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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF DECEMBER 20, 2007 FBO #2215
SOURCES SOUGHT

58 -- Market Research for Post Deployment/Post Production Services for the Joint Network Management System (JNMS)

Notice Date

12/18/2007
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

NAICS

541330 — Engineering Services
 

Contracting Office

US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07, ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008
 

ZIP Code

07703-5008
 

Solicitation Number

W15P7T-08-R-J001
 

Response Due

1/4/2008
 

Archive Date

3/4/2008
 

Point of Contact

Debra Moretti, (732)427-0106
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07
(debra.moretti@us.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

This is only a Sources Sought Notice, not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and all information received will be for planning purposes only. The Army does not intend to award a contract on the basis of your responses or otherwise pay for the preparation of any information presented or the use of any such information. All proprietary information should be marked as such. This Market Research/Sources Sought is being issued to seek available sources to provide Post Deployment/Post Production Software S upport, and Fielding, Training, Logistics, Documentation, Engineering and Technical Support Services for the JNMS. The JNMS is targeted to provide a planning capability for the Joint Network Node (JNN) and other transport systems which would be employed in establishing a Joint Task Force backbone network. The services to be acquired for the JNMS will include integration of software (to include JNMS, Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) Software (SW) into Government Furnish ed Equipment, providing Fielding and New Equipment Training (NET) services, implementing an Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) program, generating security accreditation documents, providing security accreditation support to the deployed sites, providing post deployment/post production software support (PP/PDSS) services, Configuration Management, for the current configuration and any potential changed configuration, logistics services, Service or site specific engineering services, tech nical assistance services to the Joint community, to include manning the help desk, providing on site support to fielded sites on an as requested basis, and purchase of minimal quantities of required Software from time to time on an as needed basis, if req uired by the Government. Fielding support will include training the JNMS Staff User and System Administration functions. The user community to be fielded and or supported will include US Army, US Marine Corps, and the Missile Defense Agency. Sites will be world wide. The anticipated award date is March 2008 and is expected to cover the support for the period of April 2008 to March 2009, with two (2) option years which may extend the contract out to March 2011. The current version of JNMS being deploy ed is Software Version 1.4. Technical Requirements have been established for Software Version 1.4 JNMS baseline and can be accessed as defined below. Software Version 1.5 is being developed and will be completed in 2QFY08. It includes adding planning fu nctionality (Time Division Multiple Access - TDMA) and usability features. The government is currently developing an interface between Front Range Heat-based and BMC Remedy-based Trouble Ticketing systems which may be executed. Heat is being used to prov ide the JNN Service Desk and Reporting functionalities. Remedy is being used at Army Theater NetOps & Security Centers (TNOSC), Defense Information Security Agency (DISA), Theater NetOps Center (TNC)s and other sites. The basis of the exchange of informa tion will be the DISA Global Information Grid Standard Ticket (GST) structure. The Government does not possess detailed technical data such as drawings, specifications and software development files for JNMS Software Version 1.4 or 1.5 JNMS configurat ions or the Heat-Remedy interface. The Army currently has a contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for the JNMS. Currently SAIC is developing Software Version 1.5 under the same contract. The performance of that contra ct will end on 31 March 2008. Release 1.5 baseline is in development and is expected to be available mid-March 2008. Interested sources may view a detailed description of the system, by accessing the attachments posted to the Interactive Business Opp ortunities Page website (https://abop.monmouth.army.mil) under Solicitation No. W15P7T-08-R-J001. The following documents will be posted: JNMS Operational R equirements Document (ORD) dated June 2006; Final Draft JNMS System/SubSystem Specifications (SSS), JNMS-SSS-R1.4-01-U-R7C0, JNMS Release 1.4, dated 24 August 2007; Final Draft Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), JNMS-SRS-R1.4-01-U-R8C0, dated 10 A ugust 2007; Draft Interface Control Document (ICD), JNMS-ICD-R1.4-01-U-R8C0, JNMS Release 1.4, dated 24 August 2007 with Appendix F  Spectrum Planning Data , JNMS-ICD-R1.4-F1-U-R8C0, Release 1.4, dated 24 August 2007; Software Product Specification (SPS), JNMS-SPS-R1.4-01-U-R0C1 Release 1.4, dated 05 March 2007 with Appendix A Executable Software List for the Joint Network Management System (JNMS) Release 1.4, JNMS-SPS-R1.4-A1-U-R0C1, Appendix B Source File List for the Joint Network, Management System (JN MS) Release 1.4, JNMS-SPS-R1.4-B1-U-R0C1, and Appendix C Checksum for the Joint Network Management System (JNMS) Release 1.4, JNMS-SPS-R1.4-C1-U-R0C1; and Draft Performance Specification (PS), JNMS-PS-R1.4-01-U-DRAFT02, Release 1.4, dated 07 December 2007 . Potential Sources who believe they are capable of supplying the Army with services described above for the JNMS to include a risk management plan to ensure the Governments technical requirements and delivery schedule will be met should respond in wri ting. Technical questions must be submitted by writing. The response must include documentation such as test results, or a statement from the previous source that the supplier can, in fact, supply the required services for the JNMS. Responses to this S ources Sought/Market Survey should be submitted as follows: By mail to the Product Manager, Network Operations-Current Force, ATTN: SFAE-C3T-NCF-JOS (Bldg 2525 Bay 1), Luis Antomattei, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5000; or by e-mail: Luis.Antomattei@us.army .mil. No telephone inquiries will be accepted. The deadline for any responses to this notice is close of business on 04 January 2008.
 

Web Link

Government Office E-Mail address
(http://www2.fbo.gov/spg/USA/USAMC/DAAB07/W15P7T%2D08%2DR%2DJ001/Luis.Antomattei@us.army.mil)
 

Place of Performance

Address: US Army C-E LCMC Acquisition Center - DAAB07 ATTN: AMSEL-AC, Building 1208 Fort Monmouth NJ

Zip Code: 07703-5008

Country: US
 

Record

SN01472217-W 20071220/071218224906 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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