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Sources Sought Announcement Notice Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Strategic Planning and Integration (SPI) Request for Information— Strategic Planning and Integration Support Services

Reference No. CEN050820191600

The Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) Acquisition Directorate (AD) is conducting market research to locate qualified, experienced and interested businesses to provide strategic planning and integration (SPI) support services for the WHS/FMD.

Introduction:

WHS/AD is seeking information on behalf of DSCA/SPI for potential sources to provide strategic planning and integration support services at the government owned facility.

This Sources Sought Notice 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. This notice neither constitutes a Request for Proposal (RFP), nor does it restrict Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) to the ultimate acquisition approach. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. No reimbursement will be made for any cost associated with providing information in response to this announcement. At this time no solicitation exists. Therefore, please do not request a copy of the solicitation. Responses in any form are not offers.

Background:

The Strategic Planning and (SPI) Division is responsible for aligning DSCA’s mission and activities with national strategic guidance, developing and disseminating Security Cooperation (SC) policies and procedures and is the Agency lead for managing security cooperation reform.

The Fiscal Year 2017 and 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), contain far-reaching SC reforms that provide a significant opportunity to restructure security cooperation throughout the Department of Defense and at DSCA. In aggregate, the statutes enhance the flexibility, transparency, and oversight of SC authorities and resources and improve alignment of security cooperation activities to defense strategy. These efforts create an opportunity to transform SC into a stronger strategic tool in support of our national security interests. The FY 17 NDAA consolidates management responsibilities under DSCA, requires development of a single SC budget, facilitates greater integration of SC planning and mandates the development of a workforce development program to professionalize the SC workforce. The FY18 NDAA further builds upon the FMS improvements DSCA has been working by mandating the establishment of FMS contracting milestones and standard timelines. Once fully implemented these changes have the potential to eliminate distortions, address coordination gaps, and avoid duplication of effort arising from narrowly-focused program management offices. The consolidation of oversight and administration of SC also provides leadership a more streamlined way of ensuring accountability.

DSCA also supports the National Security Presidential Memorandum regarding U.S.

Conventional Arms Transfer Policy signed in April 2018, that establishes the policy of the executive branch to facilitate ally and partner efforts, through United States sales and security cooperation efforts.

The DSCA Workforce Development Directorate (WDD) was established to develop and manage the DoD Security Cooperation Workforce Development Program (SCWDP) as mandated by 10 USC 384. The SCWDP is a mandatory DoD workforce development program to improve the effectiveness of DoD's Security Cooperation programs and activities by advancing the professionalism of the approximately 20,000 member DoD Security Cooperation workforce.

Specific Task Include:

The government is looking for a contractor that is able to deploy the following capabilities on Day 1 upon a potential contract award:

1.) The Contractor must have past experience and knowledge of the security cooperation enterprise, that may include strategy development, planning, execution or business operations.

The Contractor must be able to apply the prior security cooperation experience and knowledge to current security cooperation challenges to generate new materials (briefings, PowerPoint presentations, documents, metrics, information papers, talking points, audio visual material and graphics) and tailor those deliverables to provide compelling and informative progress reports to the National Security Council, Secretary of Defense, members of Congress, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense (Policy), and other senior interagency leaders to include General Officers, Flag Officers, Senior Executive Service members and political appointees.

The Contractor must have a large library of deliverable templates and presentations created by graphic designers readily available for customization and application to the client's needs.

2.) The Contractor must be able to apply a variety of different analytic and strategic methodologies, frameworks, models and tools to challenges facing the security cooperation enterprise to generate strategic initiatives, recommendations and alternative approaches to evaluate security cooperation challenges, the client's mission needs, goals and requirements.

Contractor provided recommendations will be used to inform the creation of new strategies and objectives designed to meet the Agency's short, mid, and long-term planning goals to advance the organization's mission and reform the security cooperation enterprise. The Contractor must be able to review, analyze and distill key points from relevant strategic documents, up to the Secret level, to identify linkages and opportunities to nest agency strategic objectives and tasks under other broader strategic guidance documents.

