Draft Performance Work Statement (TAC-O).pdf

SUBMARINE TACTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY TRAINING

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS)

FOR

SUBMARINE TACTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY TRAINING

PART 1

GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 General: This is a non-personnel services contract to provide Submarine Tactical Operations Training. The Government shall not exercise any supervision or control over the contract service providers performing the services herein

1.2 Background

1.2.1 The Naval Oceanographic Office provides analyst support to Naval Fleet Forces. Staff analysts require precise training from subject matter experts in submarine operations and shore support to enhance their abilities to provide accurate coordination, planning and operational support to Fleet partners.

1.3 Description of Requirement

The contractor shall provide tailored training services with a curriculum derived from submarine tactical operations in support to CNMOC’s Community of Interest. The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, tools, materials, supervision, other items, necessary to perform the services.

1.3.1 Course topics include, at minimum:

1.3.1.1 Support to the CNMOC Community of Interest – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of general tactical and operational support to CNMOC, relevant to coordinating with external commands to ensure that operationally required information and analysis instruction is delivered to partner staffs to aid in improvement of operational support.

1.3.1.2 Basic Sonar Operations – Contract personnel will provide an in-depth understanding of operations of a SONAR watch-section onboard a submarine.

1.3.1.3 Contact Generated Sources – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of acoustic sources radiated from contacts encountered by Naval Units. The training will also include practical application exercises to demonstrate a classification process.

1.3.1.4 Tactical Use of the Ocean Environment – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of all factors of the ocean environment encountered by US Naval Units. Analysts will receive instruction on the impact of the ocean to acoustic sensors and the actions needed to plan for these variables. The training will also provide practical application exercises to demonstrate the planning process and altering the plan based on shifts in the acoustic environment using shore-based tactical decision aids.

1.3.1.5 Passive ASW Operations – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations conducted by Naval Units.

1.3.1.6 Active and ASUW Operations/Predictions – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of medium frequency active acoustic pulses and how they are incorporated into Anti-Surface Warfare Operations conducted by Naval Units. Contract personnel will provide instruction on how to plan operations against units transmitting various pulses in numerous environments. The training will also provide practical application exercises to demonstrate a classification process along with planning of ASUW operations.

1.3.1.7 ASW Weapons – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of weapons used by Naval Units in ASW operations. This will include all acoustics detectable by underwater sensors. The training will also provide practical application exercises to demonstrate a classification process of these weapons.

1.3.1.8 Combat Operations – Contract personnel will provide an understanding of all aspects of ASUW and ASW combat operations conducted by Naval Units as well as an understanding of all variables involved in combat. The training will also provide practical application exercises to demonstrate the decision process associated with combat operations.

1.3.1.9 Course Curriculum Development – Contractor personnel shall develop course curriculum for the above listed topics and shall tailor course content for NAVOCEANO’s mission objectives.

1.4 Period of Performance, Place of Performance and Hours of Operation

1.4.1 The ordering period will consist of a five-year ordering period.

NAVOCEANO anticipates the need to train up to fifty students during the ordering period at various dates specified between the contractor and NAVOCEANO for various iterations of the 8 course topics listed in 1.3.1.

1.4.2 Each task Order will provide the specific period of performance.

1.4.3 The contractor shall perform services at NAVOCEANO.

1.4.4 Recognized Holidays/Government Closure: Federal law (5 U.S.C. 6103) establishes the public holidays for

Federal employees. Any other day designated by federal statute, executive order, presidential proclamation and/or local determinations relating to adverse weather conditions, national emergencies, administrative closings, or similar Government directed facility closings may require office closure. During such periods of closure, contractor employees will not be allowed to work, nor will the contractor be compensated, however, offsite work is allowed, with Contracting Officer's (KO) approval, on a case-by-case basis when mutually agreed upon by the Government and the contractor.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-holidays/

1.4.5 Hours of Operation

The contractor is responsible for performing support services during an 8-hour workday between the hours of 0700 and 1630, Monday through Friday, or during core business hours, except as stated in 1.4.4. The contractor must at all times maintain an adequate workforce for the uninterrupted performance of all tasks defined within this performance work statement when the Government facility is not closed for the aforementioned reasons. The stability and continuity of the workforce are essential.

