Calling Notice and Requested Information.pdf

Acquisition Office

NCIA/ACQ/2026/07896

Annex B – Calling Notice for Pre-competitive Industry Engagement:

BMD TBM Workshop at NATO Edge

A. Introduction

1. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) is conducting pre-competitive market engagement as market research to gather input on potential solutions to support the upcoming acquisition for a ballistic missile defence capability to provide tactical level functions for surveillance, situational awareness, tasking and engagement operations across static and deployable NATO entities. To that end, we are holding a dedicated workshop at NATO Edge to solicit feedback from capable and interested industry partners.

2. This Pre-competitive Industry Engagement is for planning purposes only and is not a request for bids. It is part of NCIA’s effort to engage early to inform and ensure it has a clear understanding of the marketplace, available capabilities, and potential acquisition strategies.

3. We value your insight and invite you to review and comment on our draft high level problem statement (Appendix A) with a view in providing recommendations for improving performance outcomes, competition, and efficiency; and identifying any risks or concerns that should be considered during planning.

4. Feedback can be provided in writing in accordance with submission instructions and/or by attending the dedicated industry engagement – BMD TBM Workshop at NATO Edge, taking place on 17-19 November in Izmir (Türkiye), where NCIA will respond to clarifying questions and invite comments from participants.

5. Submission instructions and additional details can be found in the enclosure to this Calling Notice.

6. Only companies from a NATO member country can participate in or respond to this Calling Notice. (https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/nato_countries.htm) or attend a dedicated workshop.

7. Should you have any questions or need clarification, please contact Ms Elif Bailey at elif.bailey@ncia.nato.int

8. We thank you in advance for your time and input, and we look forward to engaging with you as we shape this potential acquisition.

B. Submission Instructions

1. Interested parties are invited to respond in accordance with the instructions below or provide feedback during Industry Engagement:

a. Submit responses via the email address in section C no later than 12:00 hours Central European Time (CET) on 03 December 2026.

b. Responses should be submitted in PDF or Word format and must not exceed 15 pages, including:

i. Comments on Appendix A and responses to Appendix B https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/nato_countries.htm mailto:elif.bailey@ncia.nato.int excluding:

i. Cover page

ii. Company brochures or product literature (if included)

iii. Attachments such as past performance references

c. Use the following subject line for submission

i. “Response to NPO-CO-423316-RTBMD – [Company Name]”

d. All responses should address the items listed in Appendix B – Requested Information.

e. Respondents are also encouraged to review and comment on the draft problem statement in Appendix A.

C. Point of Contact

1. Ms. Elif Bailey, Senior Contracting Officer

2. CO-423316-RTBMD@ncia.nato.int

D. Disclaimer

1. This Pre-competitive Industry Engagement is for planning and informational purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or obligation on the part of the NCIA.

The NCIA does not intend to award a contract based on responses to this engagement.

Respondents are solely responsible for all costs incurred in responding to this engagement. The NCIA will consider and analyse all information received from this engagement and may use these findings to develop a future solicitation. The NCIA will consider all responses as confidential commercial information and will protect it as such.

2. NCIA reserves the right, at any time, to cancel this informal market survey, partially or in its entirety. No legal liability on the part of NCIA for payment of any sort shall arise and in no event will a cause of action lie with any prospective participant for the recovery of any costs incurred in connection with the preparation of documentation or participation in response hereto. All effort initiated or undertaken by prospective informal market survey participants shall be done considering and accepting this fact.

E. Use of Information Provided through Responses

1. Confidentiality of Responses

The NCIA may incorporate industry comments and responses, in part or in whole, into a future release of a solicitation. Should respondents include proprietary data in their responses that they do not wish to be disclosed to the public for any purpose, or used by NCIA (except for internal evaluation purposes), they must:

a. Mark the title page with the following legend:

This document includes data that shall not be disclosed outside NATO and shall not be duplicated, used, or disclosed – in whole or in part – for any purpose other than for NCIA internal evaluation purposes, unless otherwise expressly authorised by [insert company name]. This restriction does not limit the NCIA’s right to use information contained in this data without restriction if it is obtained from another source. The data subject to this restriction are contained in sheets [insert numbers or other identification of sheets]

b. Mark each sheet of data it wishes to restrict with the following legend:

Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the title page of this document.

Appendix A – High-level problem statement

Current products supporting the BMD capability at the tactical level do not provide complete coverage of the functionality required to realize NATO’s BMD target architecture. BMD TBM will deliver the full coverage of tactical level functions for the NATO BMD Target Architecture.

