SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Presolicitation Notice of Contracting Action – Government intention to award noncompetitive 3-year extension to contract FA8810-13-C-0002 based on FAR 6.302-1 “only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements"
- Notice Date
- 3/30/2016
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 336414
— Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Space Command, SMC - Space and Missile Systems Center, 483 North Aviation Blvd, El Segundo, California, 90245-2808
- ZIP Code
- 90245-2808
- Solicitation Number
- FA8810-13-C-0002
- Archive Date
- 4/29/2016
- Point of Contact
- Chikaodi Akalaonu, Phone: 3106530585, Brent Jorgensen, Phone: 7195562795
- E-Mail Address
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Chikaodi.Akalaonu@us.af.mil, Brent.Jorgensen.1@us.af.mil
(Chikaodi.Akalaonu@us.af.mil, Brent.Jorgensen.1@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This announcement is a Notice of Contracting Action (NOCA) by the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Remote Sensing Systems Directorate (RS), Contracting Office (RSK), Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA. This NOCA does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government to further evaluate capability briefs, release a competitive solicitation, or award a contract. The United States Air Force (USAF) Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) to Lockheed Martin Corporation, Space Systems Company (LMSSC) for a three (3) year contract extension for SBIRS Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) and legacy sustainment for operational SBIRS ground and space systems, Defense Support Program (DSP) ground system, SBIRS Survivable Endurable Evolution (S2E2) sustainment, 24/7 operations crew support, operations site(s) support, factory infrastructure, studies, and modifications. Support to the Combined Task Force (CTF) may be extended into Fiscal Year (FY)1 7. The prospective source for this acquisition is: Lockheed Martin, Space Systems Company 6304 Spine Rd Boulder, CO 80301 Attn: David Dumont, c/o Sandy Martinsen This notice of intent is for informational purposes only and is not a request for competitive proposals. Parties interested in potential subcontracting opportunities, including small and small disadvantaged businesses, need to identify their interest and technical capability to the prospective source identified above. The Government has been contracting with Lockheed Martin under this contract for the services described since FY13, on a sole source basis because of data rights. Any persons or companies interested in this notice are to respond to the requirement(s) and submit their capabilities to the Government points of contact listed herein. The capabilities statement should address why the company believes that the prior sole source justification is no longer valid. The current contract period of performance ends 30 September 2016. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017-2019 extension is required to provide continuity of service through completion by LMSSC of the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Development (EMD) phase of the SBIRS program. The current Government projection for completion, delivery, and operational acceptance of the EMD phase and the stabilization and baselining of the SBIRS Objective System (four Geosynchronous (GEO) spacecraft, two Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) payloads, fixed and mobile systems) is 30 September 2019. This will be a sole source action, and the RFP will be issued no earlier than fifteen (15) days after publication of this NOCA solely to the prospective source identified above. The statutory authority for this action will be contracting by Other than Full and Open Competition, 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1, " Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements." A Federal Business Opportunity (FBO) Sources Sought synopsis, number FA8810-13-C-0002, was posted on 25 September 2015, to identify possible sources able to compete for the subject requirement. Interested parties were invited to respond if they could provide a comparable level of performance using technical and sustainment data, and depot, factory, laboratory, and test facilities not currently provided by the Government due to limitations in the Government's rights in data, and contractor owned and operated facilities. The synopsis closed on 13 October, 2015. The Government received no statements of capability in response to the sources sought synopsis. LMSSC has been assessed as the only company capable of providing these efforts at this time. Background: The SBIRS mission is to deliver global, persistent, infrared surveillance and environmental monitoring capabilities to the warfighters, national command officials, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), United States Strategic Command, the national Intelligence Community, and Army tactical missile warning community. The program is designed to provide a seamless operational transition from the legacy Defense Support Program (DSP) to meet jointly defined requirements in support of mission areas including, but not limited to: missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence, and battlespace awareness/characterization. Missile warning provides timely warning of strategic and theater ballistic missile attacks, including launch origin, missile typing, trajectory, and impact point. Missile defense detects, tracks and cues missile defense systems, and provides greater missile detection/tracking and hand-off to radar tracking and kill vehicle systems. Technical intelligence provides data to technical intelligence analysts to detect/collect data on evolving threats, and to characterize missiles and other infrared events/signatures/phenomenology. Battlespace awareness/characterization provides an "infrared view" of the battlefield to the warfighter, including situational awareness, targeting and assessment for command, control, and execution of joint operations. SBIRS is comprised of the following major elements: a) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites providing mid-latitude global coverage for missile warning, scanner coverage for global surveillance, and starer capability for theaters of interest and other specific areas of interest. b) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) sensors detecting missile events in polar regions and other areas of interest. c) A SBIRS/DSP ground segment consisting of fixed site interim, primary and backup Mission Control Stations and worldwide antennas and Relay Ground Stations (RGS) to relay down-linked satellite data to the Mission Control Stations. SBIRS Increment 1 is the operational system currently sustained by the existing contract. SBIRS Increment 2 is currently in development on a separate Lockheed Martin contract. Operational acceptance of SBIRS Increment 2, Block 10 is forecasted for first quarter FY17. Operational acceptance of SBIRS Increment 2, Block 20 is forecasted for second quarter FY18. Each block will transition to sustainment after operational acceptance. d) A Mobile Ground System (MGS) consisting of deployable ground units that provide the mobile processing element for DSP and SBIRS. In wartime, the MGS deploys to remote Contiguous United States (CONUS) and Outside the Contiguous United States (OCONUS) locations to provide the survivable/endurable missile warning and Nuclear Detonation detection data to national and military command elements, Combatant Commands ( COCOMs), and Command and Control centers. In peacetime, the MGS is the 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24/7) backup and contingency support for the SBIRS fixed sites. The SBIRS Survivable Endurable Evolution (S2E2) modernizes the MGS. The initial S2E2 Mobile Ground Terminals will be operationally accepted and transferred to sustainment in FYs 18 and 19. e) A Ground Communication Network Modernization (GCNM) system. This system is an Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment (ITWAA) network responsible for supporting the delivery of space based mission event data from multiple data sources to users of that data. The system receives, routes, and transmits missile warning messages to the primary and alternate missile warning correlation centers, missile warning community, NORAD, United States Northern Command, unified commands, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense. The GCNM architecture includes the primary and backup Message Distribution Centers and connections to the infrared sensor sources, correlation centers, and Subscriber Terminals Network Terminals throughout the world. SBIRS information is used to satisfy both the immediate near real-time needs of the warfighters, and the longer horizon support to protect against an evolving threat. To maintain interoperability with the forward users, SBIRS complies with information standards specified for use within the ITWAA, Theater Event System, Missile Defense, Technical Intelligence, and Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, and Reconnaissance communities. As the standards specified by these communities evolve toward standards in use within the Global Information Grid, Single Integrated Space Picture, Single Integrated Air Picture, Common Operational Picture, Future Operational Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE), SBIRS Open Framework Architecture, Enterprise Ground System, and other potential open architectures, SBIRS will evolve toward these standards to maintain interoperability with its forward users. For example, beginning in FY18, support is required for the Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC), and enterprise ground elements such as FORGE, Neptune, Common Ground Architecture, and Virtual Mission Operations Center. In 1995 the Government awarded pre-EMD phase contracts to two contractors with a planned down-select to a single contractor for the EMD phase. On 8 November 1996, the Government selected LMSSC in a competitive down-select to complete the SBIRS EMD phase. Deliverables for the EMD phase include GEO satellites, HEO infrared sensors, and the associated fixed and mobile ground elements. The contract included Total System Performance Responsibility (TSPR). The scope of work included SBIRS CLS, legacy sustainment and operations support, space systems sustainment (On-orbit/Factory Support), and CTF