SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is actively surveying the vendor community to see if a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a General Service Administration (GSA) schedule commercial pricing a
- Notice Date
- 5/29/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, MD, 20670
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00421-03-R-5557
- Response Due
- 6/13/2003
- Archive Date
- 6/28/2003
- Point of Contact
- Vanessa Seymour, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 757-2619, Fax (301) 757-8959, - Alfred Hensler, Contract Specialist, Phone (301) 757-8939, Fax (301) 757-8959,
- E-Mail Address
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seymourva@navair.navy.mil, hensleraw@navair.navy.mil
- Description
- Input for FedBizOpps Announcement for Systems Engineering Department Requirements Management System 1. Action Code-R!! 2. Date-0529!! 3. Year-03!! 4. N/A 5. Contracting Office Zip Code-20670-1127!! 6. Classification Code- R!! 7. Naval Air Systems Command Headquarters, 21983 Bundy Road, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1127!! 8. Requirements Management System!! 9. Solicitation Number-N00421-03-R-5557!! 10. Opening/Closing Response Date-05/29/03!! 11. Contact-Air 2.5.1.3.1.3, Vanessa Seymour, (301) 757-2619!! Seymourva@navair.navy.mil 12. N/A!! 13. N/A!! 14. N/A!! 15. N/A!! 16. N/A!! The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is actively surveying the vendor community to see if a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a General Service Administration (GSA) schedule commercial pricing arrangement is a viable contract for the Systems Engineering Department (4.1) of NAVAIR. Currently, the Systems Engineering Department exists to provide, train and equip highly skilled systems engineers and engineering staff to naval aviation product teams under Program Executive Officer programs. The agreement will cover a period of five years. The total estimated dollar value for the BPA will be $5,000,000.00, which is approximately $1,000,000.00 for each year of the BPA. The anticipated effort under the BPA includes but is not limited to the following draft Statement of Work (SOW): NAVAIR 4.1 Requirements Management System Statement of Work 1.0 Introduction 1.1 NAVAIR 4.1 exists to provide, train and equip highly skilled systems engineers and engineering staff to naval aviation product teams under Program Executive Officer programs. To improve the accuracy and efficiency of established NAVAIR systems engineering processes, NAVAIR 4.1 intends to establish and use a computer-based information management system that will assist in the development, linkage and validation of system requirements and provide traceable flow down to system, design and product specifications, and test plans. 1.2 NAVAIR 4.1 has examined several alternative methods to accomplish this, and has selected an off-the-shelf software product, Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), by Telelogic. This approach is intended to incorporate and compliment established NAVAIR processes and specific formats, as well as hardware and software provided by NAVAIR 4.1's IT laboratory. This laboratory space, facilities and computing architectures, ?the Lab?, will be time-shared by multiple participating client engineering staffs. 1.3 We expect the Lab to directly assist production, review, validation, publication and maintenance of program supportive technical documentation and other related materials that may be identified as client programs mature. This may require functionality beyond capability of the DOORS software product and therefore potential exists for expansion of the Lab tool suite to include additional commercially available engineering, system engineering software tools. 1.4 Data and related information within the Lab may be classified or unclassified, may be proprietary to one or more contractors, and must be appropriately protected. The Lab must maintain a detailed, permanent historical record of changes to project documents and associated supporting rationale. The Lab must maintain traceable linkages among data elements across all related documents. The linkages must enable a capability to identify and display specific elements of all program documents that are potentially impacted by any change to any other related document. 2.0 Background 2.1 Systems engineers and other collaborators will develop capabilities, analysis and system specification information that must be readily accessible to current and future project personnel. Further, the scope and detail of the information available for the project dictates the need for computer-based tools to establish and maintain relationships among the several generations of higher-level guidance, system capability document and supporting analyses. 2.2 The information to be managed may be any or all of the following: unclassified, classified, proprietary, competition sensitive. The Lab must maintain attributes for specific data elements to allow generation of documents and reports that clearly identify the proprietary or competition sensitivity of any information they contain. All personnel associated with this work, including contractors, will be required to execute non-disclosure and information protection agreements as well as appropriate security clearances. 2.3 The information management system software will be installed on NAVAIR provided computing resources, with security and access controls as specified by NAVAIR operating instructions. Equipment, software and connectivity, after initial configuration and start-up operation, will be provided by NAVAIR, however the system may be moved to Navy Marine Corps Internet (NMCI) hardware and software in the future. The contractor must verify that the planned NAVAIR computer systems and software meet the needs of this program as defined below. 3.0 Scope 3.1 This Statement of Work supports NAVAIR 4.1 in evolving collaborative functional processes and management tools to gather and review ideas, generate requirements for detailed study or analysis and report results within the client project teams, and to exchange this information with selected customers. It establishes the operation of a computer-based information management system to facilitate requirements documentation development, system specification coordination, design development tasks and test planning. The project should improve functional processes by incorporating new information technologies and training client program staffs in their use. It should reduce requirements review and development cycle times and allow for measurement of the system?s effectiveness and efficiency in managing selected documentation and technical relationships. It should provide a capability to link detailed, specific system requirements to system capabilities, facilitate analysis of future mission task expansion and identify deficiencies in existing baselines. It must provide program systems engineers and supporting contractors the capability to develop, document, coordinate, analyze, generate and maintain long-term history and change traceability of systems requirement and specification information at a detailed level of reference. Gap analysis among the multiple levels of system specifications is an important part of the expected functionality. 4.0 Specific Requirements 4.1 Configure a computer-based Requirements Management System (?the system?) on NAVAIR provided hardware and software to reside within NAVAIR workspaces designated by NAVAIR 4.1. Provide an information management system with the capability to develop, review, coordinate and link related information concerning system capabilities within established information domains. Provide requested analyses of linked data to client program personnel, their contractors and customers. 