SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- TRADOC Irregular Warfare
- Notice Date
- 12/20/2010
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Fort Eustis Contracting Center (W911S0), Building 2798, Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5538
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5538
- Solicitation Number
- W911S011IW
- Response Due
- 1/3/2011
- Archive Date
- 3/4/2011
- Point of Contact
- Shaina McKeel, 757.878.3166
- E-Mail Address
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Fort Eustis Contracting Center (W911S0)
(shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a Sources Sought announcement seeking only Small Business responses in order to determine Small Business Participation in this acquisition. As described below, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command Center Fort Eustis (MICC-CE) intends to procure contract support of its Irregular Warfare mission. The U.S. Army TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G2) seeks contract support of its Irregular Warfare/Joint Training Center of Operational Innovation and Creativity (JTCOIC) mission in Newport News, Virginia. The JTCOIC engages and manages government, industry and academic collaborations to provide a focal point for experimentation and innovation in replicating the complexity of the operational environment and meeting the demands of training forces and leaders to conduct full spectrum operations. JTCOIC engages in a holistic effort to bring the complexity and competitiveness of current and future operational environments to bear by providing the context (conditions and threats) for all of the Army's learning efforts; operational and institutional. JTCOIC contributes to operational adaptability by providing live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) capabilities that enable individual and collective training in realistic, variable, interactive environments. Qualified sources shall assist TRADOC by providing support in the following areas: Provide JTCOIC Director's Office program management and oversight mission support. Under this effort, Contractor provided support to the JTCOIC Director's Office contract support will include (a) providing administrative support including planning, processing and executing the JTCOIC Director's travel program through the Defense Travel System (DTS); (b) providing facility management and acting as the interface with Government property managers to ensure facility issues are quickly and completely addressed and providing management of the JTCOIC's property, (c) processing all visitor security clearances, and (d) providing information technology support as necessary. Provide JTCOIC Operations Directorate mission support. Under this effort, Contractor provided support to the JTCOIC Operations Directorate will include strategic communications, managing the current operations of the organization and planning for the future. The Contractor shall integrate JTCOIC extant capabilities with efforts at the TRADOC Centers of Excellence (CoE) to execute Army Learning Concept (ALC) 2015 in the present time/current fight. The Contractor shall assist the CoEs in the development of methods and technologies to fully realize/accomplish the goals and objectives of ALC 2015. The task includes knowledge management, to include establishing a framework for the rapid dissemination of JTCOIC products to students in TRADOC schools, ensuring data, information and knowledge availability and usability. In conjunction with the COIC, the Ground Intelligence Support Activity, and other organizations, the Contractor shall develop and maintain access to Operating Force data by maintaining contact with deployed forces and other data repositories (COCOM Intelligence Operations Centers, Blue Force Tracking, and Distributed Ground Station sites). The Contractor shall facilitate the capture and re-use of existing knowledge assets and retention of organizational memory and create collaboration tools to transfer tacit knowledge as explicit knowledge. The Contractor shall provide web administration, portal management, and oversight of how information is shared across the organization and externally and provide security support across the organization, to include personnel security, information security, facility security, information assurance, sensitive compartmented information facility security, communications security and foreign disclosure. Provide JTCOIC Training Directorate mission support. Under this effort, Contractor provided support to the JTCOIC Training Directorate mission support will include ensuring that deploying units are aware of, and able to use Attack the Network (AtN) tools and applications that best fit their needs and training/educating deploying forces about the utility of reachback. JTCOIC trainers teach units and battle staffs how to use COIC Web-based tools and reachback early in their pre-deployment cycle, during their home station Counterinsurgency Seminar and Leader Training Programs. Trainers are available for follow-up training throughout the cycle, culminating with support during the unit's pre-deployment Capstone Exercises, such as Combat Training Center (CTC) rotations or War fighter Exercises. The JTCOIC Training Directorate provides COIC maintained Multi-Intelligence Core (MIC) web-based intelligence applications training, Request for Support (RFS) reach-back training and exercise support to non-deployed units (those deploying and those in support of combat theaters) throughout the services. Training is provided to analysts and operators at every echelon on the web-based applications that access the COIC's MIC- fused intelligence database and federated intelligence network. These applications include the ability to access and collaborate over 400 geospatial layers and over 120 intelligence layers. In the past twelve months, over 5,200 leaders, analysts and operators from all services were trained in the use of applications and reach back. Over 40 service units from Corps to BDE were supported in exercise development and execution. Provide JTCOIC Intelligence Directorate mission support. Under this effort, Contractor provided support to the JTCOIC Intelligence Directorate contract support will include research and analysis of threat networks and