2024.08.29 IBS RFI.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

FOR

UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND (USTRANSCOM)

INTEGRATED BOOKING SYSTEM (IBS)

TRANSCOM24D010

1. RFI Overview

In 2025, USTRANSCOM plans to have a contract in place for Integrated Booking System (IBS) that will provide technical engineering services and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management support of the IBS system.

USTRANSCOM seeks a solution that can provide Sustainment, Enhancements, Cloud & New Software Development, Configuration Management, and Information Assurance.

USTRANSCOM is seeking information about what solutions currently exist in the market and is interested in learning about what information industry may need to scope a logical roadmap to succeed.

This announcement constitutes an RFI for informational and planning purposes only.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. No contract will be awarded as a result. Industry’s response to the RFI—or lack thereof—will have no impact on the evaluation of responses to any subsequent RFP or Request for Quote (RFQ) released. The information requested will be used within USTRANSCOM as market research to facilitate decision making (e.g., determining acquisition strategy, small business concerns) and will not be disclosed outside the Government.

Proprietary information submitted shall be appropriately marked. Do not submit confidential information in your response.

**Note** USTRANSCOM will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties responding to this RFI.

1.1. RFI Contact(s)

We have designated the following individual(s) to serve as the official point(s) of contact (POCs) for this RFI. These individual(s) are the only authorized contact(s) permitted to communicate on behalf of USTRANSCOM about this RFI.

Contact information for RFI POC(s):

NAME TITLE OFFICE EMAIL PHONE

Mr. Matthew Hellmann Contracting Officer TCAQ-D matthew.j.hellmann.civ@mail.mil 618-817-9455

Ms. Lindsey Mueller Contract Specialist TCAQ-D lindsey.n.mueller.civ@mail.mil 618-817-3878

1.2. Submission Details

Please submit your response to this RFI via email to the RFI POC(s) identified in Section 1.1. and ensure it is received prior to the due date identified in Section 1.3. If you have any questions about this RFI, please direct them to the RFI POC(s) listed in Section 1.1.

Physical (paper) copies of RFI responses will not be accepted.

1.3. RFI Timeline

The RFI timeline is outlined below. Dates may be modified by USTRANSCOM and posted as an amendment to this RFI.

RFI Released: 29 August 2024 RFI One-on-Ones 17-18 September 2024 Responses Due: 12:00 (CT) 12 September 2024

1.4. RFI One-on-One Information

SAVE THE DATE: 17-18 September 2024 - Industry One-on-One Sessions via MS

TEAMS

Please follow the instructions below to request a one-on-one session.

• Submit your RFI response, including a request for a one-on-one, no later than the response due date identified in Section 1.3.

• The first 25 RFI responses received (that include a request for a one-on-one) will be allocated a 15-minute session with the requirements team.

2. Background Information

The Surface Deployment Distribution Command’s mission is to plan, coordinate, and synchronize global end-to-end deployment and distribution services to protect and sustain our nation's Warfighters in support of national objectives.

2.1. Scope of the Requirement

This contract shall serve as a vehicle to provide technical engineering services and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management support of the IBS system. IBS consists of separate Development, Non-production, Production and Fail-Over environments currently hosted in the Centralized Enclave (CE) and is in the process of migrating all environments to a Cloud Native computing platform. The contractor shall coordinate with the Government to ensure all activities synchronized and integrated with other SDDC transportation management efforts. The services provided within the scope of this contract follow Covered Defense Information as defined in Defense Federal

Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.

The PWS includes the following task areas, as two primary categories Project Management and Program Support:

• CONTRACT LEVEL & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• SUSTAINMENT & MAINTENANCE

• ENHANCEMENTS

• CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

• NEW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT / ADVANCED TECHOLOGY

APPLICATION (Capital) (LH) (OPTIONAL)

• CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

• INFORMATION ASSURANCE

• CONTRACT TRANSITION (OPTIONAL)

2.2. Place of Performance

The Government shall provide on-site space at Scott AFB for ten (10) contractor personnel. As a minimum, the Project Manager or designated equivalent for the Contractor and technical and functional POCs shall be located on Scott AFB. All additional Contractor employees shall work off-site and/or remotely.

2.3. Anticipated Award Timeline

The current contract expires 30 September 2025. A follow-on contract is anticipated to be awarded on or about 01 August 2025.

3. Information Requested

Parties interested in assisting USTRANSCOM with this market research are requested to submit the following information in the format outlined below. The response should be detailed (but no more than 10 pages). Title pages and cover letter will not count against the page limit. Respondents are highly encouraged to submit a tailored response rather than a generic capability statement to ensure the requested information is provided.

3.1. Company Information

• Company Name

• Unique Entity ID

• CAGE Code

• POCs, to include name, title, phone number, and email address

• Security Clearance – This contract is expected to require access to classified information or require a Facility Security Clearance (FCL) at the level of Secret.