support. The contract also required the Contractor to provide sustainment depot, factory, laboratory, and test facilities. Because of the TSPR structure of the SBIRS EMD program, the contract did not require delivery of ground systems sustainment (technical) data. The Government is in the process of acquiring systems sustainment data/technical data packages to support a future competitive procurement of ground sustainment services, however, this data is not yet available and will be not available for the contract extension. The Government projection is that a bidders' library to support a competitive procurement of the ground sustainment services could be in place as early as first quarter of FY19 with a competitive award no earlier than FY20. In FY13, the program office elected to transfer the CLS and CTF support tasks from the EMD contract to a separate contract. As a result, contract no. FA8810-13-C-0002 was awarded to provide those services through the end of FY16. In FY15 and FY16, on-orbit spacecraft sustainment factory support and factory infrastructure were included as Engineering Change Proposals under the CLS Contract. Award of the separate CLS contract to provide these services is considered administrative in nature with the authority to contract still covered by the EMD acquisition strategy. At award of the CLS contract, the responsibility to provide CLS services remained with the development contractor. Scope of Contract Extension: The support to be acquired under this effort includes CLS and legacy sustainment for operations, maintenance, and legacy sustainment of operational SBIRS ground and space assets and DSP ground system assets. Support includes operations site support, organizational maintenance (Level 1) and depot maintenance (Level 2) of operationally accepted fixed and mobile assets, 24/7 operations crew/site support, on-orbit (Factory) space systems sustainment, factory infrastructure support, failure review boards, studies, system modifications, and interim SBIRS GEO satellite operations to the CTF. a) Operations site support. Sites/areas supported include: Mission Control Station (MCS), Interim Mission Control Station Backup (IMCSB), Mission Control Station Backup (MSCB), Survivable Mission Control Station, CONUS and OCONUS Relay Ground Stations, Survivable Relay Ground Station, European Relay Station, Readout Station Application, Satellite Readout Station, Interim Test Center, Launch and Anomaly Resolution Center, Ground Communication Network Modernization, Mobile Ground System, S2E2, Centralized Integration Support Facility, the Technical Intelligence Center, Greeley Air National Guard Base and kiosks. Support to the Virtual Mission Operations Center will be included starting in FY18. b) Organizational Maintenance. SBIRS organizational maintenance (Level 1) provides sustainment of operational hardware, software, and field (on-site maintenance). Support is performed at operational sites. Maintenance control functions include site/system schedulers, resource scheduling (e.g., hardware, antennas, test equipment), tracking and reporting of system events, on-site monitoring, troubleshooting, administration, and maintenance. Maintenance is provided for the OMC at the MCS, and OMC monitoring at the IMCSB and MCSB. Support also includes: system engineering support and test analysis support at the Mobile Ground Terminal Main Operating Base, as well as responding to Emergency and Urgent Depot Level Maintenance actions (EDLM/UDLM) and assisting the operations staff in returning the system to operational status as soon as possible. Level 1 maintenance includes operations integration support to ensure the operational baselines of the facilities are preserved, maintained, and documented at the locations listed above, system administration to maintain operations of multi-user computer systems, including network administration, network and communications engineering, backing up and restoring files, user account management, cybersecurity account management and support, Communication Security account management, communications support and management, communications testing, exercise and scenario support, test scenarios maintenance, verification of operational suitability, logistics support for the operational equipment, and media control and archive management. c) Depot Maintenance. SBIRS depot maintenance (Level 2) provides hardware and software engineering and maintenance to fixed, mobile, and field sites for SBIRS, DSP, GCNM, MGS, and OMC to resolve identified problems, maintain performance, and evolve the system consistent with changes in the operational mission. Depot maintainers work in conjunction with the level 1 support personnel and operational shift Commander to ensure reliable, redundant communication paths via hardware configuration controls to allow for continued processing of the SBIRS mission. The depot provides equipment repairs and assists the operational crews in the recommendation and configuration of hardware and software to allow for improved or alternate modes of utilization. A rapid technology insertion capability is included to target opportunities for technology insertion and automation for faster response and cost savings opportunities. Depot