4.1.1 Expand and refine the information and documentation domain of the system as required to support evolution of technical baselines and test plans. 4.1.2 Populate the system with any existing, provided reference data to establish a detailed set of reference and historical data for client program use. 4.1.3 Enhance and tailor system capabilities to the specific functions and processes identified by client programs to improve the functional processes for producing and reviewing documents. 4.1.4 Develop procedures for methodical review of program documents that allows focused examination and linkage to other plans and programs. 4.1.5 Coordinate with client System Engineers for system utilization scheduling, project meeting support and travel requirement. 4.1.6 Coordinate with NAVAIR 4.1 any system hardware and/or software upgrades required or recommended for any work under this SOW or extensions thereto. 4.2 Identify to client System Engineers and to NAVAIR 4.1 any technical issues or problems associated with installation or operation of the system. Document such issues and identify potential solutions in the monthly report. 4.2.1 Provide controlled, selective capability to distribute for review, validate and attribute to source, all inputs received; consolidate suggested changes and incorporate all changes adjudicated by designated proper authority by update of all effected documentation contained within the system. 4.2.2 Provide the capability to produce working and final copies of selected information and documents (e.g. Operational Requirements Document, System Specification) from the system database in accordance with client program prescribed formats. 4.2.3 Recommend introduction and incorporation strategies of additional commercially available engineering - system engineering software tools into the Lab when client requirements cannot be met by current Lab configuration or functionality. 4.3 Provide the capability to exchange selected data between the Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS), and Microsoft Office software to allow client program and other designated personnel to develop and review requirements at their normal office workstations using Microsoft Office desktop applications. 4.4 Provide a user's manual for the purpose of training designated client program personnel. Train such personnel on new processes and system operating procedures, in accordance with the user's manual, to include development, coordination and production of documents, linking and tracing of information within the system and use of templates and other parts of the reference database. Include typical procedures for data analysis and validation in the manual. 4.5 Coordinate with client project system engineers, program stakeholders and customers as required to facilitate data collection, development, analysis and reporting. A primary goal of these visits will be to coordinate efficient and effective automated/electronic information exchange with the system. 4.6 Execute information protection, clearance and non-disclosure agreements with client project teams, NAVAIR and other military agencies as required. 5.0 Coordination, Reporting, and Administration 5.1 NAVAIR 4.1 will provide access to facilities as required to review and exchange system/program information on a regular basis within the established IT laboratory area. The Lab will include facilities to store classified/sensitive/proprietary working papers and data (media disks, hard drives, etc.), and access to copiers, e-mail, fax and telephone equipment while working on site in addition to required system hardware and software. 5.2 In the event of limitations of NAVAIR 4.1 on-site workspace, the contractor will be expected to develop system functionality, populate the system with data and develop products at appropriately secured contractor facilities. The contractor is expected to transfer this information to client program personnel both electronically and via regular site visits. 5.3 Travel of contractor personnel from NAVAIR HQ, Patuxent River, MD to client program work locations will be authorized in accordance with negotiated, client project plans. The contractor may be required to work with personnel and agencies in support of system operations away from Patuxent River NAS. Any such travel requirements will be identified to the appropriate client program point of contact and approved prior to commencement of travel. 5.4 Provide a Monthly Progress, Status and Management Report to NAVAIR 4.1 and each client System Engineer. This report will contain, as a minimum, contractor progress on assigned tasking, areas for Lab growth and expansion of functionality, technical concerns and problems, program-related meetings, issues or concerns, and funds and labor hours expended. All monthly report correspondence should be sent to: (To be determined) 5.5 The contractor may be required to purchase incidental computing system supplies and other material in direct support of these tasks. 5.6 Direct liaison between the government customer and the contractor may take place in the normal disposition of business as needed. The contractor will maintain memoranda of any contractual and other appropriate issues discussed during these meetings. 6.0 Contract Data Requirements List (CDRLs) Contracted delivery items below will be provided to NAVAIR 4.1 and client system engineers. Format and content will be in accordance with good business practices. Item Due Status Reviews As required Contractor's Progress, Status and Management Report Monthly ? Contractors? electronic format is acceptable It should be noted that intermittent travel, which may be required, would be specified within individual task orders. The Government anticipates release of the electronic RFP on or about 30 June 2003 with an anticipated closing date of 30 July 2003. The proposed contract award date is approximately September 2003. There is no commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation, make an award or be responsible for any monies expended by any interested parties in support of the effort mentioned above. Information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit or award a contract. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized on the Federal Business Opportunities website, located at www.fedbizops.gov. It is the potential offerors responsibility to monitor this cite for the release of any follow-on information. Responses to this announcement shall be submitted no later than close of business on 13 June 2003 to: Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Attn: Ms. Vanessa Seymour (2.5.1.3.1.3), Building 441, 21983 Bundy Road, Patuxent River, MD 20670-1127 Attn: D.O.O.R.S. Electronic responses are recommended and encouraged and should be submitted to Vanessa Seymour at Seymourva@navair.navy.mil. If providing the information electronically, please ensure that the information is compatible and accessible using Microsoft Office 98 software. Points of contact for contracts are Vanessa Seymour at Seymourva@navair.navy.mil, telephone (301) 757-2619 or Al Hensler (PCO) at hensleraw@navair.navy.mil, telephone (301) 757-8952. Technical point of contact is Douglas Garrett at GarrettDR@navair.navy.mil or telephone (301) 342-2142.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Naval Air Systems Command Headquarters,, 21983 Bundy Road, Patuxent River, MD,
- Zip Code: 20670
- Zip Code: 20670
- Record
- SN00334381-W 20030531/030529213621 (fbodaily.com)
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