Attachement 1 SOW.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK

Contract Number: TBD Task Order Number: N/A Tracking Number: HQ0516-FY22-1006 Follow-on to Previous Contract Number:

HQ0516-17-A-0003

1. Contracting Officer Representative (COR).

• Primary COR.

Name: TBD Organization:

Department of Defense Activity Address Code (DODAAC):

Address:

Phone Number:

E-Mail Address:

• Alternate COR.

Name: TBD Organization:

DODAAC

Address:

Phone Number:

E-Mail Address:

2. Contract Title. Radio and Television Programming for American Forces Network

3. Background. The American Forces Network- Broadcast Center located in Riverside, California, provides stateside radio and television programming – “a touch of home” – to approximately one million U.S. service men and women, DoD civilians and their families serving outside the United States in 175 countries and aboard 140 Navy ships at sea. The AFN-BC affiliates receive programs from AFN-BC via a fully encrypted satellite transmission (currently Cisco Systems/Scientific Atlanta’s PowerVu Plus) and/or by mail to authorized AFN television outlets outside the contiguous United States. The programs are for their non-commercial distribution/ presentation via television broadcast frequencies, encrypted, digitally compressed satellite transmission, and/or limited closed-circuit distribution systems.

4. Objectives. The objective of this requirement is to provide AFN television services with programming received from the distribution rights holder, Twentieth Century Fox International Television, Inc. (Twentieth Century Fox).

5. Scope. The scope of the work requires permission for AFN to broadcast each program or portions of programs that is limited to such rights as Twentieth Century Fox may have upon the date a request for permission to record and/or distribute such program is granted.

6. Specific Tasks.

6.1 Task 1 – Program Delivery & License Agreement

The Contractor shall provide AFN access, distribution, and technical/program support services (i.e., formats, promotional materials, associate director listen lines) only to those programs to which the Contractor has the distribution rights. Should AFN request that the Contractor provide feeds of programming to which the Contractor does not hold distribution rights, such as sports, awards shows and other programming for which third parties own distribution rights, and for which Twentieth Century Fox exclusively maintains all other rights related to the broadcast of such programming, AFN shall obtain from the underlying program rights holder such additional distribution rights, to include authorizations and clearances necessary to enable AFN to broadcast such programming. The Contractor shall make reasonable efforts to advise AFN of the underlying rights holders but failure to do so will not relieve AFN of its obligation to secure needed permission for distribution. It will be the responsibility of AFN to provide the Contractor with documented evidence of such distribution clearances and/or other associated rights when necessary.

AFN may only record, process and broadcast television programming distributed by the Contractor which has been authorized by the Contractor for AFN use.

AFN shall obtain all authorizations and clearances necessary to enable it to broadcast each program. Specifically, AFN will obtain all necessary union and guild clearances for its use of each program from the owners of music, literary rights and other properties included in the program. Twentieth Century Fox shall make reasonable efforts to advise AFN of the persons, firms, or corporations from whom AFN must obtain clearances pursuant hereto, but Twentieth Century Fox ’s failure to do so shall not relieve AFN of its obligation under the provisions of this paragraph.

Programs which Twentieth Century Fox is marketing in foreign countries will not be used by AFN in a manner which will interfere with Twentieth Century Fox’s commercial efforts.

At the request of the Contractor, AFN will promptly discontinue the use of any specified program or series of programs. Upon notice from the Contractor, AFN will delete any program the Contractor deems inappropriate, for whatever reason, to televise in any geographic region. When a program or series of programs is discontinued then the parties will negotiate replacement programming of comparable value as a substitute for the program(s) that was discontinued or a reduction in the price of the affected delivery order. Notice will be sent to the COR.

6.2 Task 2 - Delivery of Media.

The Contractor shall deliver all available media by the specified delivery date and then deliver remaining episodes on a weekly/monthly basis, until receipt of all available episodes. Materials for already completed seasons should be delivered in one shipment by the specified delivery date. Before shipping physical media and or delivery of FTP programming, Media Management shall be contacted to confirm format and delivery method specifications.

Contact the COR at 951-413-2296 or Alternate COR at 951-413-2574 or via email to dma.march.afrts.list.dpti-media- management@mail.mil.

The delivery mechanism for licensed programming ordered by AFN shall be decided by the mutual agreement of the parties consisting of one of the following mechanisms.

1) Digital Transfer from the licensor using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Currently this is the delivery mechanism and digital format preferred by AFN.

