Attachment 0002 Sources Sought ICIDS-VI.pdf

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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

Market Research for Product Manager (PM) Force Protection Systems (FPS)

Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System-VI (ICIDS-VI)

INTRODUCTION: The Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground- Belvoir

Division (ACC-APG Belvoir), on behalf of PdM FPS is issuing a Request for Information (RFI), in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.201(e). The purpose of this RFI is to solicit industry feedback of Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) technology that can provide physical security capabilities for Army Installations, both inside and outside of the Continental

United States.

This is not a request for proposal, request for quotation, or an invitation for bid, nor does its issue obligate or restrict the Government to any acquisition approach. This RFI does not obligate the

Government to issue a solicitation. This RFI is being conducted solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Neither unsolicited proposal(s) nor any other offers will be considered in response to this request or accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Contractors are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Acknowledgement of receipt of submitted items will not be made nor will respondents be notified of the outcome of the information received.

ANTICIPATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 36 Months

CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS:

U.S. Army Contracting Command (ACC) – Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) Belvoir Division

10205 Burbeck Road, Bldg. 362

Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-5863

RESPONSE DUE DATE: The response date for this market research is 1200 EST on 12 June

2025. No phone calls will be accepted, only e-mail inquiries will be entertained. All responses to this RFI shall be submitted via e-mail to Rosetta Wisdom-Russell, Contracting Officer, at rosetta.wisdom-russell.civ@army.mil, and to Brian Petchel, Contract Specialist, at brian.k.petchel.civ@army.mil.

DISCLAIMER: THIS SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL

PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A

COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT

OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A

CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE

TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY

INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

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CONFIDENTIALITY: No classified, confidential, or sensitive information, or proprietary information shall be included in your response. Interested parties are responsible for appropriately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response.

QUESTIONS TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: All questions pertaining to this announcement are due no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after release of the RFI. Telephone requests will not be accepted. Questions regarding this RFI should be submitted via e-mail to Rosetta

Wisdom-Russell, Contracting Officer, at rosetta.wisdom-russell.civ@army.mil and to Brian

Petchel, Contract Specialist, at brian.k.petchel.civ@army.mil, no later than 1200 EST on 28 May

2025. Questions/answers will be non-attribution and be published on the Army Single Face to

Industry (ASFI) website at https://sam.gov/.

If the Government has additional questions after reviewing your response, you may be contacted and asked to provide additional information. If an industry outreach event is anticipated in the future, details will be published on the Army Single Face to Industry (ASFI) website at https://sam.gov/.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: ACC-APG Belvoir Division conducts Market Research on behalf of PdM FPS in accordance with FAR Part 10. PdM FPS is looking for companies to provide

Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) technology that can provide physical security capabilities for

Army Installations, both inside and outside of the Continental United States. Assessments will be based on existing and/or emerging technologies that have a demonstrated ability to monitor the physical security of multiple and geographically separate and distant installations from a central location. For the purposes of this RFI, Physical Security includes but is not limited to intrusion detection, entry control and closed-circuit television monitoring of protected areas within an

Army Installation. Central monitoring operates under the concept of a regional hub and executes command and control over the physical security systems of multiple Installations, either automatically or under operator control. Installations will have between 20 to 1,000 protected areas or zones. Depending on the size of the installation, a regional hub shall monitor between

10 to 20 Installations. Companies must be capable of adapting to working with different

OCONUS rules and regulations that apply in Europe and the Pacific when it comes to fielding, including networking.

A diagrammatic representation is provided in Annex A of this RFI.

Specific details on technologies of interest are provided below and shall be thoroughly reviewed before ensuring your submittal meets the specific requirements.

BACKGROUND: There are currently 76 Army Installations physically protected by the

Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System (ICIDS) using different iterations of Data

Acquisition (DAQ) and non-DAQ technologies and are autonomously monitored at each

Installation. There are currently four iterations of the ICIDS across the Army and are age-based.

