2020.05.18 TRAC2ES RFI.pdf

Request for Information (RFI)

For

TRANSCOM Medical Regulating and Command

& Control Evacuation System (TRAC2ES)

This Request for Information (RFI) is being issued for informational and planning purposes only. The information requested will be used within United States

Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) as market research to facilitate decision making (i.e., determining acquisition strategy, small business concerns, etc.) and will not be disclosed outside the Government. Proprietary information submitted shall be appropriately marked. USTRANSCOM is requesting responses from both small and large businesses to determine industries’ ability to provide the necessary services.

This is NOT a formal request for proposals and the Government may or may not solicit and award any resultant contract based on the information received. USTRANSCOM is not seeking or accepting unsolicited proposals for this requirement. This notice should not be construed as a commitment of any type by the Government to take or not take any action. Please note USTRANSCOM will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties in responding to this RFI.

A. Background/Description:

TRAC2ES combines relevant doctrine, policies, processes, and procedures along with an automated decision support system to manage the Department of Defense (DoD) global patient movement process. TRAC2ES functions within a global network to assist in the command and control of joint combined and component inter- and intra-theater patient movement. It provides for patient movement monitoring, forecasting, and planning to support both fixed and deployable operations and includes medical regulating and patient evacuation. TRAC2ES provides in-transit visibility, transport-to-bed solutions, and command & control decision support to both the defense transportation and medical communities, and medical support information to the medical community. TRAC2ES supports the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Joint Staff, Combatant

Commanders, and USTRANSCOM during war, peace, contingencies, and operations other than war.

The objective of this requirement is to provide software development support and expertise for TRAC2ES Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) & Secure Internet Protocol

Router (SIPR) environments. This includes all software code and associated components and integrations. Software development support shall include any phase of the Software

Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including concept development, planning, requirements elicitation and analysis, systems design and development, coding and testing, deployment, implementation, integration, troubleshooting, security posture, documentation, and software application maintenance and sustainment.

The current contract is HTC711-16-F-D024 with Booz Allen Hamilton.

The anticipated Period of Performance for this requirement is a one-year base period with four one-year option periods, as shown below:

Base: 1 June 2021 – 31 May 2022

Period 1: 1 June 2022 – 31 May 2023

Period 2: 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2024

Period 3: 1 June 2024 – 31 May 2025

Period 4: 1 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Place of Performance: Tasks shall be performed at the contractor’s location (which meet accredited physical security requirements) and Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this effort is541511 Customer Computer Programming Services. The Small Business

Administration small business size standard is $30.0M.

A draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) is attached and the Government requests comments from industry to clarify any ambiguities. These comments will be addressed when the final PWS and RFQ are issued. Comments are excluded from the response page limitation.

B. Special Requirements

Contractors shall hold an active Secret clearance to match the classification of the material in which they will be handling. Additionally, any contractor-owned or leased facility shall be accredited to the appropriate security level of the classification of the data being hosted.

C. Information Requested

Interested parties are requested to submit the following information in the format outlined below. The response should be detailed (no more than 10 pages) and address only the information requested below (title pages, cover letter, etc., will not count against the 10-page limit). Respondents are highly encouraged to submit a tailored response rather than a generic capability statement to ensure the needed information is provided. The response should include the following information:

a) Company Information.

i. Company name and address

ii. Company representative and their contact information

iii. CAGE Code and DUNS Number

iv. Socio-economic (e.g. SDVOSB, Other than Small) status under NAICS

541511, Customer Computer Programming Services

v. Existing contract vehicles available to the Government for the procurement of this particular service, to include the Multiple Award Schedules, GSA

Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC), CIO-SP3, ENCORE III, or any other Government Agency contract vehicles. (This information on available contract vehicles is for market research only and does not preclude your company from responding to this notice.)

b) Description of your company’s knowledge and capabilities in fulfilling the TRAC2ES requirement. Specifically address the following:

i. Describe your experience with sustaining, designing, developing, maintaining, and administering complex software applications using commercial standards while adhering to Government and industry standards.

ii. Describe your experience developing, maintaining, and administering complex in-transit visibility (ITV) software applications.

iii. Describe your experience providing life cycle support implementing government-approved system changes to include software functional changes, mandated security or system changes, and other infrastructure changes to maintain a system baseline.

iv. Describe your knowledge and experience in providing Agile software development support to include managing agile projects/programs using an Application Lifecycle Management tool (e.g. Jira), use of Agile Scrum

Methodology (sprint length), product roadmaps, and recording performance (e.g. sprint burn down charts), etc. to achieve Continuous

Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

v. Describe your experience with sustaining, designing, developing, maintaining, and administering complex software applications within cloud environment (AWS, Azure).

vi. Describe your experience with continuous automation (Chef, Jenkins, etc.) and containerization ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

Provide a list of similar efforts, if any, your company has performed in the private sector and/or for the Government deemed similar to this effort. Include a brief description of the effort, contract number, period of performance, contract value, and information on how the services were procured (Firm Fixed, Price, Labor Hour, Cost Plus Fixed Fee, etc.). Identify any potential teaming arrangements for this effort.

D. Submission Information

Responses to the RFI shall be submitted in writing by e-mail no later than 0900

(Central) on June 02, 2020 to donna.l.green12.civ@mail.mil and janeanne.m.holten.civ@mail.mil.

Attachment: Draft PWS mailto:donna.l.green12.civ@mail.mil