3.) The Contractor must be able to manage the day to day progress of strategic initiatives to report progress and impact to agency leadership. The Contractor will propose methodologies and metrics to measure impact and effectiveness, track and monitor progress and performance, to include milestone planning, performance analysis, performance evaluation and reporting. As the agency designs new program initiatives the contractor will propose performance metrics and performance indicators to integrate into the project plan to assess, track and monitor progress and verify alignment with strategic objectives. The contractor will also create training aids, standard operating procedures and outreach campaigns to ensure adoption and consistency across the security cooperation enterprise.

4.) The Contractor shall provide access to a wide range of data analysis and analytics tools (predictive and prescriptive), data collection methods and procedures, assessments, data research, and reporting methods to identify future and expected business trends in the air, space and defense industry. The contractor shall also generate custom data products, data tracking procedures and visualizations to present these findings. The Contractor must be able to utilize a combination of open source data and client provided data to generate the analysis and recommendations. Client provided data and any custom generated solutions or products will remain under the ownership and control of the client at the conclusion of the contract. In the Contractor response please list any software or tools that the Contractor would use to provide the desired functionality to the client.

Security Clearance: The business must have an active Secret Facility Clearance from the Defense Security Service (DSS).

Place of Performance: The services provided under this contract will be performed at the Government owned facility in the National Capital Region (NCR) and telework as determined by the Contracting Officer/Contracting Officer Representative in order to meet the program requirements described in the Performance Work Statement.

NAICS: The anticipated North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541611; Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services.

Submission Details:

Interested businesses having the capabilities necessary to provide the specified services may submit capability statements (no more than five pages, cover page not included in page limit) demonstrating their ability to perform the specific tasks listed to the Contract Specialist, Nicole Wright, via email: nicole.c.wright2.civ@mail.mil and mailbox: whs.ncr.ad.mbx.dsca-group@mail.mil Subject Line: Sources Sought Response DSCA/SPI Strategic Planning and Integration Support Services, CEN050820191600.

Respondents may email questions regarding this notice by: 1:00 pm, ET May 29, 2019.

Capability Statements must be submitted no later than: 1:00 pm, ET June 10, 2019, Capability statements will not be returned. No telephone requests will be honored.

Please provide the following information;

1) A brief three to five page synopsis of similar work performed. Submissions shall be in MS word or PDF format;

2) How your company can support each of the specific tasks;

3) Company Name & Address;

mailto:nicole.c.wright2.civ@mail.mil mailto:whs.ncr.ad.mbx.dsca-group@mail.mil mailto:whs.ncr.ad.mbx.dsca-group@mail.mil

4) Company Web Page;

5) Company Primary Point of Contact Name, Business Title, Email & Telephone Number;

6) NAICS codes associated with the company;

7) Recommended/suggested NAICS codes for this effort, Additional Information on NAICS codes can be found at www.sba.gov;

8) Business Classification Status under NAICS Code 541219

9) DUNS and CAGE Code Number;

10) Identify contracts your company has been awarded under NAICS: 541219, at a minimum, please include – Contract Number, Contract Vehicles, Contract Award Amount, and Period of Performance;

11) Number of contracts currently held with the Government;

12) References (including contact information; Point of Contact name, email address and phone number) of individuals who can verify the demonstrated capabilities identified in the responses;

13) Contract vehicles that would be available to the Government for the procurement of these services to include General Service Administration (GSA) Schedules, Federal Supply Schedules (FSS), or any other Government Agency contract vehicle. (This information is for market research only and does not preclude your company from responding to this notice.);

14) Identify if your company has a Secret Facility Clearance from the Defense Security Service (DSS).

As applicable, provide any additional information on services that the company provides along with a brief description of the approach the company would take in providing the services contemplated in this Sources Sought.

Proprietary information and trade secrets shall NOT be submitted as part of a response.

Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is submitted, as it is clearly stated this type of information shall NOT be submitted.