MODIFICATION
63 -- TSA Test Options Industry Day - OT Templates - QT Templates - RALOT Guidelines and Template: - Briefing Slides - Statistical Methodology Policy - T&E policy
- Notice Date
- 3/13/2018
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541330
— Engineering Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, Headquarters TSA, 601 S. 12th Street, TSA-25, 10th Floor, Arlington, Virginia, 20598, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20598
- Solicitation Number
- 70T04018I9NAPM033
- Point of Contact
- Scott Rooney, , Maud Lecalot,
- E-Mail Address
-
ThirdPartyTesting@tsa.dhs.gov,
(ThirdPartyTesting@tsa.dhs.gov, ontract)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- TSA already shared the T&E Guidebook for comment. This is the T&E Policy for your review and comments. Describes the statistical methodology and practices used by TSA T&E teams when analyzing test results and evaluating systems. External test organizations can leverage similar methodologies when analyzing test results. As briefed on February 22, 2018, the slides describe the Operational test Agent’s (OTA) data source acceptance guidelines for potential reduction of TSA Test and Evaluation. Provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) risk assessment methodology and guidelines. Also includes a template TSA follows for developing a system RALOT per the DHS guideline. OEMs can gain an understanding of TSA required documentation when a system change is required. Provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) risk assessment methodology and guidelines. Also includes a template TSA follows for developing a system RALOT per the DHS guideline. OEMs can gain an understanding of TSA required documentation when a system change is required. Provides template that can be used by external test organizations (e.g., OEM testing, Third Party Test organizations) to plan and/or report on test results. Provides template that can be used by external test organizations (e.g., OEM testing, Third Party Test organizations) to plan and/or report on test results. Provides OT planning and reporting templates for OEMs to gain an additional understanding of TSA T&E OT planning and reporting documentation. Provides OT planning and reporting templates for OEMs to gain an additional understanding of TSA T&E OT planning and reporting documentation. Provides OT planning and reporting templates for OEMs to gain an additional understanding of TSA T&E OT planning and reporting documentation. Provides OT planning and reporting templates for OEMs to gain an additional understanding of TSA T&E OT planning and reporting documentation. On Thursday, 22 February 2018, the TSA successfully hosted its T&E Industry Day. TSA now wants to share the following attachments to provide you with the tools to help guide you through TSA's acquisition qualification process. TSA kindly requests that you review the templates and provide feedback by COB March, 23, 2018 at the email address provided in the post. #1 attachment: Industry Day Slides: As briefed on February 22, 2018, the slides describe the Operational test Agent's (OTA) data source acceptance guidelines for potential reduction of TSA Test and Evaluation. #2 attachments: Qualification Test (QT) Templates: Provides template that can be used by external test organizations (e.g., OEM testing, Third Party Test organizations) to plan and/or report on test results. #3 attachments: Operational Test (OT) Templates: Provides OT planning and reporting templates for OEMs to gain an additional understanding of TSA T&E OT planning and reporting documentation. #4 attachments: Risk Assessment Level of Testing (RALOT) Guidelines and Template: Provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) risk assessment methodology and guidelines. Also includes a template TSA follows for developing a system RALOT per the DHS guideline. OEMs can gain an understanding of TSA required documentation when a system change is required. #5 attachment: Statistical Methodology Policy: Describes the statistical methodology and practices used by TSA T&E teams when analyzing test results and evaluating systems. External test organizations can leverage similar methodologies when analyzing test results. #6 attachment: TSA already shared the T&E Guidebook for comment. This is the T&E Policy for your review and comments. Additionally, during Industry Day, several stakeholders asked TSA to expand on any Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) rules that potential third party testing organizations and TSE OEMs would need to adhere to. Please see below TSA's answer to that question: Questions concerning OCI are fact specific and must be addressed on a case by case basis. TSA does not represent the potential third party testing organizations and cannot provide them with legal advice in this area. TSA also does not prospectively state what activities may be precluded based on participation in another. Those [organizations] with questions concerning OCI should consult with their counsel. Also, there is some general guidance from the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) below that is instructive. Also, the below general guidance from the FAR is instructive. Based largely on the language in FAR subpart 9.5, the relevant case law has divided OCIs into three groups, referred to as: 1) Biased ground rules. "Biased ground rules" refers to situations where a company sets the ground rules for a future competition by, for example, writing the specifications that its competitors for a contract must meet. 2) Unequal access to information. "Unequal access to information" arises where a company has access to nonpublic information (typically through performance of a contract) that gives it an unfair advantage in the competition for a later contract. 3) Impaired objectivity. "Impaired objectivity" comes into play when a company is asked to perform tasks that require objectivity, but another role the company plays casts doubt on the company's ability to be truly objective (for example, where a company is to give the government an assessment of the performance of firms, where one of those firms is an affiliate of the company giving the assessment).
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DHS/TSA/HQTSA/70T04018I9NAPM033/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: TSIF - Briefing Room 202, 1 West Post Office Road, Arlington, Virginia, 22202, United States
- Zip Code: 22202
- Zip Code: 22202
- Record
- SN04851915-W 20180315/180313230849-d98f1a4192f0a3b7438c1afb8a88e67a (fbodaily.com)
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