Modernization of each Army Installation’s ICIDS is based on a 10-year cycle. This effort will include the physical security for Arms, Ammunition, & Explosives (AA&E), chemicals, and

High Value Equipment.

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The immediate goal is to network groupings of Army Installations under a regional hub using

DAQ compatible technologies while modernizing ICIDS systems for Army Installations scheduled for upgrades without interruption of physical security operations within the

Installations.

The goal is to have all Army Installations, inside the Continental United States (CONUS) and

Overseas, centrally monitored and sustained using 5 regional hubs.

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION: The ICIDS is used by security and law enforcement agencies at

Army Installations worldwide, providing Commanders the means to detect and assess as necessary, the unauthorized intrusion or attempted intrusions of protected areas.

The ICIDS consists of a family of reliable, standardized, state-of-the-art-commercial-technology to enhance the physical security of the site and its sensitive assets by providing early warning of compromise and/or attempted compromise of protected assets.

The ICIDS is an integrated system that includes the Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Closed

Circuit Television (CCTV), Entry Control Equipment (ECE), communications links, and alarm reporting systems for monitor, control, and display of alarm and system information. It is configured to provide one or more layers of protection around an asset. Each layer is made up of a series of contiguous detection zones, designed to isolate the asset, and control ingress and egress of authorized personnel and materials.

The ICIDS is modular and scalable. Tailored combinations of ICIDS components are designed to meet site-specific security requirements. Components are selected, configured, and installed in varying quantities, depending on the level of protection required; the physical construction;

the size, number, and location of critical or vulnerable assets or areas requiring protection; and other characteristics of the site. In some cases, viable existing equipment is used with ICIDS.

The ICIDS is type accredited under the Risk Management Framework Process as a Closed

Restricted Network.

BASELINE TECHNOLOGY: Technologies shall be able to integrate with existing ICIDS and maintain a Closed Restricted Network Architecture across the US Army Physical Security

Enterprise.

A. Central Monitoring – ICIDS-VI system must have the capability to be centrally monitored through a NETCOM IS Secure Enclave (network system).

B. Integration - Compatibility will be required with DAQ ICIDS technologies currently operating within the Army Physical Security Enterprise.

RESPONSE SUBMITTAL INSTRUCTIONS: Participation in response to this RFI will not preclude any vendor from responding to future acquisitions, either individually or as part of a team. For this RFI, the Government seeks information regarding your commercial capabilities and experience related to the delivery of capabilities as described in the Program Objective section of this RFI. Sources able to address the above request are invited to submit a White

Paper, including information describing its approach. Please limit the White Paper submission to a maximum of 10 pages (including a cover sheet) and provide the following information:

1. Please provide the following Point of Contact information:

- Contact and company information

- Name

- Title

- Company name

- Date of incorporation

- Number of years in business

- Number of employees

- Location

- Mailing address

- Phone number

- Website address

- Email address

- Note that RFI respondents shall designate a single point of contact for receipt of all information pursuant to this RFI

2. Please identify the company's business size standard based on the primary North American

Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 334290. For more information, refer to http://www.sba.gov/content/tablesmall-business-size-standards:

- Large Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

3. Please provide a brief overview of the company history, limited to three (3) paragraphs.

4. If the company is considered a SB as identified above, then note if the interest is as the prime contractor? If so, continue to question #5-10, all others skip to Question #11.

5. Under the current SB recertification regulations, is it anticipated that the company will remain a small business, under the primary stated NAICS code 334290?

6. If the company is a SB and the intent is to become a prime contractor under this effort, please inform how the company will meet the limitations on subcontracting Clause 52.219-14. Also, does the company possess the capabilities to satisfy the entire range of these requirements? If not, please list which requirements the company can satisfy. Please provide details of which aspects the company is capable of satisfying, e.g., warehouse support, inventory management, transportation.

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7. If the company is a small business, can it perform without payment for 90 days?

8. If the company is a small business, does it have experience as a prime contractor administering Contracts? If yes, please provide as much of the following information as possible; Contract number(s); Dollar value; and similarity of scope and effort to the scope and effort of the ICIDS.

