SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Sources Sought for Policy Analysis Support Services Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Notice Date
- 3/8/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Contracting Center of Excellence (NCR-CC), 200 Stovall Street, 11TH Floor, Alexandria, VA 22331-1700
- ZIP Code
- 22331-1700
- Solicitation Number
- W91WAW-12-R-0052
- Response Due
- 3/22/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/21/2012
- Point of Contact
- Carl Silverstone, 703-428-0918
- E-Mail Address
-
Contracting Center of Excellence (NCR-CC)
(carl.silverstone@us.army.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Questions for Sources Sought Announcement Policy Analysis Support Services - Combating WMD W91WAW-12-R-0052 Synopsis: This pre-solicitation sources sought announcement is for information and planning purposes only; it is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. A contract may not be awarded as a result of this sources sought announcement. Army Contracting Command - National Capital Region (ACC-NCR), on behalf of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-3/5/7, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and Proliferation Policy Division (DAMO-SSD), intends to procure services for research and analytic support within the three pillars of Combating WMD (CWMD): Nonproliferation, Counterproliferation, and Consequence Management. This sources sought announcement invites potential Offerors to submit information that will allow the Government to determine the Offerors' potential to be viable competitors. This notice is not a request for proposals. The Government will not be liable for payment of any response preparation expenses. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Combating WMD and Proliferation Policy Division requires services of a contractor to continuously study and assess the impact of United States Government (USG) and Department of Defense (DoD) decisions and guidance in the arms control and CWMD arenas and, to the extent possible, shape those decisions to reflect Army positions while minimizing negative impact on Army operations. One person will be located in Huntsville, Alabama supporting the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), while the remainder of the contractors will work in the National Capital Region. All contractors must, at a minimum, have a SECRET security clearance (TOP SECRET for the Huntsville position.) Responsible small business concerns are to outline their experiences in the following four key areas OR tasks that are specific to the requirement in determining small business capability. Areas or tasks where a contractor does not have prior experience should be annotated as such. The following will be evaluated by the Government for all responses: a) Offerors' statement(s) of capability b) Offerors' experience and qualification c) Offerors' understanding of the requirement Offerors are to outline their experiences in all of the following areas: 1. Resource Management and Capabilities Assessment. Describe your ability to assess Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) of arms control treaty requirements and capabilities, with the goal of ensuring that Army requirements under arms control treaties are properly stated and that adequate funding is received for their implementation and compliance, taking into consideration PPBE and resource management concepts, processes, players, timelines and procedures, fiscal law, the time value of money, unfunded requirement resolution procedures, and lessons learned. Performance Work Statement (PWS) section 3.1.1. Describe your ability to prepare a Program Objective Memorandum (POM), as well as your ability to identify, analyze and publish the administrative instructions and financial constraints that affect the preparation of a Program Evaluation Group (PEG) briefing. PWS section 3.1.2. Describe your ability to record the evolution of resource requirements from the program years to the budget years for arms control treaties, agreements, and initiatives, as well as your ability to analyze the changes in resource requirements and funding, based on evolving treaty planning assumptions, operational experience, and Congressional, DoD, and Service Headquarters funding adjustments and apply the results to an audit of the current FY President's Budget submission. PWS section 3.1.4 2. Arms Control Treaty Implementation and Compliance. Describe your ability to implement and oversee compliance with international and regional arms control treaties and agreements, to include, inter alia: Treaty on Open Skies, Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention, U.S.-International Atomic Energy Agency Integrated Safeguards, such emerging USG policies as land mines, cluster munitions, directed energy and autonomous weapons systems, and other operational requirements without specific provision in Title 10 United States Code, but that are requirements of the USG, DoD, or international initiatives. PWS sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9. This will be accomplished by studying and assessing the scope and impact on Army operations of international, USG, DoD, and Army implementation and compliance reporting and certification requirements; inspection and visit requirements; data exchange and declaration requirements; and notification requirements in accordance with U.S. laws, regulations, Nonproliferation policy; Security Cooperation and Partnering activities; arms control treaties, agreements, and initiatives; Confidence- and Security-Building Measure (CSBM) regimes; export control regimes; and conventional weapons and emerging arms control initiatives. 3. Formulating and Defending Policy. Describe your ability to assess and influence the content of such policy and guidance documents as the National Military Strategy, National Military Strategy for Combating WMD, Quadrennial Defense Review, Defense Planning Guidance, Army Strategic Planning Guidance, Army Posture Statement, Unified Command Plan, and Combatant Command and Service Component Command plans. PWS section 3.10. Describe your ability to assess USG, DoD, Joint, and Army CWMD Consequence Management policy issues, to include determining the impact of domestic, foreign and combat-related Consequence Management and nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) Surety on Army operations, plans, force structure, training, and resources. Describe your ability to defend Army Consequence Management positions in DoD and Interagency policy forums. PWS section 3.11. Describe your ability to assess USG, DoD, Joint, and Army arms control, Nonproliferation, and Security Cooperation and Partnering/CSBM policy issues, as well as your ability to defend associated Army positions in DoD and Interagency policy forums. PWS section 3.2. Describe your ability to assess USG, DoD, Joint, and Army Counterproliferation policy issues, including, but not limited to, WMD Elimination, WMD Interdiction, and Nuclear Command and Control, as well as your ability to defend associated Army positions in DoD and Interagency policy forums. PWS section 3.10. Describe your ability to draft Reports to Congress and respond to Congressional Inquiries. PWS section 3.10. 4. Manpower. Describe your ability to provide, in sufficient number, analysts who: have expertise in arms control and CWMD issues, PWS sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9. have expertise in resource and program management, PWS section 3.1. are proficient in Pentagon staffing and general correspondence procedures, PWS section 3.1. possess at least a SECRET security clearance, Appendix B Section 1.5. Only small businesses are to submit capability packages. Interested small business concerns in NAICS code 541611 with a size standard of $7,000,000.00 are encouraged to submit their capability packages. The capability packages for this sources sought market survey are not expected to be proposals, but rather statements regarding the company's existing experience in relation to the areas specified above. Capability packages must not exceed 10 pages and must be submitted electronically. All contractor information must be submitted no later than 12:00 PM EST on 22 March 2012. All interested small businesses that possess the capabilities addressed herein are encouraged to respond to this pre-solicitation notice by providing the information specified within 14 days of this notice. Respondents are requested to submit one electronic copy of the response to Mr. Carl Silverstone at carl.silverstone.civ@mail.mil and Mr. Geoffrey R Gill at geoffrey.r.gill.civ@mail.mil. Include "Combating WMD Policy Analysis at HQDA" in the subject line, for tracking purposes only. All requests for further information must be sent via e-mail to Carl Silverstone and Geoffrey Gill. Telephonic requests for additional information may not be honored.
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- Address: The Pentagon Pentagon 23 St & Crystal Dr Arlington VA
- Zip Code: 22202
- Zip Code: 22202
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