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D -- MARKET SURVEY FOR 8(A) AND SMALL BUSINESSES WHO QUALIFY UNDER SIC 7379 SOL F19628-97-R-0337 POC Point of Contact -- Rich Tillman, Contract Negotiator, (937) 257-3571 17. This is a market survey announcement for 8(a) and small businesses who qualify under Standard Industrial Code (SIC) 7379 ONLY. Large businesses, and small and 8(a) businesses who do not qualify as a small business under SIC 7379 need not respond. Any responses from these businesses will not be evaluated. The purpose of this market survey is to determine small business/8(a) capabilities to participate as a prime contractor for this acquisition. This is the only notice being sent. If you fail to submit a package, or your package is inadequate, you will not be individually contacted. No solicitation is available at this time. The ombudsman for this acquisition is Colonel Lee H. Hughes, ESC/CX, (617) 377-5106. Please note: It is anticipated that the solicitation will be restricted from Foreign Participation. As the Materiel Systems Group (MSG) advances into the 21st century, our vision is to become the Air Force choice for all information technology support by improving data reliability and accessibility, while reducing costs of information system operations. This is achieved by maintaining, modernizing, and providing integrated information technology services to information systems that support DISA's Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE), DII-AF, C2 System Infrastructure, and are able to meet the USAF goals for information dominance today and tomorrow. The technical requirements outlined in the MSG Omnibus documents are still applicable and are under review to encompass all DII COE requirements. In response to this market survey, use the technical requirements information contained in the current MSG Omnibus WWW home page: (http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/organizations/MSG/orgs/SZ/OMNIBUS/). This effort has been renamed the Technology Infrastructure and Integration Contract or TIIC. The overall TIIC acquisition strategy calls for a maximum of four (4) awards. The anticipated TIIC ceiling is $350M over five years.The anticipated SIC code for this acquisition is 7379, with a corresponding size standard of $18M average sales averaged over the last three completed fiscal years. Firms should indicate their size status with their submission. Small businesses are encouraged to submit a capabilities/past performance package to help us determine if an award will be reserved for small business or 8(a) contractors. To qualify as a prime for the TIIC, the vendor must be rated as fully capable in all four areas evaluated. Responses to this CBD announcement shall be submitted only on a 3.5 inch floppy disk (2 copies) (IBM 1.44 MB format), Microsoft Word for Windows version 6.0 or below, Times New Roman font, size 12 point. Responses to this market survey shall be limited to 20 pages. We will not accept hard copies instead of the electronic submission and will not review hard copies submitted with the electronic submission. Each package must conform to the format found in the sample package located on the web site listed above. The page size will be no more than 8.5" x 11" with 1" margins. Submit market survey responses to ATTN: Rich Tillman, MSG/PKB, 4375 Chidlaw Road, Room C022, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 45433-5006, no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the date of publication of this notice in the Commerce Business Daily. NOTE: Section 1 will neither be evaluated nor included in the page count. Contract points of contact should be attached and are not included in the page count, however you must ensure contract and task order information cited are directly related to the experience described. The Government reserves the right to contact any or all of the points of contact cited in your package. Section 1 -- Not Evaluated a) Brief introduction of company history, include annual sales data to support inclusion under SIC 7379 (limit two pages) b) Discuss any potential conflicts of interest that may impact upon your ability to fully participate in this acquisition. c) Download and complete survey of system architectures, relational database management systems (RDBMS), and languages supported. (Located on the worldwide web home page cited above. The survey is to be submitted on the same disk as the market survey response.) Section 2 -- Evaluated Clearly describe your firm's expertise and depth of experience, preferably as a prime, in each of the following areas. Provide examples. Examples should be as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor with clear responsibility for accomplishment of a contract/task, and pertain to the requirements of this acquisition. Identify most current experience first and the remainder in chronological order. Ensure that contract(s) and task order(s) cited are directly related to experience described. 1. Management of Multi-Disciplinary Teams in an Information Technology Environment a) Manage multi-disciplinary teams and resources, on multiple concurrent projects and/or task orders, at geographically dispersed sites, and in information technology environments similar in complexity and content to that of the MSG. b)Use of project management tools, including cost, schedule, performance, and quality assurance controls c)Work in a partnership arrangement with the government, using Integrated Process Team (IPT) or equivalent methodologies 2. Central Design Activity (CDA) Technical Support in Sustainment/Maintenance a) Support large, complex management information systems (MIS) in large-scale batch and/or high-volume transaction environments (Note: This is generally analogous to a system containing approximately several hundred or more modules supporting in the vicinity of one million lines of code) b) Manage overall system administration functions of a large, complex MIS, including responsibility for such activities as data integrity and security, recovery of corrupted data, elimination of data redundancy, hardware and software preventive maintenance, production control, and returnto service experience c) Provide customer user support functions, including batch and ad hoc report generation, help desks, documentation updates, systems surveillance, etc. 3. CDA Technical Support in Enhancement/Modernization a) Migrate systems from mainframe architecture to an open architecture, client/server environment (reengineering, rearchitecturing). b) Recognize and apply state-of-the-industry technologies to continually mature/evolve existing systems. Examples of this are: object-oriented/fourth order languages programming, multi-distributed client/server processing c) Transition systems to a shared data environment, containing standard data elements, facilitating global access via a distributed computing environment d) Standardize/model/integrate data, and integrate two- or three-tier architectures for distributed systems, and integrate Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software/hardware with Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) e) Support Integration and Runtime Specification (I&RTS) as applied when transitioning a system to the COE f) Reuse software components/modules/segments g) Develop secure Web applications and integration of databases with a Web based front-end h) Analyze a customer's business processes and integration of a reengineered system to enhance those processes 4. Network/Communication Support a) Manage the interface to telecommunications systems, both data and voice, including telephone switches, microcomputer networks, local area networks, wide area networks, and terminal networks connected to mainframe and minicomputers, and video tele-conferencing b) Establish and sustain networks with multiple users (minimum 100) that are geographically dispersed (at least 3 sites nationwide) c) Manage overall operating functions of a large-scale computer environments, including responsibility for such activities as computer network operations, server hardware and software maintenance, customer support, and production control d) Show, recognize and apply state-of-the-industry technologies to continually mature/evolve existing communication networks (0125)

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