Based on this expectation, does your company currently meet the requirement(s)? If no, provide a brief statement describing how and/or when your company plans to have a clearance? A final determination of required accesses/FCLs will be detailed in any resultant solicitation.

3.2. Business Size

The anticipated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this effort is 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. The Small Business Administration’s small business size standard for this NAICS is $34M. Based on this NAICS, identify your business size as a LARGE or SMALL business. If a small business, identify any of the following socio-economic categories that apply to your business under this NAICS: Historically Under-utilized Business Zones (known as “HUBZone”), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Women-Owned, or Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned.

3.3. Who We’re Looking For

USTRANSCOM highly encourages responses from capable businesses of all sizes, including large and small business concerns and all socioeconomic categories.

3.4. What We’re Looking For

Interested Parties are invited to provide information on the following subjects of interest, specifically describing your capabilities in successfully executing the following:

• Describe past experience(s) in implementing and satisfying Information Technology

(IT) solutions to Defense Transportation Regulations and requirements, as it relates to Ocean Transportation, in a military or commercial distribution environment. Provide experience(s) pertaining to Ocean Cargo movements within the Defense Transportation System (DTS) (or similar experience).

• Describe experience(s) including, but not limited to, significant challenges, recommendations, and insights; managing a large development program which delivers systems and software capabilities. Explain how you managed the contract on time, within scope and budget, while remaining flexible and adaptive to changing requirements and priorities. Provide specific examples of how you would work with the government to accomplish the above requirements starting on the first day of operations.

• Specifically describe your knowledge and level of experience when implementing the best agile IT procedures while using consistent, effective, and efficient processes, techniques, and software solutions (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservice Architecture, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API’s), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and virtual, and Amazon Web Service (AWS) Relational Database Service (RDS).

• Describe your experience relating to the preparation and submission of Risk Management Framework (RMF) packages, to include Financial Management and

Privacy Overlays, control family documentation, and continuous monitoring. Provide experience with maintaining the programs cyber security posture to include security technical implementation guides, vulnerability management, plan of actions and milestones, and Fortify code scans.

• Describe your knowledge and experience migrating to and working in the cloud.

Include migration strategies and approaches used, experience with cloud native tools and migrating systems to cloud native tools. Describe expertise in building, testing, and releasing software, rapidly, frequently, and more reliably (DEV/OPS Pipeline) to include the building of a result-oriented Test Automation strategy.

• Describe application experience using specific AWS services (e.g., compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), security, and application development, deployment, and management).

• Describe your experience in analyzing and interpretating of rules and regulations governing the transportation of DoD Ocean Freight. Developing functional requirements necessary for programming costing of new and revised rules and policies. Coordinating the development, deployment, and training on the system for all users.

Provide the following project or contract information for requirements deemed similar to this effort:

• A brief description of the project

• Contract number

• Contract type

• Commercial or Non-commercial effort

• Period of performance

• Was your company a prime or subcontractor?

• Dollar value of the project

• Scope of the portion of the effort your company supported

If your company is a large business, specify whether you partnered or subcontracted with small business concerns to provide the same or similar services as this requirement.

If your company has no direct performance or experience with the above, explain how you will perform tasks utilizing experienced subcontractors through a proposed teaming arrangement or the hiring of qualified personnel.

3.5. Commercial Availability

Commercial Practices. Request responses to the following questions as they pertain to providing IBS support.

• What types of contracts are normally used in the commercial marketplace for this type of service (e.g., single-award, multiple-award, firm-fixed price, cost reimbursement, labor hour, time-and-materials)?

• What contract length is normally used in the commercial marketplace for this type of service (e.g., base year plus four options)?

• What is the recommended pricing structure, and what are the largest cost-drivers for this type of service (e.g., labor, equipment, leases, depreciation, fuel)?

• What evaluation criteria are typical for use in selecting a contractor to provide this type of service?

• Are there any organizational conflict of interest concerns?

• Are there technologies the Government should adopt, if feasible, to improve this requirement?

• Are there challenges posed to non-incumbent interested parties that should be addressed?

4. Other Important Information

Please list existing contract vehicles available for use in procuring this effort to include Federal Supply Schedules, GSA Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts, DoD Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts (known as “IDIQs”), 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.)

Please list any existing contracts you have which could be used to procure this effort.

Provide any other suggestions or considerations to improve this procurement. Are there software advancements, industry developments, or innovative solutions to be considered?

Please feel free to provide questions and/or comments on the draft Performance Work Statement (attached), citing any information you feel may improve/innovate this requirement.

5. Conclusion

USTRANSCOM would like to thank you for taking the time to review this important RFI, and we look forward to reviewing your response.

LINDSEY MUELLER MATTHEW HELLMANN

Contract Specialist Contracting Officer 618-817-3878 618-817-9455 lindsey.n.mueller.civ@mail.mil matthew.j.hellmann.civ@mail.mil mailto:lindsey.n.mueller.civ@mail.mil

Attachment:

DRAFT Performance Work Statement