INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT SERVICES (ITSS) FOR US ARMY AMCOM

Notice Date

June 8, 2001

Contracting Office

Commander, U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Acquisition Center, Buiding 5303, Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5280

ZIP Code

35898-5280

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact Contracting Officer via e-mail (stephen.hayes@redstone.army.mil)

Description

The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) anticipates release of a draft solicitation for Information Technology Support Services (ITSS) on or about 15 June 2001. The purpose of this draft solicitation is to solicit industry review and comment. Proposals are not solicited by and shall not be submitted in response to this special notice. The anticipated draft requirement is to provide automation, data/telecommunications, visual information, and records management support to the AMCOM Corporate Information Center (CIC) and its customers including AMCOM organizations, DoD PMs/PEOs, other DoD organizations, and Redstone Arsenal tenant activities. Support requirements shall include operations support for computers, servers, networks, peripheral devices, and analog and digital telecommunication systems; network convergence; maintaining software productsat current release levels;; systems analysis, systems engineering, and programming analysis for the development, implementation and sustainment of various IT initiatives; implementation for integrated telecommunicationsdata/telecommunications networks; application lifecycle management; electronic meeting system support; desktop and studio video teleconferencing; imaging support; software engineering; process improvement initiatives; and electronic commerce. The Government anticipates the requirement to be a ten-year, CPFF level of effort (LOE) (including all option years) to provide approximately 1.3 million man-hours of annual support. The anticipated strategy is to acquire this effort on a full and open competition basis, with no foreign participation allowed. The draft requirement will contain mandatory small business minimum participation requirements (including subsets for SDB, Hubzone, and Veteran-Owned small business concerns). The applicable North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes to this anticipated acquisition are 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services), 541512 (Computer Systems Design Services), 541513 (Computer Facilities Management Services), and 541519 (Other Computer Related Services). Each of these codes has an $18 million (average annual receipts) size standard. Potential offerors are advised that the draft solicitation will be issued in electronic format only via the ITSS Website. The website can be accessed via the Redstone Arsenal homepage at http://www.redstone.army.mil/. From the homepage, select the icon "Doing Business with AMCOM". Follow the Quick Start Instructions which leads to the New Acquisition Center (AC) website at https://wwwproc.redstone.army.mil/acquisition/. From the AC website, select "IT Support Services Acquisition" then select "Draft RFP". It is emphasized that hardcopy solicitations will not be issued and that it is the responsibility of potential offerors to access the ITSS website on a regular basis for the availability of the Draft RFP.*****

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010612/SPMSC009.HTM (W-159 SN50O3V7)