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D -- SOFTWARE CAPABILITY EVALUATIONS (SCE'S) POC Major Dale Hawley, Contracting Office, 617-377-6797; Ms. Cathi Sparaco, Technical Contact, 617-377-8491. The Software Center at Electronic Systems Center (ESC/ENS) is planning to award multiple contracts of $3M value to interested 8a certified companies to conduct Software Capability Evaluations (SCEs) for DOD and non-DOD Programs. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University created the SCE technique as an effective tool to evaluate the software development process capability of offerors and contractors supporting the Government.The findings of an evaluation detail an organization's strengths, weaknesses and risks as well as software process depicted in the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Version 1.1. SAF/AQ has issued an Acquisition Policy letter (94A-009) dated 23 Aug 94, mandating that all Air Force C3I and Management Information Systems Programs that are software intensive, use SCEs in source selection. Selecting and monitoring contractors with established software process procedures will reduce program risk and cost. The ESC/ENS needs to improve its ability to conduct timely SCEs during the source selection process and contract monitoring mode for software intensive programs. ESC resources to conduct SCEs are minimal, thus, up to three (3) contractors will be selected to conduct SCEs for DOD and non-DOD Programs on a timely basis in order to ease the burden on ESC resources. An Organizational Conflict of Interest Clause will be included in the contract to preclude awardees from pursuing any supply or service contract or subcontract for the system or its major components for which a SCE was conducted. The contracts will be Firm Fixed Price, labor-hour contracts for Indefinite Quantity, Indefinite Delivery, with delivery orders placed on a labor hour basis. The duration of the contracts will be two (2) years with an option to extend the period of performance to three (3) years. The contract value for each contract will be $3M. Contract awards are planned for January 1996. All interested 8a certified companies may send capability statements outlining corporate and personnel familiarity/knowledge of SCEs to ESC/SB, Attn: Mr. A. Hart within ten (10) working days of this publication. At a later date, those 8a companies that expressed an interest will be asked to present their corporate and personnel capabilities to ESC/ENS from which award eligibility will be made. Those companies selected would then be asked to submit a proposal for technical and cost evaluation and for award determination. (0180)

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