1.5 Post Award Conference/Periodic Progress Meetings

1.5.1 The Contractor shall attend, in person or virtually, any post award conference convened by the contracting activity. The contracting officer and the Contracting Officers Representative (COR) may meet periodically with the contractor to review the contractor's performance. At these meetings, the contracting officer will apprise the contractor of how the Government views the contractor's performance and the contractor will apprise the Government of problems experiencing, if any. The Government or the contractor, as applicable, shall take appropriate action to resolve outstanding issues. These meetings shall be at no additional cost to the Government.

1.6 Contract Manager: The contractor shall provide a contract manager who shall be responsible for the performance of the work and act as a single point of contact for the Government. The contractor shall designate this person and an alternate in writing to the contracting officer. The contract manager or alternate shall have full authority to act for the contractor on all contract matters relating to daily operation of this contract.

1.7 Identification of Contractor Employees: All contract personnel are required to identify themselves as such while attending meetings, answering Government telephones, answering emails and if working in other situations where their contractor status is not obvious to third parties. Identification of contractor status is required to avoid creating an impression in the minds of members of the public or other Government personnel that they are Government officials.

They must also mark all documents or reports produced by contractors as contractor products or that contractor participation is appropriately disclosed. All contractor personnel shall obtain and wear NAVOCEANO visitor badges in the performance of this service.

PART 2

DEFINITIONS & ACRONYMS

2.1. CONTRACTOR. A supplier or vendor awarded a contract to provide specific supplies or service to the Government. The term used in this contract refers to the Prime Contractor.

2.2 CONTRACTING OFFICER. A person with authority to enter into, administer, and or terminate contracts, and make related determinations and findings on behalf of the Government. Note: The only individual who can legally bind the Government.

2.3 CONTRACTING OFFICER'S REPRESENTATIVE (COR). An employee of the U.S.Government designated and authorized in writing by the contracting officer to perform specific technical or administrative functions. Such appointment shall be in writing and shall state the scope of authority and limitations. This individual has authority to provide technical direction to the Contractor if that direction is within the scope of the contract, does not constitute a change, and has no funding implications. This individual does NOT have authority to change the terms and conditions of the contract.

2.4 DEFECTIVE SERVICE. A service output that does not meet the standard of performance associated with the Performance Work Statement.

2.5 QUALITY ASSURANCE. The Government procedures to verify the services performed by the Contractor are within acceptable standards.

2.6 QUALITY CONTROL. All necessary measures taken by the Contractor to assure that the quality of an end product or service shall meet contract requirements.

PART 3

SPECIFIC TASKS

3.1 N/A

PART 4

GOVERNMENT FURNISHED PROPERTY / EQUIPMENT / RESOURCES

4.1 General: Except for those items specifically stated in paragraph 4.2 and 4.3, the contractor shall furnish everything required to perform this PWS.

4.2 Software: Standard NAVOCEANO NMCI/Nautilus/OCEANS Software Provided with approval via SAAR from N6

4.3 Facilities: The Government will furnish the necessary workspace for the contractor staff to provide the support outlined in this PWS to include desk space, telephones, computers and other items necessary to maintain an office environment.

4.3.1 The contractor shall return to NAVOCEANO all materials furnished to the contractor and any materials purchased with the Government funds in support of this effort as directed, or upon completion of this project.

4.3.2 The contractor shall only use the data and software provided to the contractor under the terms of fulfilling their contractual obligations. The contractor shall transition all data and software back to NAVOCEANO upon project completion or contract performance period Upon delivery, the contractor shall return to NAVO and remove from contractor holdings all original and derived data and products.

4.4 Utilities. All utilities in the facility will be available for the contractor’s use in performance of duties outlined in this PWS. The Contractor shall instruct employees in utilities conservation practices. The contractor shall be responsible for operating under conditions that preclude the waste of utilities.

