee Alexis at Lee.Alexis.civ@mail.mil in Adobe PDF format. All documents must be submitted by email no later than 4:00 EDT on 10 JULY 2015. ---Change 1--- The purpose of this amendment (Change 1) to the announcement, is to provide clarification regarding Government support to porting of Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW). Government support to porting of WNW will be in the form of expert consultation and can include on site collaboration at no cost to the vendor for the labor and travel costs of the Government personnel. The Government will not fund any of the vendor's costs. While it is the primary intent of porting support for WIQ4 to assist qualified vendors moving from a previous version of WNW to WNW 4.2, support can be allocated to a zero base port of WNW. This does not constitute an agreement or commitment by Government that a complete port of WNW or a specific version or a specific performance level will be realized as a result of the Government support.
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