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Air Force Space Command Guardians of the High Frontier I n t e g r i t y - S e r v i c e - E x c e l l e n c e

AIR FORCE SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (FENCE)

Industry Days

Rusty Hatfield, Acq Program Manager Bret Duryee, Quality Assurance Specialist Carlo Mosca, Contracting Officer

27 Mar 08

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

FENCE

Industry Day Agenda

Government Introductions Purpose of Industry Days Requirements Mission Briefing Future Requirements Risk Assessment New Contract Information Contract Periods of Performance

NAICS

Wide Area Workflow Teaming Arrangements

Industry Day Agenda (cont.)

Source Selection Government Furnished Property Government Furnished Information FENCE Projected Milestones Questions and Answers One-on-One Discussions 27 – 28 Mar

Government Team Introductions Rusty Hatfield – Acquisition Program Manager Carlo Mosca - Contracting Officer Renata Ott - Contracting Specialist Bret Duryee - Quality Assurance Specialist

The purpose of this Industry Day Conference is to provide information and to solicit feedback on the upcoming FENCE contract requirements. This conference will provide an information exchange opportunity between the Government and Contractors.

Please do not use this as a marketing opportunity, but as an opportunity to better understand requirements.

Requirements Statement of Need: Provide critical space surveillance operations to operate, maintain, and provide facility support for the nine (9) remote field sites, which gather electronic data for the Alternate Space Computational Center (ASCC), Dahlgren VA. This contract is an essential element of the space surveillance mission and it is anticipated that these requirements will be required through contracted services for fiscal years 2009 – 2015

Mission:

Requirements (cont.)

Overall Objective: To obtain a contract vehicle to support the non-personal services for operations and maintenance (O&M) of the FENCE

Mission System O&M: Electronic systems operations & maintenance, preventive back-up power generator maintenance, logistics support, fuels management, preventive facilities maintenance, environmental, grounds maintenance, roads maintenance, unclassified information management and site security requirements

Contractor shall provide all necessary personnel, administrative, and managerial resources necessary for continuous, 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week (24/7) basis to meet mission requirements as specified in the PWS

Critical Performance Objectives identified in Services Summary Performance Plan for government assessment Monthly Certificate of Service (COS) Yearly Contractor Performance Assessment Report (CPAR)

PWS Service Summary Item:

Chapter 2 – Sensor Operations and Support

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Operational Reporting

Monitor site to provide identification and reporting capability to site degradation or outage.

Para. 1.2.1.3.1.

Identify and Report 95% of site degradations or outages within 10 minutes (per calendar month) and Identify and Report remaining 5% within 30 minutes.

Chapter 3 – Mission System Maintenance

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Accurate and Timely IMDS Data Reporting

Para. 1.3.1.2.

Per calendar month, report 95% of IMDS or Equipment Status Report (ESR) reportable data via the IMDS website on the same calendar day, and remaining 5% on the next calendar day.

Assessment Items will also be included in the Performance Plan

Appendix A

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Deliverable Submission

Appendix A, Deliverables

Missed deliverables shall not exceed 1 per site per month.

Missed deliverables shall be delivered within 1 delivery interval (i.e., if deliverable is required within 3 calendar days, an additional 3 calendar days is allowed), or an additional 10 calendar days, whichever is less (10 calendar days applies for deliverables without a listed interval).

Mission Briefing

FENCE Mission

UNCLASSIFIED

20 SPCS, Eglin AFB

Lt Col Shane Connary

Overview

Mission

Chain Of Command

Locations

Taskings

Way Ahead

Maintain a constant surveillance of space and provide satellite data as directed by US Strategic Command, to fulfill national requirements

Contribute to USSTRATCOM and theater war fighter requirements by providing uninterrupted exposure, identification, and reporting of orbital satellite positional and intelligence data

CDRUSSTRATCOM

CDR JFCC / SGS

(8 AF/CC)

14 AF/CC

21 SW/CC

AFSPC/CC

The Wing Ensures Its

Squadrons Are “Always Ready”

21 SW/CC

NORTHCOM / NORAD (Customer)

JFCC IMD

(Customer)

21 OSS/CC

AF Sq

(SPCS/CC)

ADCON

(Service/Administrative Chain of Command)

OPCON

(Joint/Operational Chain of Command)

20 SPCS/CC

21 OG/CC

CDR JFCC / SPACE

(14 AF/CC)

JSpOC

(VAFB, CMAFB

GOC, GS AOC…)

FENCE Locations

The Air Force Space Surveillance System is also known as the “Fence” because several transmitters and receivers create a narrow, continent- wide planar energy field in space. Satellites passing through the energy field or “Fence” can be detected. The “Fence” mission is: to maintain a constant surveillance of space and provide satellite data as directed by US Strategic Command, to fulfill national requirements.

