SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, P. O. Box 190022, North Charleston, SC 29419-9022

58 -- FORTEZZA CRYPTOGRAPHIC CARDS SOL N65236-99-R-0543 DUE 052699 POC William Tobin, Contract Specialist Code 1117BT, (843) 974-5950, William Thomas, Contracting Officer WEB: SPAWARSYSCEN Charleston, http://www.nise.spawar.navy.mil/NISEEast/Codes/10/rfp.html. E-MAIL: SPAWARSYSCEN Charleston, tobinb@spawar.navy.mil. This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation N65236-99-R-0543 is issued as a request for quotation (RFQ). The Solicitation document and incorporated provisions and clauses are those in effect through Federal Acquisitions Circular 97-11. This is a 100 percent Small Business set-aside. The Standard Industry Code is 3577 and the size standard is 1,000 employees. SPAWAR System Center Charleston has a requirement for FORTEZZA cards. A Firm Fixed Price Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract is contemplated with a base period quantities of 16,000 to 30,000 cards and options for up to 30,000 cards per year to be exercised over four years. The National Security Agency (NSA) certifies crypto cards as FORTEZZA cards. No other cards will be considered. FORTEZZA cards are based on the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCA) industry standard package and provide writer-to-reader security for local area networks (LANs). This procurement will buy FORTEZZA cards with a minimum essential requirement of encryption and decryption of data, defined to be a 30,000 byte block size, with performance at a rate of 2 Megabytes per second or faster. The FORTEZZA cards shall conform to PCMCIA Spec 2.1 for type II cards, shall be tamper-evident with processor speed of 10 or 20 MHz, Volatile Storage of 128KB of static RAM, Non-Volatile Storage -- options of 128KB or 512KB of EEPROM, Power supply Requirements of 5v plus or minus 5%, Power consumption of less than 1 watt average, Lithium cell battery with greater than seven years lifespan, Real Time Clock. CRYPTOGRAPHIC FUNCTIONS: Encryption and decryption -- SKIPJACK standard, Generate and Load Initialization Vectors, and generate Random Numbers, Initialize, Hash and Get Hash SHA-1 secure hash standard algorithm, Sign and verify Signatures NIST DSA digital standard algorithm, Get and Set Time, Timestamp and verify Timestamp -- NSA standard, Save and Restore Hash, Encryption, and Decryption cryptographic states, Load, List, Retrieve, and Delete certificates, Generate, Use and Delete encryption keys, Generate and Load Public/Private keys -- KEA and DSA standard, Wrap and Unwrap keys -- SKIPJACK standard. CARD MANAGEMENT FUCTIONS: Get Card Configuration, Status, and Cryptographic State, Check and Change User and site Security Officer (SSO) Personal identification Numbers (PINs), Automatic card zeroization after 10 SSO PIN logon failures, Automatic User lockout after 10 Use PIN logon failures, Initialize, Reset and Zeroize the card. SYSTEM PLATFORMS: PC-DOS, WINDOWS, SCO ODT and SECUREWARE, APPLE-MACINTOSH, UNIX-HP/UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, SUN OS and SOLARIS. Evaluation will be based on price and past performance. Past performance will be pass/fail. Award isto be made on a low price to a firm with acceptable past performance. The offerors shall include in the offer the following information on no more than three contracts for FORTEZZA cards; contract number, number of cards, name and address of the purchaser, point of contact's name, phone number and email address. The government will assess past performance in the areas of quality of product, conformance to schedule, business relations and commitment to small business, HUBZone small business, small disadvantaged business and women owned small business subcontracting. The offeror shall address the following past performance questions for each contract: Were there any quality issues with your product during the course of the contract? Were the items delivered in accordance with the delivery schedule? Were subcontractors utilized? Were there any problems encountered with subcontractor performance? Did the contract require a small, HUBZone small, small disadvantaged business and women owned small business subcontracting plan? Were the goals met or exceeded? The provisions at FAR clause 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors-Commercial, 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items and 52-212-5 Contract Terms and conditions Required to implement Statutes or Executive Orders apply to this acquisition. Offerors shall include a completed copy of the provisions at 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with their offers. Offers are due no later than C.O.B. 26 May 1999. When using US mail: SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, PO Box 190022, North Charleston, SC 29419-9022. Posted 05/14/99 (D-SN331626). (0134)

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