hardware support includes Preventive Maintenance Interval (PMI) maintenance, failure analysis, vanishing vendor management and obsolescence, vendor monitoring, replacement and service life extension engineering, hardware and software upgrades and replenishment activities for materiel items such as Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) items and coordination activities for Government cataloged and Government Furnished Equipment items, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Dependability analysis, spares analysis, spares, materiel, materiel support, inventory control, shipping and supply chain management, quality assurance, EDLM/UDLM actions, technical assistance and support. Level 2 support for fixed, mobile, and field sites provides item management and logistics support including sustaining engineering, warranties, licenses, maintenance and service contracts, maintenance data collection, metrics accumulation and analysis, technical performance measurement, failure analysis, trending, depot engineering support, system(s) engineering, system safety analysis, corrective actions, configuration and data management, quality assurance, network and communications circuit engineering support to operational and supplementary communications networks and cryptographic equipment within and between SBIRS operational facilities, training to operators and maintenance personal for the updated systems, updating training system documentation as a result of hardware and software efforts, developing installation and test plans, system documentation maintenance, integrating and performing system test of Government-furnished equipment calibration, managing and maintaining the facility infrastructure including related maintenance, modification, or improvements and civil engineering and mission supported facility power, heating, cooling, electrical, plumbing, and structural issues, and maintaining the databases that configure the system for specific operational uses and missions. As part of the Increment 2, Block 10 effort the OMC architecture will transition to and become the Assessment Sub-Element and Operational Sub-Element. Depot software support includes integration, Software Qualification Installation and Checkout support to Ops, and lab and software development test environment support. Support is provided for space and ground baseline releases, software checkout, integration and testing, version installation scheduling, installation and checkout of version deliveries, engineering to develop, test, and deliver software fixes and updates to the operational baselines, and coordinate with and exchange of information related to code changes and fixes to problems found during test phases with integration/verification testers. Support includes software integration and test functions to perform systems integration and formal test engineering for all software engineering activities, software and database maintenance, providing software solutions to resolve identified problems, improve performance, and evolve the system consistent with changes in the operational mission, updating operational software to integrate new equipment into the baseline software, maintaining the databases that configure the system for specific operational uses and missions, and software support for the MGS Maintenance and Operations Support Suite (MOSS). Depot support for the MGS also includes the Mobile Ground Terminal and Mobile Communication Vehicle, infrastructure, operational test and training suite, maintenance lab infrastructure, DSP Support System lab/Software Development Environment System Test Environment lab, and related facilities. Support also is provided for High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse recertification test and program depot maintenance actions. d) Operations Crew Support. SBIRS operations crew support provides 24/7 support to work with military crew force counterparts to accomplish missions utilizing residual DSP spacecraft and sensors, HEO payloads, and GEO spacecraft and sensors. This support includes: ground systems engineering to ensure proper operation of SBIRS software and resolution of problems and deficiencies, satellite systems engineering support for Mission/Payload Engineering, Flight Ops Support, and Vehicle Operations Engineering for the operation of the SBIRS satellite system scheduled and unscheduled commanding, monitoring health and status, planning and scheduling constellation and ground systems activities, DSP and GEO spacecraft and sensor commanding and direct support to operations, as well as mission sensor State of Health monitoring on operational satellites in the SBIRS program. On-site hardware maintenance is provided to work in conjunction with the System Crew Chief, Ground Systems Operator, and shift Commander to ensure reliable, redundant paths of data collection and communications to allow for continued processing of the operational SBIRS/DSP mission. On-site hardware maintenance and support is also provided for OMC. e) On-orbit (Factory) Space Systems Sustainment. Factory on-orbit space systems sustainment includes operations and maintenance support for day-to-day analysis of operational spacecraft and sensor performance, including