SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- The Allied Command Transformation Integrated Capabilities Support (TACTICS) - IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13 Solicitation Package
- Notice Date
- 9/24/2015
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 561499
— All Other Business Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, NATO, HQ Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Purchasing & Contracting, Norfolk, VA, 7857 Blandy Rd., Norfolk, Virginia, 23511-2490
- ZIP Code
- 23511-2490
- Solicitation Number
- IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13
- Archive Date
- 12/5/2015
- Point of Contact
- Tonya Bonilla, Phone: 7577473575, Catherine Giglio, Phone: 757-747-3856
- E-Mail Address
-
tonya.bonilla@act.nato.int, catherine.giglio@act.nato.int
(tonya.bonilla@act.nato.int, catherine.giglio@act.nato.int)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13 Enclosure 1 GUIDEx IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13 Annex C Technical Compliance IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13 Annex B Forecast Deliverables for 2016 IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13 Annex A Quality Control Measures Solicitation / Bidding Instructions This statement of work (SOW) specifies the products that contractor personnel will be required to deliver in support of the Allied Command Transformation's (ACT) transformational programmes and initiatives. The Strategic Objectives of ACT are to provide appropriate support to NATO missions and operations, lead NATO military transformation and improve relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. In recent times, NATO has been shifting from a sustained operational campaign to a contingency readiness footing. Coincident with this shift, the Alliance has placed new emphasis on "Smart Defence" whereby nations endeavour to pool countries' buying power to equip the Alliance with shared capabilities. Furthermore, in the field of education and training, exercises and technology, NATO's Connected Forces Initiative (CFI) is focussing on a series of measures to strengthen the Allies' ability to work together in a truly connected way. Commencing in 2015, NATO has embarked on a series of large-scale, high visibility exercises involving the NATO Response Force (NRF), to help cement the NATO Training Concept 2015-2020, ensure the force is balanced, and prepared to address the full range of Alliance missions. These preparations have proved prescient, so additional adaptation measures will establish a Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) able to deploy within a few days to respond to challenges that arise, particularly at the periphery of NATO's territory. The Challenge. The shift to a contingency posture brings with it a renewed emphasis on the dynamic and unpredictable nature of future operations. In meeting the increase in volatility, ACT is charged with coordinating and supporting full-spectrum transformation for NATO, to include both human and technical dimensions. The diversity of emerging challenges to be met at speed by NATO, and the enduring need for prudent deployment of Alliance resources, demands an agile and flexible approach across a very broad and multi-faceted front. NATO's Strategic Concept, as reaffirmed at the 2014 Wales Summit, enshrines the Alliance's commitment to three core tasks: collective defence, crisis management, and cooperative security. The Strategic Concept underlines that lessons learned from NATO operations show that effective crisis management calls for a comprehensive approach involving a range of civilian and military instruments. The Concept recognises that military means, although essential, are not enough on their own to meet the many complex challenges. A Comprehensive Approach to Transformation. In more than a decade of being the lead agent for NATO Transformation, SACT has identified that a comprehensive approach is nothing less than essential to enable the fulfilment of ACT's mission. The Allied Command Transformation Integrated Capabilities Support (TACTICS) contract is designed to establish the conditions in which SACT has timely access to the leading-edge capabilities necessary to tackle challenges and problems whose size and complexity defy solutions by solely using existing staff or tools within NATO's established organisation. The TACTICS contract is an integral part of SACT's comprehensive organizational and operating strategy that enables mission accomplishment by integrating high quality deliverables from trusted industry partners, with the unique and manifold capacities of NATO's established workforce and toolset. The Desired Effect. In launching the TACTICS Contract, ACT is adopting a "Just in Time" (JIT) approach to obtaining essential technical support from industry. The JIT approach replaces earlier conventional approaches, some of which saw contractors based permanently on-site at HQ SACT for multi-year periods. Fortuitously, HQ SACT has already made important progress in adopting, partially, a JIT approach; previous employment of time and materials contracts with organic short-term surge augmentation capability has been an important step forward, proving that JIT can be made to work in ACT's business environment. The experience from several years of HQ SACT operating these contract surges, combined with the philosophy of JIT, serves to confirm the following: a) Close and active links to support an unambiguous dialogue between HQ SACT and the Contractor are of the utmost importance. This close relationship will set the conditions for mutually beneficial interaction from which both HQ SACT and Contractor can derive the shared situational awareness which is key to making JIT work.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/SACLANT/SACLANTHQ/IFIB-ACT-SACT-15-13/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Contractor Facility / HQ SACT 7857 Blandy Road, Norfolk, Virginia, 23551, United States
- Zip Code: 23551
- Zip Code: 23551
- Record
- SN03903344-W 20150926/150925000935-cd7fe93face0760eca8d1e85c8c0df52 (fbodaily.com)
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