exercise support (e.g. training exercise participants and product development). The JTCOIC Comprehensive Look Team (CLT) provides detailed products designed to assist in familiarizing forces preparing for deployment with the enemy networks and associated threat activity within their upcoming area of operations. JTCOIC's Attack the Network (AtN) Training Team presents nine AtN training modules as part of training deploying units. Provide JTCOIC Signatures Program Directorate mission support. The Signatures Program accounts for rapidly changing enemy TTPs - target observables/signatures that focuses on the process, not just the target. Under this effort, to the JTCOIC Signatures Program Directorate the Contractor shall provide the following Signatures support: (a) Develop and coordinate threat signatures and observables into institutional training, doctrine, and TTPs; (b) Develop training materials for deployed and deploying units, including developing and coordinating researched and processed threat data into coherent training materials, and assisting in the production of M&S; (c) Develop signatures tools and references for deployed and deploying units; (d) Present signatures training to widely varied audiences, from intelligence staffs and analysts to staffs at the corps level and below. Products must be updated frequently to account for theaters of operation and changing threat patterns. Provide JTCOIC System Integration, Modeling and Simulations Directorate mission support. Within four days of occurrence, the SIMS Contractor team shall transform a report of an actual IED event into a 3-D interactive visualization. Under this effort, to the JTCOIC System Integration, Modeling and Simulations Directorate the Contractor shall develop high-fidelity video recreations of IED-related events, develop interactive gaming and constructive scenario files for the replay, study, and analysis of IED-events, transforms current instructional materials into high-fidelity video products for use in classroom and distributed environments, develop 3-D physical models for use in gaming applications, constructive simulations, and virtual simulators, develops correlated terrain models/databases for use in gaming applications, constructive simulations, and virtual simulators, provide programmatic solutions for gaming application shortfalls, and provide "Train the Developer" assistance for users and developers of new and emerging modeling and simulations solutions. Provide JTCOIC Capability Integration Directorate mission support. Under this effort, to the JTCOIC to the Capabilities Integration Directorate Contractor support will include assisting Army, Service and joint organizations in synchronizing, developing, and coordinating integrated and timely war fighting capabilities. The Contractor shall research, assess and integrate capabilities that address more immediate deployed and deploying force requirements, and identify current and emerging challenges to Army operating forces. The Contractor shall develop operational architectures to support recommended asymmetric solutions and to assess alternative approaches. The Contractor shall assist current force capability gap assessments and the extent of risk incurred by the gaps. The Contractor shall assess proposed systems for their utility, compliance with existing architectures, and ability to meet current or near-term gaps or requirements. The Contractor shall participate in the Capabilities Development for Rapid Transfer (CDRT) process by leveraging enhanced situational awareness. The Contractor shall assist with the integration of new capabilities into the JTCOIC and transfer capabilities to programs of record, as appropriate. The Contractor shall develop protection mechanisms for the solutions provided. Provide JTCOIC Training Data Lab Directorate mission support. The Training Lab takes real events from current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and overlays them on the terrain on which units are training at centers such as the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, CA, the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) at Twenty-nine Palms, CA, the Joint Multi-national Readiness Center (JMRC) in Hohenfels, GE or the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, La. Through a series of programs, grid locations and physical sites are geo-rectified, re-numbered and renamed, and placed within the CTC maneuver box or adjacent terrain. The designated NAICS code for resident training is 541990, with a size standard of $7.0 million. Your response shall include the following information: DUNS number of CAGE code, size of company (i.e., 8(a), HUBZONE, WOSB, Veteran Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, Service Disabled Veteran Owned, etc.), number of employees, and average revenue for last three years,. Your company's capability to do this type of work including, documentation of technical expertise, capability, and capacity including similar, relevant and recent (three years or less) performance capabilities must be presented in sufficient detail for the Government to determine that your company possesses the necessary functional area expertise and experience to compete for this acquisition. Include information about teaming arrangements, any mentor/prot g relationships; and evidence of your business's ability to manage growth (including any letters of credit). Responses should not exceed five (5) pages in length. It is imperative that business concerns responding to this sources sought notice articulate their capabilities clearly and adequately. The information should be sent to MICC-CE by 9am EST, 3 January 2011. Submission via email is required to shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil. Any questions should be directed to Shaina McKeel at shaina.mckeel@us.army.mil. IF A SOLICITATION IS ISSUED IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE and all interested parties must respond to that solicitation announcement separately from the responses to this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Mission and Installation Contract Command, Ft. Eustis (W911S0) 2746 Harrison Loop Fort Eustis VA
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
- Zip Code: 23604-5538
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