The nine (9) FENCE sites are located on a path across the southern United States from Georgia to California along the 33rd parallel and consist of three (3) transmitter and six (6) receiver sites. The main transmitting station located at Lake Kickapoo, Texas, has an average power output of 766,800 watts feeding a two-mile long antenna array. It provides the primary source of illumination. Two other transmitting stations are located at Jordan Lake, Alabama, and Gila River, Arizona. These stations, with average power output of approximately 40,000 watts each, improve low altitude illumination at the sides of the main beam. Receiving stations are located at Tattnall, Georgia; Hawkinsville, Georgia; Silver Lake, Mississippi; Red River, Arkansas; Elephant Butte, New Mexico; and San Diego, California. The stations at Hawkinsville and Elephant Butte have larger antennas for high altitude detection in addition to low earth capability. Energy emitted from the transmitter sites forms a fixed position, very narrow, fan shaped beam in the north-south direction extending across the continental United States in the east-west direction. One or more of the receiver sites receives energy reflected from objects penetrating the beam.

HQ AFSPC conducts the surveillance mission through three operational functions. First, a network of three transmitter and six receiver stations located on a great circle across the southern United States performs data acquisition of a satellite radar reflection. Next, data from the surveillance system is transmitted via a communications network back to the Mission Processing System (MPS) in Dahlgren, Virginia. In the processing center, computers perform satellite detection and correlation with predictions. Finally, the MPS stores, retrieves, and updates orbital elements for all orbital objects that can be detected by the AFSSS and other sensors.

The end product is a backup product is backup catalog consisting of currently over 9,000 objects that will be used as necessary during Alternate Space Control Center (ASCC) activations.

FENCE Optical Coverage

Notional view from space of the “Space Fence” surveillance system.

This is a notional view of the current AF Space Surveillance System showing both transmitter and receiver sites across the southern United States.

FENCE Future

Future Plans Potentially Impacting FENCE

Technical Order (TO) Development

ITT/SENSOR currently developing maintenance TOs for transmitter and receiver sites - ECD 3rd Qtr FY09

Summary

Locations

Taskings

Questions?

“Overview” is hyperlinked back to the overview slide.

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Major Briefer

21 SW/XX

DSN 834-XXXX

Slide Title

Short, to-the-point bullets

Pictures tell a 1,000 words

Graphs & figures are good too

CC Likes banners at the bottom

Capacity issue: Due to an increase in demand from new facility construction. Currently 2 feeders from Colorado Springs Utility must be upgraded from 600amps to 1200amps each

Maintenance issues: Loose bushings could result in unscheduled outages for MFH and potential fire hazard in the transformers. Several loose bushings were detected during Secondary Distribution Project this summer. Maintenance timeframe will be in the Spring…prior notifications will be conducted These issues affect family housing and will require several (about six) one hour outages.

Feeder Upgrade: If not accomplished Peterson AFB will have serious demand issues this summer during peak consumption times requiring significant load shedding procedures. Affected areas for each outage will be provided to facility managers and advertised in Space Observer

Maintenance Issues

Loose bushings could result in unscheduled outages for MFH and potential fire hazard in the transformers

Timeframe will be in the Spring…prior notifications will be conducted

Thank

You!

Future Plans potentially Impacting FENCE

ITT/SENSOR currently developing maintenance TOs for transmitter and receiver sites - ECD 3rd Qtr FY09

Future Requirements

The current requirement is to operate, maintain and man the FENCE on a 24 hours a day/7 days a week basis. Currently, the Air Force is contemplating a reduction to 12 hours a day/7 days a week with the mission system running 24 hours a day/7 days a week

Please be advised that should the Air Force decide on any reductions, each interested party will be notified via e-mail and a revised performance work statement will be posted on FedBiz Ops

Future Requirements (cont.)

The Air Force is interested in obtaining industry feedback to the following questions:

Do you have any recommended changes to the PWS requirements to make the new contract more efficient and effective?

Based upon a potential CONOPS of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, what issues, problems or challenges do you see in implementation and continued FENCE operations?

Risk Assessment Overall Program Risk (Unmitigated & Mitigated): Low Consequence

Near Certainty Highly Likely Likely Low Likelihood Not Likely Negligible Minor Moderate Serious Critical Low Moderate High Likelihood

Risk 1: If the contractor does not retain knowledgeable employees to train new operators and maintainers at the FENCE sites, then system operations could potentially be degraded.

Mitigation:

Future availability of TOs Industry awareness of risk Criteria in Request for Proposal

W/out mitigation With mitigation

Legend

Low Likelihood Not Likely Negligible Minor Moderate Serious Critical Low Moderate

Likely

New Contract Information

Solicitation #: FA2517-06-R-8002 6 year, 6 month Firm-Fixed Price Contract Fixed Price CLINS: Operations & Maintenance will be on separate CLINs Operations and Maintenance services for FENCE Sites

New Contract Information (cont.)