9. If the company is a Small Business, or any of the SB subcategories above, is the company interested in a prime contract? If so, does your company possess the capabilities to provide the entire range of these requirements? If not, please list which requirements the company can provide?

10. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other business arrangements to satisfy these requirements. Offerors are encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size based upon the NAICS code of the work that the team member will be doing.

11. Has the company performed this type of, or similar type effort (to include size and complexity) in the past? If so, provide Contract Number, Point of Contact (POC), e-mail address, phone number, and a brief description of the direct support of the effort?

12. Please identify the company's past and current customers to which it provided these types of, or similar capabilities, including a customer/company name and point of contact, phone number and address/e-mail where they can be contacted. (please provide the above information for up to 5 efforts)

13. Please identify the company’s experience with OCONUS fielding and installation, specifically in Europe and the Pacific regions.

14. Provide a technical approach narrative describing the methods in which the contractor will meet or exceed the program objectives and requests described above.

15. Provide a timeline of activities in your response by 12 June 2025 to complete activities in

Statement of Work paragraphs 3.1 and 3.3 NLT 31 JUL 2025.

16. Provide timeline of activities in your response by 12 June 2025 to complete Performance

Verification Testing-1 (PVT-1) NLT 30 SEP 2025 and PVT-2 NLT 31 December 2025 as per Statement of Work paragraphs 3.16.1, 3.16.2, and 3.16.3.

17. Provide a timeline of activities in your response by 12 June 2025 to have personnel trained and deployed CONUS and OCONUS NLT 30 September 2025 to perform activities in

Statement of Work paragraphs 3.1, 3.3, 3.16.1, 3.16.2, and 3.16.3.

The Government requests that interested sources submit an electronic response of not more than ten (10) pages, 8.5" x 11" paper, 12-point, Times New Roman font, with a minimum of one (1) inch margins all around.

Responses to Small Business Questions 6 thru 10 are in addition to the above stated ten (10) page limitation. Responses should include the company name, Commercial and Government

Entity Code (CAGE) code, point of contact, and address.

Supporting documentation (such as marketing brochures, fliers, published presentations or papers and other materials that summarize the technology and more about your company) is acceptable (up to two (2) pages), and may be referenced by reviewers only in support of claims identified in the White Paper, and only where specifically referenced in the White Paper.

Any company proprietary information, performance capabilities and/or future modification plans should be clearly identified and MUST be marked accordingly and will be protected by the

Government.

Responses to the RFI will not be returned by the Government.

Responses to the RFI may be used to develop Government Acquisition Strategy documentation.

All information marked as proprietary information will be safeguarded to prevent disclosures to non-Government personnel and entities. Your interest in this response is appreciated.

All interested companies or organizations are encouraged to respond to the RFI by providing the requested information by 1200 EST on 12 June 2025.

Respondents are requested to submit one (1) electronic copy of the responses to Rosetta

Wisdom-Russell, Contracting Officer, at rosetta.wisdom-russell.civ@army.mil, and to Brian

Petchel, Contract Specialist, at brian.k.petchel.civ@army.mil.

Files should be sent in a Microsoft Word compatible file or a PDF file. Files greater than 20MB cannot be transmitted through the network firewall.

Disclaimer: THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT INTEND TO AWARD A CONTRACT

ON THE BASIS OF THIS RFI OR REIMBURSE ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH

THE PREPARATION OF RESPONSES.

This announcement is issued solely for information and planning purposes and does not constitute a solicitation. Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly.

Responses will not be returned nor will the Government confirm receipt. Whatever information is provided will be used to assess tradeoffs and alternatives available for determining how to proceed in the acquisition process. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. All Government and

Contractor personnel reviewing responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as described in 41 USC §2101-2107. The Government shall not be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any proprietary information not properly identified.

Proprietary information will be safeguarded in accordance with the applicable Government regulations.

ANNEX A

Regional Hub

ICIDS SYSTEM at Installation Level

ICIDS SYSTEM at Multiple

Installations Centrally Monitored at

Regional Hub