SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Geospital Cloud
- Notice Date
- 6/24/2016
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, U.S. Special Operations Command, Headquarters Procurement Division, 7701 Tampa Point Blvd, MacDill AFB, Florida, 33621-5323, United States
- ZIP Code
- 33621-5323
- Solicitation Number
- 16-P-XXXX
- Archive Date
- 7/23/2016
- Point of Contact
- Shayla J. Lucas, Phone: 813 826 2971
- E-Mail Address
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Shayla.Lucas@socom.mil
(Shayla.Lucas@socom.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- A. Introduction In preparation for milCloud 2 Phase 1, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is investigating the use of commercial capabilities to host unclassified geospatial data and provide related cloud services. The objective of this RFI is to investigate whether commercial capability exists that can host SOF-specific geospatial data and applications for FY17 pilot projects. Based on the responses and feedback received from this RFI, program representatives may choose to meet with potential offerors and hold one-on-one discussions. Such discussions would only be intended to obtain further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, including any development and certification risks. This RFI is being issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute an Invitation for Bids (IFB), a Request for Proposals (RFP), a Request for Quotations (RFQ) or an indication that the Government will contract for any of the items and/or services contained in this notice. In accordance with FAR 52.215-3, Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes, the Government will not pay for any information/items submitted in response to the RFI. No determination as to the viability of this requirement has been made at this point and there is currently no solicitation for this effort. Any solicitation resulting from this RFI will be announced separately. B. Background Special Operations Forces (SOF) require access to SOF-specific detailed tactical planning data to support military operations. To meet this requirement, highly accurate 3D BIM, CAD, and GIS data is generated through garrison production as well as mobile collection in preparation for or during ongoing crises and contingency operations. Dissemination of geospatial data is transitioning from local storage to thin-client based web services. In this model, USSOCOM uses open standards to share highly structured 3D geospatial data via web or cloud services. Using the internet as a transport mechanism means that client-server computing can be used in more situations, and more robustly, to provision SOF warfighters than has previously been possible. Emerging geospatial standards, data compression technologies, and transport also open up the possibility of updating data with expeditionary, field-collected survey information and tactical sensor data including geotagged photos. USSOCOM currently maintains high performance computing hardware, end-to-end geospatial information systems, and structured geospatial data repositories needed to support web services on classified networks. The program office is investigating the feasibility of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cloud solution to host unclassified data, services and applications. The objective of the FY17 pilots is to investigate the benefits and issues of deploying unclassified cloud solutions on commercial and / or government networks. Information collected under this RFI will inform a business case analysis and decision on whether the pilot projects could be extended and operationalized in FY18 and FY19. Two primary concepts of operations below are of immediate interest. Crowd Sourced Tactical Planning Data. Expeditionary collection of non-classified survey data to integrate with existing data products through an enterprise service-oriented architecture. In this CONOPS, the cloud service provider would host a government provided prototype web application, non-classified data, and services for disconnected mobile devices using Android and Windows operating systems. The mobile application enables SOF users to visualize and to upload user-generated geospatial content optimized for mobile (GPKG) including photos, voice, and video recordings. Data managers in garrison transfer field collected data to government networks and integrate it seamlessly into the gold dataset. Objective is to make more real-time survey information available to the SOF community. Clip and Chip. Provisioning up to 300TB of unclassified SOF-specific data for access by tactical mobile users. In this CONOPS, the cloud service provider would push very high fidelity SOF-specific terrain and 3D geospatial data via services optimized for mobile or enable download to portable storage devices (SD card, thumb drive, external hard drive, or micro cloud server) that function on a tactical mesh network. Service would allow pre-loaded mission-specific data to be available during disconnected, intermittent, and latent communication operations. One objective is to demonstrate interoperability of data, services, and interfaces. A second objective is to investigate performance at the tactical edge, operating in disadvantaged and limited bandwidth environments. Government will provide an application that allows users to draw a bounding box within a web browser and download or stream open industry standard SOF-specific geospatial datasets optimized for mobile (GPKG and OGC services). C. Request for Information For purposes of this RFI, USSOCOM would like a COTS cloud solution that can deliver capabilities to authorized users in disconnected and tactical environments. Geospatial data is already critical for combat operations, but delivering SOF-specific data via the cloud is new for programs considering FY17 pilot projects. There is no incumbent. Scope • The program office is seeking information for leap-ahead capabilities based on open standards and modular open systems that