This target architecture will enable BMD TBM to federate with NATO and National IAMD (Integrated Air and Missile Defense) systems through the eAirC2 data layer while being scalable and extendable to address future IAMD requirements.

A description of the services required are listed below:

Service Group Service Service Short Description

Historical Events Service Generate historical firing events (shotlines)

BMD Trajectory Service Provides trajectory calculation of BMD threats and interceptors.

BMD Assessment Services BMD Post Analysis Service Provide post analysis tools to record, replay and assess BMD execution.

BMD Resource Monitoring Service Provide services for monitoring and analysis of BMD weapon and sensor resource status, location, and inventory.

BMD Threat Evaluation Service Provide services for threat assessment and evaluation during BMD execution.

BMD Execution Services

BMD Surveillance Service Provide services for processing of BMD surveillance data from tactical data links, sensors and SEW+.

BMD Engagement Service Provide services for engagement monitoring, engagement alerts, and kill assessment.

BMD Tactical Data Link Processor Services Provides services to receive and transmit TDL messages from/to Link 16 in accordance with STANAG 5516.

Service Group Service Service Short Description

AOD Processing Service Provides services to receive and process AOD.

Defence Design Processing Service Provides services to receive and process BMD Defence Design from external systems for BMD Execution.

OPTASK LINK Service Provides services to display and process OPTASK LINK message.

Intelligence Processing Service Provides services to receive and process intelligence information (COA, intelligence report) from external systems for BMD Execution.

Alert Management Service Provides standards based alert management services such as standard alerts data model, and alert delivery mechanisms.

Backup and Restore Service Provides back-up and restore services required for service continuity.

Chat Service Provide chat service to share operational and situational awareness information.

Identity Management Service Provide services to manage and control access to resources.

Logging Service Provide services for capturing, filtering and writing information about calls between services.

Training and Exercise Service Provides services for training and exercise execution.

Whiteboard Service Provides services for shares, images or files and lets multiple participants work and annotate on these images or files concurrently.

Provide a suite of capabilities needed to ensure that platform services are up and running, accessible and available to users, protected and secure, and that they are operating and performing within agreed upon parameters.

Workstation video record and replay Service Provides video record and replay functions for all workstations

Common Services

BMD Tactical HMI Service Provide services that enable the operators to interact with the services.

Reporting and Document Export Service Provides services for shares, images or files and lets multiple participants work and annotate on these images or files concurrently.

Security Service Provide the necessary means to implement and enforce CIS Security measures such as data protection, boundary and network protection.

System Management and Control Service

BMD Planning and Tasking Integration Services

BMD Tasking Service Provides services to extract, develop and distribute tasking information from a defence design.

PPR Processing Service Provides services to receive and process PPRs from external systems for BMD Execution.

ORBAT Processing Service Provides services to receive and process own and OPFOR ORBAT from external systems for BMD Execution.

Service Group Service Service Short Description

SEW+ Interface Service Provide services to receive surveillance data from SEW+ and monitor SEW+ status.

Provides services to monitor and control BMD-capable organic sensors and process target reports from BMD-capable organic sensors.

JREAP-C Interface Service Provide services to receive and transmit Link 16 tactical data over JREAP-C protocol.

MTF Interface Service Provide services to receive and transmit ADatP-3 formatted messages.

Interface Services

Interface Adaptation Service Provide services to interface with external services.

BMD Sensor Interface Service

Appendix B – Requested Information

Respondents are encouraged to provide the following information in their response:

a. Company Information

i. Legal Business Name

ii. Address

iii. Website

iv. Primary Point of Contact

v. Email address

b. Technical Capability

i. Summary of relevant capabilities and past performance

c. Feedback and Recommendations

i. Responses to the following questions:

1. What is the product maturity? Required solution must have high functional coverage and extensibility so that an early operational capability can be delivered early.

2. What is the adaptability of the product? Required solution must have the ability for rapid capability evolution to adapt to future and emerging operational requirements.

3. Validate the project timelines are realistic.

4. What does Industry foresee as infrastructure requirements?

5. How do you define cloud-readiness and how do you rate the cloud readiness of your product?

6. How are you going to prioritise NATO requirements within their product roadmaps?

ii. Innovations or alternatives

iii. Comments on the draft Problem Statement

d. Questions or Concerns

i. Risks, concerns, or barriers

ii. Suggestions for risk mitigation or enhancing competition