maintaining required performance, responding to anomalies, and providing required operational support products. Support is provided for laboratories and the support environment(s) on which the Flight Operations Support and Flight Software/database maintenance activities are performed. Factory support is required for flight and ground software development, maintenance, satellite production, and operational support. CLS sustainment includes anomaly response and resolution, state of health monitoring and maintenance, flight operations and command product updates, mission and payload trending, launch and early orbit testing and tuning, system engineering, lab simulator maintenance and on-orbit software maintenance to include software validation, qualification and certification. f) Factory Infrastructure Support. This effort provides the factory facilities and equipment (simulators, emulators, hardware-in-the-loop assets, software tools, software licenses and maintenance agreements, communications, etc.) required to perform the SBIRS enterprise-wide activities associated with development, production, and on-orbit operations as well as depot support for operational assets. Factory infrastructure includes the support to sustain the factory facilities, lab facilities, test beds, and equipment (hardware, software and interfaces) at the SBIRS Auxiliary Support Center in Sunnyvale, CA and the Satellite Payload On-Orbit Test Station in Azusa, CA. Support includes operations support facilities, laboratory facilities, information assurance, and system assessment and authorization (certification and accreditation). g) Failure Review Boards (FRBs). FRBs perform specialized study efforts to fully resolve the root causes of spacecraft and sensor anomalies. The FRB effort provides support to an on-orbit SBIRS HEO/GEO anomalous condition that requires protracted root cause analysis or reach-back/reach-forward investigations beyond the initial investigation and restoration to operations. h) Studies and System Modifications. Studies are utilized to study obsolescence, new requirements, changes in user data needs or interfaces, or changes in technology. System modifications are utilized to perform modifications to ground and space systems to implement system and facility modifications, address obsolescence, changes to operational procedures or system configurations in response to deficiencies, failures, new requirements, evolving requirements, changes in user data needs or interfaces, changes in technology, service life extension, enhancements, or Government furnished equipment. i) Combined Task Force (CTF). CTF includes support to provide qualified contractor crew and support personnel to conduct uninterrupted interim SBIRS GEO satellite operations within the Interim Test Center. CTF provides resources to perform crew training, evaluations, and system regression tests. The CTF will be discontinued when SBIRS Ground Increment 2, Block 10 is delivered and operationally accepted. Some of the effort performed under CTF (for example, crew knowledge network, mission management and mission planning, orbital analysis, Distributed Communications Controller administration and Air Force Satellite Communications Network administration functions) will transition from the CTF to CLS and legacy sustainment when the CTF is discontinued. CLS and legacy sustainment also includes tools, equipment (e.g., test and support), program management, business operations, program support, cost management, site leadership and administrative support, meeting participation and support, sustainment and support of training labs and suites, simulators, systems engineering and integration activities, integration, test and evaluation, system regression testing, Systems Engineering Integration and Test and analysis, Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals, delta training support, technical order management, interface(s) support, specifications, drawing and Interface Control Document management, modeling and simulations, models and simulations plan updates, contractor test team support, risk and trade-off analysis, information assurance and system assessment and authorization (certification and accreditation), cybersecurity, information technology security and risk management, systems security engineering, program security/protection, reliability, availability, maintainability, and dependability engineering, system safety engineering/hazard risk tracking analysis, specialty engineering, requirements compliance, architecture development, horizontal integration, SBIRS Integration Support, and communication and integration support across the SBIRS enterprise. This notice expires 15 days after publication. Submit all inquiries to this notice by 5:00pm PST on 14 April 2016 to the Contracting Officer, Captain Chikaodi Akalaonu at Chikaodi.Akalaonu@us.af.mil. U.S. Postal Service addressed to: SMC/RSK, 483 N. Aviation Blvd, Los Angeles AFB, El Segundo, CA 90245-2808. The Government will not pay any cost associated with the submittal of information solicited herein. All communications that contain proprietary information should be marked as such. Written responses only will be accepted.
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