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A -- INTEGRATION & DEMONSTRATION OF COTS SOFTWARE IN SUPPORT OF NIMA MINT PROGRAM SOL NMA201-99-R-0004 DUE 090399 POC Steven J. Johnson, Phone: 301-227-7817 This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Requirement: What follows is a statement of work. The contractor's proposed contract type will determine the CLIN structure of the resultant contract vehicle. BACKGROUND: The Multi-source INtelligence Toolkit (MINT) will be a collection of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) applications and unique Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) tools and services that provides value-added support to the exploitation community. MINT goals include the following: (1) Develop a software environment to provide integrated COTS & GOTS geospatial and image analysis tools to support multi-souce exploitation; (2) Conform to the United States Imagery and Geospatial Information Systems (USIGS) Architecture and theDefense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DII COE); (3) Promote participation from multiple COTS vendors; and (4) Transition existing GOTS-based functionality to the MINT environment. The Geospatial and Imagery Exploitation Specification (GIXS) is the agreed upon framework for all MINT development activities. Sun's Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) specification has been selected as the basis for the GIXS framework. Additionally, the GIXS will also contain the Interface Definition Language (IDL) for the various services being developed as part of MINT. The migration to COTS-based tools meets NIMA's strategic goal of fostering increased use of COTS across the Imagery and Geospatial Community (IGC). The purpose of this procurement effort is to provide a COTS-based robust tools set for all NIMA customers. This effort will facilitate the incorporation of MINT services into COTS products as well as providing a mechanism for the evaluation and analysis of MINT services and frameworks. BASELINE MINT1.0 SERVICE DESCRIPTION: The following are descriptions of the services scheduled for the MINT1.0 delivery: (1) Import Service -- Import IDL will be presented for inclusion into GIXS/Geospatial and Imagery Access Specification (GIAS) as appropriate. The imports will create standard file formats to allow for ingest into a Library, an Electronic Light Table (ELT), or file management abilities within the Site Data Manager Service; (2) Conversion Service -- The conversion IDL will utilize and enhance the GIXS/GIAS data structures. The Image Writing interfaces will be presented to the USIGS Interoperability Profile (UIP) working group for inclusion into GIXS/GIAS as appropriate. The File Conversion service will provide integrators with a service-level interface for implementing requirements previously satisfied by MATRIX file conversion functionality; (3) Image Encoder Service -- Used to write out any image format and is a part of the total conversion service; (4) Site Data Manager Service -- Provides the ability to store references to images on disk and tape allowing users to query information on those images and plot results to standard mapping packages. It will use a standard GIAS interface; (5) Image (Tiling) Services (Rendered Image / Image Access Service) -- The Image Services will perform Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC) required imaging operations. IEC requirements include the NITF 2.0 and TFRD formats (1.3, 2.3, and 4.3). Additionally, some simple image processing operations have been added including image re-map and scaling for anamorphic correction; (6) Reduced Resolution Data Set (RRDS) Generation Service -- Will provide ELT vendors and other non-ELT integrators with a service-level interface for implementing requirements previously satisfied by MATRIX RRDS functionality based on existing libraries and utilities; (7) Geomensuration Service -- Provides image-to-ground and ground-to-image transformations with uncertainty, migrates Ruler & Front-end Processing Element (FPE) functionality into distributed computing environment; (8) Registration/Combiner Services -- Provides image registration and combining services to allow image overlay, change detection, and mosaic creation; and (9) Special Services for Classified Support -- Provides classified functionality. CONTRACTOR TASKS: For all tasks listed herein the contractor shall coordinate schedules with the government. The contractor shall apply the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software development to the software development tasks listed herein. Responsibilities for the contractor shall consist, at a minimum, of the tasks described below. 1. MINT Framework and Requirement Analysis/Evaluation. 