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Notice Date

November 5, 2001

Contracting Office

Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC Division Newport, Simonpietri Drive, Newport, RI, 02841-1708

ZIP Code

02841-1708

Solicitation Number

N66604-02-R-0286

Response Due

January 31, 2002

Point of Contact

Brett Griffin, Contract Negotiator, Phone 401-832-2150, Fax 401-832-4820, Email griffinbp@npt.nuwc.navy.mil -- Emanuel Cannata, Branch Head, Phone 401-832-1441, Fax 401-832-4820, Email cannataem@npt.nuwc.navy.mil

Description

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) anticipates placing an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract or contracts under multiple award evaluation for engineering services. The solicitation shall be unrestricted. The contract shall contain Cost Plus Fixed Fee provisions. The period of performance shall be five (5) years. Provisions of the contract shall allow for both term and completion type orders. The total level of effort shall be 153,000 hours. The following information provides a background and scope of the work to be performed: The capability to conduct relevant and representative Warfare Analysis is a fundamental responsibility and technical leadership area of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Effective warfare analysis is a crucial component for the success of the Center. Warfare analyses provide the insights that enable the Center to most effectively apply our limited resources to address fleet needs, for today and for tomorrow. The mission of NUWC Undersea Warfare Analysis Department is to provide the analysis information that enables the Center to: Understand and help shape the emerging warfighting context; Develop rationale for the start and continuation of relevant programs Lead formulation of investment trades and strategies. The Center?s warfare analysis capability is comprised of people, models, data, knowledge, facilities, and experience within and across the product lines. The Center?s Warfare Analysis products cover a broad range, including: Visions/context, Conops development, ,Concept studies, Early operations assessments (EOA), Intelligence analysis, Cost and affordability analysis, System performance analysis. The Center established an USW Knowledge Management (KM) Team to support analytic modeling by researching, synthesizing and disseminating information to USW analysts. Documents gathered will support USW analysts by serving as input to SIM II based studies in support of current and future USW analyses. The Strategic Management Information Center (SMIC) is a resource asset available to the KM Team and the USW analysts. The SMIC provides a single-site resource with electronic access to business and technical data throughout the Division. The SMIC repository of data is relevant to USW analysis because it provides specific programmatic and budgetary information that can facilitate cost performance analysis in support of USW programs. Computing Facility: USWAL. The Undersea Warfare Analysis Laboratory (USWAL) is a high performance classified computer facility that provides the infrastructure for the development of high fidelity performance models, the execution of models and simulations, the storage of data, connectivity to external secure facilities, and working areas for analysts and software developers. The USWAL design and development has been an ongoing project based solely on an open-systems architecture incorporating major computer industry standards. Overview of SIM II: SIM II is one of the mainstay models in the Undersea Warfare Analysis Laboratory (USWAL) testbed of models. Since its inception, it has been applied to naval tactical problems extending in force complexity from one-on-one submarine combat to composite force scenarios involving air, surface, and subsurface elements. SIM II is designed for the modeling of systems with widely differing missions and characteristics. The program is a multi-platform, variable tactic simulation that, because of its construction, allows extreme flexibility in the choice of tactics, command decisions, environments and platform characteristics. The threat platforms are modeled with their own tactics, platform and sensor characteristics. The program employs stored event and statistical modeling techniques. It is and has been used in a wide variety of studies to investigate sensors, weapons, vehicle operating characteristics, and/or tactics. SIM II takes into account the temporal variability of the acoustic environment, input characteristics, uncertainty and human performance fluctuations. SIM II's functionality (methodologies and algorithms) includes detection, operability, classification, target motion analysis (TMA), communications, decision-making and tactics, platform dynamics, weapons, and countermeasures. A major feature of SIM II is that it is input driven, meaning that data and parameters that characterize and define the environments, sensor characteristics, platform characteristics, and tactics are user-defined and not hard-coded in the program. The compiled program is designed to accept and process inputs describing the type of element (platform) under consideration, desired tactics, and characteristics of the physical background. A major feature of SIM II is that the tactics for every platform are defined by the user, are inputs to the model, and are rule-based. The decision-making uses an expert-system-like rule base of commands (orders and tests) that is written by the user to describe what the policy should be for any conceivable combination of targets and situations. The tactics also use a rule base of commands (orders and tests) written by the user to describe the actual maneuvers and orders for a given policy. Users also define the high-level Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), such as mission success probability, and the Measures of Performance (MOPs) for every SIM II effectiveness study. These are extracted from the SIM II output file by several auxiliary programs. Because of its structure, virtually any item of interest can be output to support unique performance measures. Scope of Work: The purpose of this contract is to obtain contractor services to: Conduct warfare analysis studies to define current and future force, platform and system performance and shortfalls in order to: Understand and help shape the emerging warfare context Develop rationale for the start and continuation of relevant programs to meet needs Lead formulation of investment trades and strategies Utilize operations research methods and tools to provide analytic answers to warfare analysis problems. This includes the development and use of new warfare analysis models. Execute, maintain, and improve the SIM II study process, which includes: Running SIM II and all associated software comprising the SIM II system Developing and maintaining study databases Generating SIM II inputs Designing and implementing operational tactics using the SIM II language Identifying process improvements Providing user training Perform SIM II software lifecycle development activities, such as design, implementation, configuration management, problem debugging, testing, user support and documentation. Conduct analysis of at-sea measured data, exercises, and real-world events for tasks such as model validation, exercise planning or reconstruction, and Fleet performance analysis. Conduct Cost Performance Tradeoff Studies Provide support to knowledge management analysis activities, such as research, database development, data entry and web site support. The Contractor shall support the use of knowledge management tools such as Group Systems. Provide program management and administrative support to warfare analysis activities, such as maintaining study records, preparing presentation material, and generating reports. The Key categories of labor are: Analyst Operations III (ANO3) 12,000 hours, Analyst Computer Systems III (ANCS3) 12,000 hours. The Non-Key categories of labor are: Analyst I (AN1) 5,000 hours, Analyst II (AN2) 5,000 hours, Analyst III (AN3) 9,000 hours, Analyst Computer Systems II (ANCS2) 8,000 hours, Analyst Computer Systems III (ANCS3) 12,000 hours, Analyst Management I (ANM1) 5,000 hours, Analyst Management II (ANM2) 9,000 hours, Analyst Management III (ANM3) 9,000 hours, Analyst Operations I (ANO1) 15,000, Analyst Operations II (ANO2), Computer Programmer I (03071) 3,000 hours, Computer Programmer II (03072) 6,000 hours, Computer Programmer III (03073) 6,000 hours, Word Processor I (01611) 4,000 hours, Word Processor II (01612) 2,000 hours, Word Processor III (01613) 8,000 hours. Award of contract(s) shall be made on a Best Value basis. The technical evaluation sub-factors are listed as follows in descending order of importance: Past Performance, Personnel and Technical Approach. Personnel and Technical Approach are equal. This requirement is a combination of the work performed under the previous NUWCDIVNPT contracts N66604-95-D-A139, N66604-97-D-5775 and N66604-98-D-2171 with Sonalysts, Incorporated. Our department no longer issues solicitations or amendments in paper form. Instead, they may be accessed at our web site http://www.npt.nuwc.navy.mil/contract/. We also provide electronic access in our Bid Room.

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