2) Direct decoder authorization downlink with the licensor’s domestic distribution network or third-party distribution feed (e.g., CBS, NBC, Fox).

3) Record from a third-party commercial satellite platform (e.g., DirecTV, over-the-air broadcast) subject to AFN also receiving prior approval from the third party. Approval may take the form of an email or other written means to document the approval.

4) Delivery at Twentieth Century Fox’s sole expense, physical media to include tapes, hard drives and/or DVDs in NTSC/ATSC formats. *

If a complete, broadcast quality recording is not made from a domestic distribution feed, AFN will notify Twentieth Century Fox within a reasonable time and Twentieth Century Fox shall deliver as soon as possible, but not later than five days after notification, the program on one of the video tape formats listed above. When requested, physical media provided by Twentieth Century Fox will be returned at Government expense within 120 days.

*In the future other media formats may prove to be mutually beneficial and may be employed by the consent of the parties.

Deliverable: Programming as specified on individual Delivery Orders.

7. Performance Standards.

Performance Standard Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) Method of Surveillance Subtask 6.2 – Media shall be broadcast quality; English version meeting NTSC technical standards including Closed Captioning and meets broadcast network television content standards.

Materials contain required information and are delivered on time at least 90% of the time.

Revisions that occur are minor and are resolved in a satisfactory manner.

Quality checked for any technical issues.

8. Place of Performance. The work will be performed at the AFN Broadcast Center, Riverside, CA. No travel is required to perform the tasks in the SOW.

9. Period of Performance. The period of performance is for a one-five-year ordering period.

10. Delivery Schedule.

SOW

Task#

Deliverable Title

Format Due Date Distribution/Copies Frequency and Remarks

6.2 Programs Contactor’s format Per delivery order Contact

dma.march.afrts.list.

dpti-media-management@mail.

mil to determine.

Per delivery order

*Standard Distribution: 1 copy of the transmittal letter without the deliverable to the KO; 1 copy of the transmittal letter with the deliverable to the Primary COR.

11. Security Requirements.

(a) Television programming made available to AFN by TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX will be cleared for transmission by AFN through standard broadcast, satellite, or closed-circuit distribution systems. To ensure the security of program material distributed by satellite transmission, The AFN-BC affiliates receive programs from AFN-BC via a fully encrypted satellite transmission (currently Cisco Systems/Scientific Atlanta’s PowerVu Plus).

(b) All recordings will remain in the custody and control of AFN and will be restricted to non-commercial use on AFN stations and outlets authorized by the Department of Defense, which includes U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships equipped with closed-circuit television facilities. The use of programming materials, in whole or part, for any other purpose is prohibited. Programming provided to AFN stations overseas via satellite from AFN may be recorded for delayed telecast only as authorized by AFN. The same security measures will apply to duplicate copies as to original videotape recordings. All copies will be erased as soon as local station operational requirements are met.

(c) AFN assures it shall protect the integrity of all news, news analysis, commentary programs and special reports. No change will be made in the editorial content of programming materials used. AFN retains the right to delete a program in its entirety when a segment or the entire program contains material that may be offensive to a host nation.

12. Government-Furnished Equipment (GFE)/Government-Furnished Information (GFI). N/A

13. Other Pertinent information or Special Considerations.

a. Identification of Possible Follow-on Work. N/A

b. Identification of Potential Conflicts of Interest (COI). N/A

c. Identification of Non-Disclosure Requirements. N/A

d. Packaging, Packing and Shipping Instructions. N/A

e. Inspection and Acceptance Criteria. N/A

f. Property Accountability. N/A

14. Section 508 Accessibility Standards. The following Section 508 Accessibility Standard(s) (Technical Standards and Functional Performance Criteria) are applicable (if box is checked) to this acquisition.

Technical Standards

1194.21 - Software Applications and Operating Systems

1194.22 - Web Based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications

1194.23 - Telecommunications Products

1194.24 - Video and Multimedia Products

1194.25 - Self-Contained, Closed Products

1194.26 - Desktop and Portable Computers

1194.41 - Information, Documentation and Support

The Technical Standards above facilitate the assurance that the maximum technical standards are provided to the Offerors. Functional Performance Criteria is the minimally acceptable standards to ensure Section 508 compliance.

This block is checked to ensure that the minimally acceptable electronic and information technology (E&IT) products are proposed.

Functional Performance Criteria

1194.31 - Functional Performance Criteria