1.1 The contractor shall analyze MINT Program requirements (see the Baseline MINT1.0 Service Description), including software and hardware architecture requirements, functional requirements, and performance requirements, in order to determine the ability of its COTS product(s) to meet these requirements. The Contractor's analysis of requirements shall include, at a minimum, a determination of: (1) Which requirements are satisfied by its existing COTS product(s); (2) Which requirements may be addressed by potential future improvements in its COTS product(s); (3) Which requirements will need future applications development by the contractor; and (4) Which requirements the contractor cannot support within its COTS product base. 1.2 The contractor shall provide evaluations of the evolving GIXS framework and the JAI specification and GOTS functionality. At a minimum, the evaluations shall include the following subtasks: 1.2.1 Provide support for short and long term correlation of the framework/specification capabilities to USIGS requirements; 1.2.2 Identify the shortfalls and propose solutions to those shortfalls; 1.2.3 Identify potential future improvements to the framework and specification; and 1.2.4 Identify strategies for the migration of existing GOTS functionality to the MINT environment. 2. Integration and Prototyping Activities. In cooperation with MINT service providers, the contractor shall integrate MINT services and provide an integrated capability via its COTS product(s). At a minimum, the contractor shall integrate all MINT1.0 delivered services as described under the Baseline MINT1.0 Service Description, into its COTS product(s), via product(s) upgrades and/or interface changes. The contractor shall provide plans for integration of services, milestone schedules and delivery schedules. The integration tasks are as follows: 2.1 Technical Analysis. The contractor shall analyze the technical issues associated with the integration of MINT services into its COTS product(s). The contractor shall investigate the integration of MINT services using the following technologies: Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), (direct) Application Programming Interface (API), and Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI/Jini). The contractor shall provide plans for integration of services as part of the technical analysis. 2.1.1 Based on the technical analysis, the contractor shall develop a milestone schedule for the integration, test and prototyping activity of its COTS product(s) with integrated MINT services. The milestone schedule must be approved by the government. 2.2 Integration and Testing (I&T). The contractor shall conduct the following I&T activities: 2.2.1 The contractor shall conduct I&T activities for MINT integrated services based on test plans approved by the government. 2.2.2 The contractor shall support installation and integration activities at all demonstration sites. 2.2.3 The contractor shall support NIMA and NIMA customer evaluations and environment testing. 2.3 Prototype Delivery. The contractor shall design four commercial prototype versions of its COTS products, each demonstrating the integration of MINT services using the four different technologies cited above. The contractor shall have these prototypes available for prototype demonstrations no later than 10 months after award of contract. 2.4 Prototype Demonstration Activities. Based on the Government schedule but within two months of prototype availability, the contractor shall conduct prototype demonstrations of its COTS product(s) containing the integrated MINT services. Up to six demonstrations shall be conducted at the following locations: the contractor's facility (1), the NIMA Integrated Test Environment (NITE), northern Virginia (3) and the following NIMA customer site: Hickam AFB, Honolulu, HA (2). All demonstrations will be up to three days in duration. The demonstration duration times include the time necessary for NIMA staff to familiarize themselves with the demonstrations. The demonstrations shall be conducted to acquaint users with all aspects of the COTS product(s)'s functionality. 3. Program Management. The contractor shall provide the program management effort necessary to perform the work required for each task defined in the SOW. To accomplish this task, the contractor shall: 3.1 Employ all project management elements including client communications and interface, program cost and schedule control, subcontractor management, and contract management to ensure that NIMA's objectives are met in relation to the tasks in this SOW. 3.2 Provide project status reporting including delivering monthly status reports with progress on tasks and technical issues. 3.3 Provide Line Of Code (LOC) counts and Line of Code costs ($/LOC) with break-outs between new, modified and reused code. LOC counts and $/LOC should also be broken out by type of activity and associated complexity. 