SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Services (MCEITS) Industry Day Conference
- Notice Date
- 10/13/2004
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541513
— Computer Facilities Management Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps Systems Command, 2200 Lester Street, Quantico, VA, 22134-5010
- ZIP Code
- 22134-5010
- Solicitation Number
- M67854-05-R-4903
- Response Due
- 11/3/2004
- Archive Date
- 11/12/2004
- Description
- The Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, VA will be hosting an Industry Day conference on 8 November 2004 at the Gray Research Building, Quantico, VA to provide an overview of the Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Services (MCEITS). The objective of this conference is to provide background information on this IT infrastructure modernization. The current status of the program for FY05 is for the strategic planning and definition of the technical architecture. R&D funding is not scheduled to be provided for the development of the net-centric services and development until FY06. Background: The Department of Defense (DoD) is committed to transforming the existing globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel to a Net-Centric Operations and Warfare (NCOW) environment that will disseminate and manage information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel. This commitment includes major transformation capabilities to be provided to the joint community by programs such as the Global Information Grid (GIG) Bandwidth-Expansion (GIG-BE), Transformational Communications Architecture (TCA), Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), and end-to-end information assurance (IA). When implemented, these programs will provide the Marine and/or Joint Force Commander an unprecedented level of battlespace awareness by providing end-to-end information capabilities for accessing timely and relevant critical information in order to accomplish all assigned mission objectives. These end-to-end sets of information capabilities, defined in DoD Directive (DoDD) 8100.1 as the GIG, include all owned and leased communications and computing systems and services, software (including applications), data, security services, and other associated services necessary to achieve Information Superiority (IS). The focus of IS is to provide an understandable, multidimensional, real-time, fused view of the battlespace to the future Marine and/or Joint Task Force (JTF) Commander by providing information capabilities that will support the full range of military operations, including the highest intensity conflict. These capabilities are also required to support all DoD, National Security, and related Intelligence Community strategic, operational, tactical, and business missions and functions, in war and peace, from all operating bases, posts, camps, stations, facilities, mobile platforms, and deployed sites. It also includes National Security Systems (NSS) as defined in section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. These capabilities also include interfaces to coalition, allied, and non-DoD users and systems. The MCEITS Universal Needs Statement (UNS) [03169IT], approved in January 2004, established the Marine Corps? need for a modernized Information Technology infrastructure. The Marine Corps' Information Technology (IT) infrastructure is characterized by a highly decentralized set of applications, web-sites, and databases supported by a manpower intensive workforce. Standardization, security, and system configuration management has proven extremely difficult. The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), a component of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), is expected to bring improvements to network connectivity and throughput. The Marine Corps must leverage these enhanced capabilities to realize a greater return-on-investment (ROI) with respect to NMCI. Maintaining disparate IT staffs at numerous locations across the Marine Corps is expensive, inefficient, and unsustainable. Certain IT services are common to many users of the MCEN. These common services include such things as messaging, security, collaboration, infrastructure management, application development, testing and certification services, help desk support, continuity of operations planning (COOP), and perhaps most significantly access to shared data. The Marine Corps needs to develop a common IT enterprise services environment that consists of platforms to support shared services, an Enterprise Shared Data Environment (ESDE), web-based portal technology, and enterprise class data centers. For the Marine Corps to maintain its combat overmatch capabilities in future operations, the Marine Corps Enterprise IT environment shall focus on providing capabilities that support tactical and support operations with a particular emphasis on the expeditionary nature of the Marine Corps warfighting operations. To establish the Marine Corps? net-centric environment, a new IT architecture must be transformed from the old environment using network-centric systems engineering concepts. It must be deployed and maintained using the modular and interoperable architecture of the GIG. The MCEITS program and framework will represent the U. S. Marine Corps (USMC) transformation strategy to provide and use NCOW capabilities. It is the intent of the USMC to meet GIG and GIG Enterprise Services (GES) strategic plans and technological guidance in accordance with the GIG Capstone Requirements Document (CRD). Implementation of MCEITS capabilities will provide this infrastructure and is the instrument that will enable the Marine Corps to use and provide net centric warfighting capabilities. MCEITS will align with, use, and mutually support the GIG?s globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities that will provide information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and supporting personnel. The Marine Corps Enterprise ?to-be? and existing environments will eventually converge via NCOW concepts to include all Marine Corps strategic, operational, tactical, and business missions and functions by providing information capabilities fused from all operating locations. This environment will create the ability to ingest, analyze, and distribute key information in real-time across the DoD?s global operations. Conference: Attendance to this Industry Day is recommended for all vendors interested in MCEITS; Hardware and Software vendors, in addition to System Integrator Vendors. Communications related to this program will be via the Contracting Officer at isi_contracts@mcsc.usmc.mil only. Identify MCEITS Industry Day in the subject line of the email. Individuals interested in attending industry day must submit the following information, no later than 3 November 2004, to isi_contracts.usmc.mil: Company Name Company Address Name of Attendees (limit of 2 persons per vendor) Attendees Phone Number Attendees Title Attendees E-mail address Identify whether Hardware provider, Software provider or Systems Integrator Please refer to the MARCORSYSCOM web page http://www.marcorsyscom.usmc.mil/sites/itm2k/projects/MCEITS_ID/MCEITS-ID-MAIN.asp for further updates and information on MCEITS.
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- Record
- SN00693641-W 20041015/041013212147 (fbodaily.com)
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