are deployable in a cloud environment. The goal is to field unique open source technologies that provide new capabilities to enhance SOF warfighter information dominance across networks, particularly highly distributed global networks. • Design approach for the efficient and secure integration and operations on multiple networks. Cross domain solutions are desired. Phased deployment: - Commercial pilots in phase one; - DoD NIPR network in phase two; and - DoD SIPR network in phase three. • While initially focused on the two use cases above, the PMO is interested in the development of enterprise data services for consumption and distribution of SOF-specific 3D BIM, CAD and geospatial data across the SOF Information Environment. These cloud services would operate on both classified and unclassified networks, and should address cross-domain and secure mobile use cases. • Considerations that would contribute to lower costs of development, deployment, and operations. Technical Requirements • Ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand global network access to USSOCOM-provided geospatial data and applications. • Ability to leverage open source, COTS and GOTS data management servers in order to connect SOF community of interest content and advance interoperability. • Highly scalable with easy synchronization of new data. • Role-based system (user, data manager, etc.). • Multiple methods for identity and access management. Users require public access, LIMDIS user and password, and CAC authentication. • Secure and compliant options for hosting and maintaining physical server based systems at the Contractor facility. • Operate in a commercial, DoD, or hybrid cloud based FedRAMP compliant network meeting DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) mandatory requirements. • Up to security information Impact Level 4: Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI, FOUO) • Technical support 24/7/365. • Reasonable exit strategy to prevent vendor lock-in. No exit costs. If your organization has the potential capability and capacity to meet the requirements through milCloud or other approved implementations, please providing the following: Architecture information 1. From a high level, what approach would you take to deliver the services to SOF? 2. Summarize the architectural environment of each possible alternative and provide a drawing or system overview. 3. Solutions leveraging or extending Service-common and proven Combat Support Agency or research laboratory components are preferred. 4. Outline the data and devices currently integrated into your architecture as well as the level of integration. Cloud Services information 5. How would you propose delivering such a service? 6. Describe the infrastructure and software used to build the service and the timelines required to implement the service. 7. What kind of customer support would be provided with this service? 8. Describe the Service Level Agreement including reliability and uptime. 9. What type of usage monitoring and metrics would be available to the Government? Access and Security information 10. Please describe the security and how you control access to the service. 11. What are integration risks? i.e. certification, accreditation, identify management, etc. Business information 12. Identify challenges and risks from an industry perspective that are associated with performing a similar effort with which your company has experience. 13. What lessons learned and risk mitigation strategies can you share? 14. Discuss use of existing DoD, Service research lab, NGA, Federal, and commercial cloud services versus standing up a SOF geospatial cloud capability. 15. Describe corporate experience with delivering specialized geospatial cloud services on past or present contracts. Please cite any existing contracts where your technical solution or service is currently being provided to the government. 16. Business size and any socio-economic factors. Contract/Pricing information 17. What is an estimated price for a one-year cloud service? If the price is based on data volume and/or usage, please provide a pricing model. 18. What is an estimated price to extend the service to NIPR and SIPR during two additional option years? 19. Please detail any proposed catalog pricing for licenses, subscriptions, storage, usage, processing, etc. 20. How would pricing be scaled for up to 300TB of data? 21. Please include Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) for planning purposes only. D. Instructions for Responding Responses to this RFI are due no later than 1200pm on 08 July 2016. Submit questions via email to the point of contact below. Please limit responses to 15 pages including architectural drawing. Responses should provide sufficient detail on new capabilities delivered and pricing ROM to inform an abbreviated business case analysis and proposed CLIN structure in potential future draft Request for Proposal. Address all questions and requirements including ROM, schedule, and risks. Feel free to provide other recommendations or suggestions on related issues not specifically addressed above. The electronic copy of your responses must be in an Adobe PDF. The first page of the submission must state the RFI title and provide the name, e-mail address, and telephone number for the individual that can be contacted for clarification or questions regarding this submission. Any proprietary data that is included in the response must be marked appropriately at the paragraph level (page level is acceptable for full page table, graphs, etc.). Any response marked proprietary at the document level will not be considered. E. Contact Information USSOCOM SOF AT&L Shayla Lucas Email: Shayla.lucas@socom.mil Ph: 813-826-2971
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 7701 Tampa Point Blvd, Tampa, Florida, 33616, United States
- Zip Code: 33616
- Zip Code: 33616
- Record
- SN04162061-W 20160626/160624235012-32c8c786923818d4b72f59960c7ec932 (fbodaily.com)
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