58 -- SOURCE SOUGHT FOR VOICE, VIDEO, DATA CONVERGENCE PROJECT

Notice Date

December 12, 2000

Contracting Office

Bid Office, SPAWARSYSCEN, Code D21B, 53570 Silvergate Avenue, Bldg. A33, Room 0061, San Diego, CA 92152-5112

ZIP Code

92152-5112

Solicitation Number

N66001-01-X-0001

Response Due

January 16, 2001

Point of Contact

Cathy Moore, 619-553-9311

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the POC via e-mail. (mooremc@spawar.navy.mil)

Description

This serves as a SOURCES SOUGHT notice for the Voice Video Data Convergence Project in support of the GIG Pilot Project, which is an Office of the Secretary of Defense (ASD C3I) initiative. The Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet (CPF) Fleet Information Technology Service Center (FITSC) has been designated executive agent for the GIG Pilot Project, and in turn has assigned the Regional Information Technology Service Center- Pacific Southwest (RITSC?PACSW) to plan and execute these projects. The VVDC Project has the objective to test the ability to converge voice, video and data over a high speed SONET/ATM backbone. The VVDC project has the objective to explore new and improved capabilities as well as the economic benefits associated with the convergence of voice, video and data over a high speed Sonet/ATM backbone. To meet this objective, a prototype-pilot under the GIG Pilot Project will be formed to evaluate the capabilities and assess the economic impact of selected commercial products that have promise of attaining operational suitability for Navy enterprise at some time in the future. The VVDC project will be conducted by RITSC?PACSW in cooperation with commercial vendors that desire to demonstrate the capabilities of their products to the GIG project office. The VVDC Project affords selected vendors an opportunity to set up and conduct, at their own cost, a demonstration of their products and systems on an actual RITSC?PACSW network to assess and validate concepts of Voice, Video and Data convergence over an ATM MAN. The selected vendors will be asked to develop plans to fully demonstrate the capabilities of their particular equipment, conduct those demonstrations, and report the results, all under GIG Pilot VVDC project oversight and monitoring. Approximately 15 commands in the San Diego Region will be involved as system demonstration sites for the VVDC evaluation project. The intent is to have one or two demonstration vendors at each of the 9 GIG Pilot Bases. (Not all vendors will be at all sites.) As the VVDC project progresses, additional commands may be selected to participate depending on the VVDC equipment capabilities and other factors. The key areas of interest which will be considered in the evaluation of the white papers are: Cost Effectiveness: The proposed system design should provide insight into the total cost of operations as well as new techniques to reduce the cost of operations and maintenance. These include maximizing personnel resources, identifying training requirements, the need for additional or the restructuring of staff, reduced equipment costs, purchase or lease options and maintenance contracts Security: The military must communicate reliably and effectively under extremely adverse conditions and this imposes stringent requirements upon the system design. The system must operate securely and reliably in the worst possible environments, up to and including war. In addition, the system must maintain full functionality of existing Military Unique Features such as survivability (diversity), interoperability with FTS/DISN/DSN/PSTN/GETS, emergency services (911), critical assured services. Techniques to address access control, authentication, authorization, accounting, auditing, denial of service, eavesdropping, encryption, malicious activities, power outages, physical security, sabotage, terrorism, security policy, policy management and policy enforcement must be highlighted. Technology that integrates or enhances the operation of military security components is desired. Examples of these components include STU-III, STE, KG-75, Taclane, Fastlane, NES. Reliability: System reliability particularly during adverse periods is critical. The nature of military communications is that the need for reliability increases in proportion to the size of the threat. Threat conditions create greater system loads, occur during periods where the probability of system and security attacks is higher and occur at a time when reliability is required the most. The greater the threat, the greater the system load and the greater the potential for attacks on the system. All calls should complete (capacity). If a call cannot be completed, high priority users should receive preferential service. The voice communications system should be fault tolerant with distributed fail over capability across the enterprise Performance: The POTS has established a standard for reliability, performance and expectation that must be maintained. A very high percentage of calls must be completed with a probability of blockage no greater than GOS P.01, tone quality must be maintained and only small end-to-end delays are tolerable. IAW OASD communication directives, system should support Multi Level Precedence and Preemption MLPP functionality. Capacity/Scalability: Systems must meet current capacity requirements and be scalable to meet future growth. Combined voice/data loads for the region's telephone system (CATS) are currently 56,000 phones. This number is expected to grow. Manageability: Improve Manageability in each of the following key areas: Fault management, Configuration management, Accounting management, Performance management, Network management and Security management. Demonstrate improved system administration functionality through ease of moves, adds and changes, real time alarm reporting and system backup and fault restoration. User profiles (class of service and restrictions) should be able to be modified in groups vise provisioning on a per user basis. Increase Productivity: The proposed system should highlight techniques to improve productivity through the use of new features and technology. One to one (point -to-point VTC), one to many (lecture -broadcast mode) and many to many (multi-point VTC) integrated voice, video and ITU T.120 data communications and collaboration services are required in order to increase productivity. The respondents to this sources sought should provide a white paper, limited to 10 pages. White Papers should include: (1) description of the proposed system, (2) capabilities and specifications of the system: being sure to address (2a) survivability and reliability, (2b) capacity/scalability, (2c) manageability and (2d) maintainability, (3) proposed system architecture, (4) estimated system cost to include cost of operations and maintenance, (5) production/development status. This announcement is a sources sought for planning purposes and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement will be issued. The information resulting from responses to this source sought and from the VVDC demonstrations will be used for technical and future acquisition planning. Systems proposed in the White Papers must be either existing technology or near existing (pre-production prototype). The government invites comments related to possible purchase or acquisition strategies. Please include in your responses all existing contract vehicles (including GSA) for your system. All data received in response to this sources sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary information will be fully protected from release outside the government. It is not the intent of the government to reimburse providers for the cost of submitting information in response to this source sought, or for costs associated with participating in the technology demonstration. Please direct any questions to the POC, Mrs. Cathy Moore via e-mail (mooremc@spawar.navy.mil). Interested vendors should submit White Papers by 4 P.M. on January 16, 2001 to the POC via e-mail or via two (2) complete sets of hardcopy materials to the above address to the attention of the POC. Target date for notification of vendors selected for the demonstrations is February 1, 2001. This notification will provide additional information necessary for the installations. Installations shall be within 60 days of notification and the operational evaluations will run until September 30, 2001. The selection of vendors for the demonstrations will be based solely on information presented in the White Paper responses

Web Link

Click here for a copy of this notice and any updated (https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20001214/58SOL012.HTM (W-347 SN5087I1)