3.4 Participate in community coordination activities associated with demonstrations, tests, and implementation activities that involve external interfaces. Participate in special studies, Technical Exchange Meetings, Working Group Meetings, or similar functions related to the requirements herein as directed by the government. At a minimum, the contractor shall participate in the following activities: (1) USIGS Interoperability Profile (UIP) development process which includes monthly meetings (held in Melbourne, FL) and e-mail reviews; (2) Four NIMA Tools conferences (with one to be held in California and three in the Washington, DC metro area); (3) Two MINT demonstrations (with one to be held in California and one in the Washington, DC metro area); and (4) Two User evaluations of MINT conducted at the NITE. 4. DELIVERABLES. The contractor shall provide MINT program documentation in softcopy, unless specified otherwise. Monthly status reports shall be delivered in hardcopy and softcopy form. The contractor shall supply the deliverables listed in the following sections. 4.1 Contract Workplan which is due 30 days after contract award. 4.2 Milestones and Release Schedules. The contractor shall provide schedule(s) to include, at a minimum, the following: (1) Milestones depicting completion dates for the integration, testing and prototyping of its COTS product(s) providing the integrated MINT services; and (2) Release dates of the COTS product version(s) that includes these services. 4.3 Monthly Status Reports. The contractor shall provide monthly status reports on the 15th of every month. At a minimum, monthly status reports shall include the following: (1) Accomplishments during the period; (2) Plans for the forthcoming period; (3) Issues and concerns; (4) Hours used against budget; and (5) Incurred/proposed travel. 4.4 Plans, Evaluation and Analysis Reports. The contractor shall provide report(s) to include, at a minimum, the following: (1) Descriptions of the performance, robustness, and ease of integration associated with the described tasks; (2) Plans for integration of MINT services into its COTS product(s); (3) Comments and recommendations of appropriate modifications to the evolutions of the GIXS framework and JAI specification; (4) Test plans for integrating and testing its COTS product(s) with integrated MINT services; and (5) Reports of I&T results. Other Requirements: 1. The period of performance for this requirement is approximately 12 months. By mutual agreement, the period of performance may be extended to futher explore the contractor's COTS product(s) capabilities or perform more demonstrations of the technology. 2. An Offeror must possess a Top Secret SI/TK Facility clearance at the time of proposal submission as well as appropriately qualified personnel with same clearance level to perform certain tasks herein in order to be considered for award. Prospective Offerors are requested to provide a proposal for the requirement defined above. Proposals must contain sufficient technical and pricing information to permit the government to adequately evaluate the proposals. Awards may be made to more than one Offeror who meets the minimum requirements in accordance with the Government's best value evaluation. This solicitation's provisions and clauses are those in effect through FAC 97-12 and the current version of the DFARS as of the date of the synopsis. The following clauses apply to this solicitation: FAR 52.212-1, FAR 52.212-2 (evaluation is based on best value of the overall requirement. Best value will include an evaluation of technical and price factors. Technical subfactors that may be considered in making a best value determination include the following: (i) degree to which stated requirements are met, (ii) special features of the supply/services that are required in effective program performance capabilities that are not provided by comparable supply/service, (iii) past performance, and (iv) environmental and energy efficiency considerations.). Price subfactors that may be considered in making a best value determination include the following: (i) proposal prices, (ii) any cost sharing terms, and (iii) contract type. FAR 52.212-3 and DFARS 252.212-7000 (both to be provided with proposal). FAR 52.212-4, FAR 52.212-5 and DFARS 252.212-7001 (appropriate clauses will be defined at time of award, IAW w/ the FAR and DFARS) and DFARS 252.204-7000 and 252.212-7004 are also applicable. These clauses are not applicable if items are ordered via GSA/Agency Schedule/Contract Vehicle (except DFARS 252.204-7000 and 252.212-7004). In this case, the Schedule/Contract Vehicle terms and conditions shall apply. An Offeror will be ineligible for award if it is not registered in the CCR. All information technology must be Year 2000 Compliant IAW the definition under FAR 39.002. Proposals shall be sent to Steve Johnson via fax to 301-227-5573, via e-mail to johnsonsj@nima.mil or to the address provided herein. In order of preference, questions may be e-mailed, faxed, mailed or phoned. Proposals must be provided no later than 3 September 1999, 1400HRS EST. Posted 08/20/99 (I-SN370622). (0232)

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