4.5 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and System Access

4.5.1 NAVOCEANO will provide system access within 30 business days of the contractor completing all required security training, security application paperwork, and system access requests.

4.5.2 NAVOCEANO will grant access to the data holdings necessary for the completion of this effort upon receipt of required scientific computer accounts.

4.5.3 NAVOCEANO personnel will provide tasking familiarization. Familiarization of new contractor employees shall consist of SOP review and software orientation. The duration of this familiarization shall be at the discretion of NAVOCEANO and shall not exceed two business days

PART 5

SECURITY REQUIREMENTS / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) SYSTEMS ACCESS

5.1 Contract personnel will work with Confidential Unclassified Information (CUI) and Classified Information. Contract personnel are beholden to all DOD guidance and policy for obtaining approved system and site access prior to conducting training courses.

PART 6

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS SUMMARY AND QUALITY CONTROL

6.1 Performance Monitoring

6.1.1 This PWS not only discusses the work to be performed but also contains performance standards and acceptable performance levels (APL). Performance standards are "tools" the Government uses to measure level of performance. A standard is an optimum performance level against which actual performance is measured or evaluated. For example, in the statement "complete a service call in 24 hours" the standard is 24 hours. The number of days taken to finish this task is the performance indicator, which determines if the work performed was below, met, or exceeded the standard. Developing accurate performance standards is crucial to ensuring that the actual performance received, regardless of the service provider, meets the requirements of the Statement of Work. This PWS includes performance standards for each of the Functional Areas of the PWS. The performance standards provided with this PWS seek to state the characteristics of properly completed outputs.

Each performance standard contains standards for both quality and timeliness.

6.1.2 The COR will inspect for compliance with Contract terms and conditions throughout the Contract period. The Government will monitor the Contractor's performance by performing surveillance using the PRS.

The PRS is used primarily to determine if the Contractor is performing all required outputs. The PRS also indicates for contractors the importance of each required service.

6.1.3 DFARS 222.17 mandates including surveillance for ensuring compliance with Combatting Trafficking in Persons (CTIP). The COR will monitor the contractor’s performance regarding trafficking in persons through the checklist for auditing compliance with CTIP policy found at DFARS PGI 222.17. Such non-compliance with FAR clause 52.222-50, Combating Trafficking in Persons, will be brought to the immediate attention of the contracting officer. See the DoD CTIP website (https://ctip.defense.gov) for further information

6.2 Quality Control/Assurance

6.2.1 The Government shall rely on the contractors’ existing quality assurance systems for the commercial item being acquired as per customary industry practices. The quality control plan shall ensure configuration, maintenance and repair services are performed in accordance with manufacturer’s recommendations and generally accepted commercial practices. The plan shall identify procedures to identify and prevent defective services from recurring.

6.2.2 The contractor shall provide a copy of their quality control program to the Government within 30 days of award.

6.3 Incentives/Disincentives for Meeting or Not Meeting the Acceptable Quality Level:

6.3.1 Incentives

6.3.1.1 Satisfactory or above past performance ratings.

6.3.2 Disincentives

6.3.2.1 Unsatisfactory or below past performance ratings

6.3.2.2 Negotiated Consideration for deficiencies or delays

6.4 Performance Requirements Summary Table:

Desired Outcomes:

PWS Section: Required Service:

Performance Standard Measurement:

Monitoring Method:

Incentives/Disincentives for Meeting or Not Meeting the Acceptable Quality Level:

Prepare and submit reports

Prepare monthly reports of deliverables provided IAW Parts 3 and 7 of the PWS

98% (2% error) for every report completed

Quality/Timeliness 100% Inspection

(a) Satisfactory or above ratings on past performance

(b) Any contractor deficiency in deliverable documentation must provide negotiated consideration for deficiency or delay

PART 7

DELIVERABLES SCHEDULE

7.1 Final schedule of tasks and time to delivery (in business days) shall be mutually agreed upon with NAVOCEANO and the vendor as specific courses are requested.

PART 8

APPLICABLE PUBLICATIONS

8.1 Not Applicable

PART 9

LIST OF ATTACHMENTS

9.1 Not Applicable