Receiver Sites cont: San Diego, California Truth or Consequences (Elephant Butte) New Mexico

Cost Reimbursable (CR) CLINs:

Local Purchase (Supplies and services in support of the sites) PWS Ch 6, Severable Work (Within-scope of work in support of site not specifically identified in the PWS) Each work order negotiated on a fixed price or CR basis Government will provide CR CLIN amounts in RFP

Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs) as the only performance incentive Service Contract Act (SCA) Applicable Currently under Area Wage Determination (AWD) Alabama – 2005-2012 Rev (5) Arizona – 2005-2024 Rev (7) Arkansas – 2005-2236 Rev (6) California – 2005-2058 Rev (5) Georgia – 2005-2140 Rev (4) Georgia, South Carolina – 2005-2142 Rev (5) Mississippi – 2005-2296 Rev (5) New Mexico, Texas – 2005-2512 Rev (4) District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia – 2005-2103 Rev (4) Oklahoma, Texas – 2005-2526 Rev (3)

Service Contract Act (SCA) Applicable Currently under Collective Bargaining Agreements Arkansas – Local Union 386 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Alabama – Local Union 443 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 New Mexico – Local Union 611 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Arizona – Local Union 640 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Texas – Local Union 681 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Mississippi – Local Union 985 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Hawkinsville, GA –Local Union 84 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08 Tattnall, GA – Local Union 84 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08Employment Positions by Location [NOTE: DFARS clause 252.232-7007, Limitation of Government’s Obligation will be included in this contract in the event it must be incrementally funded]

Contract Periods of Performance Total 6 years, 6 months

Current NAICS code: 517919 (formerly 517910) (3 year average gross revenue of $23M) This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized telecommunications services, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operation. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in providing satellite terminal stations and associated facilities connected with one or more terrestrial systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to, and receiving telecommunications from, satellite systems. Establishments providing Internet services or voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services via client-supplied telecommunications connections are also included in this industry telecommunications connections are also included in this industry.

FENCE

NAICS

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Wide Area Workflow

Competitive 8(a) Set-aside Offerors may partner with other than Small Business but must perform at least 51% of the contract requirements Will be evaluated in Past Performance and Technical

Performance-Price Trade-off Procedures IAW FAR Part 15 SSA performs an integrated best value assessment Importance of Factors Past Performance is approximately equal to price considerations PPT Procedure Technical evaluated on Pass/Fail Past Performance Confidence Assessment determined Price ranked Potential Trade-off between Past Performance and Price

Source Selection – Technical Technical Evaluation Subfactors will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis:

Subfactor 1: Mission Systems Operations & Maintenance Training Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate if proposal meets PWS Chapters 1.2 and 1.3 requirements Subfactor 2: Staffing Plan Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate personnel to meet PWS requirements Subfactor 3: Management Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate quality control, supply and maintenance controls and procedures

Source Selection – Price/Cost All technically acceptable proposals will be evaluated for price reasonableness and affordability and then ranked by total evaluated price Reasonableness: IAW FAR 15.404-1(b), proposals will be reviewed for compliance with the requirements specified in Section L of the Request for Proposal (RFP)

Affordability: Assessment will consider the total estimated contract price as compared to the projected budget for this program

Source Selection – Past Performance Past Performance Criteria will address:

Relevancy/Recency/Quality Recency (within last 5 years) Relevancy (“Relevant,” “Somewhat Relevant” or “Not Relevant” in terms of size, scope and complexity to FENCE requirements Performance CPARs from PPIRS PCAG Review completed questionnaires and contact references Other Sources (DCMA, DCAA, etc) Each Offeror/Team will be given a Past Performance Confidence Assessment Rating

Current contract has Government Furnished Property (GFP) listings for mission and non-mission items GFP and inventory lists will be made available to interested sources via the technical library referenced in the RFP All GFP that will be made available to successful offeror on an “as is” basis

Government Furnished Information Technical Library will be available on FedTeDs.gov for interested offerors Will include relevant unclassified information available for offerors to review in preparing a responsive proposal such as:

Inventories, site drawings, mission system diagrams, reimbursable expenditure reports and Navy field station operating procedures Information provided to any offeror will be made available to all offerors

Security Considerations Contractor personnel will not have access to or process any classified information No clearance requirement DD Form 254 will not be required

Projected Milestones

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AIR FORCE SPACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (FENCE)

Industry Days

Rusty HAtfield, Acq Program Manager

Bret Duryee, Quality Assurance Specialist

Carlo Mosca, Contracting Officer

XXXXXXXXXXX Space dude

27 Mar 08

Industry Day Agenda

Government Introductions

Requirements

Mission Briefing

Future Requirements

Risk Assessment

New Contract Information

Contract Periods of Performance

NAICS

Industry Day Agenda (cont.)

Government Furnished Information

FENCE Projected Milestones

Questions and Answers

One-on-One Discussions 27 – 28 Mar

Government Team Introductions

Rusty Hatfield – Acquisition Program Manager

Carlo Mosca - Contracting Officer

Renata Ott - Contracting Specialist

Bret Duryee - Quality Assurance Specialist

??????????? – Space Surveillance Operations Functional Expert

The purpose of this Industry Day Conference is to provide information and to solicit feedback on the upcoming FENCE contract requirements. This conference will provide an information exchange opportunity between the Government and

Contractors.

Please do not use this as a marketing opportunity, but as an opportunity to better understand requirements.

Requirements

Statement of Need: Provide critical space surveillance operations to operate, maintain, and provide facility support for the nine (9) remote field sites, which gather electronic data for the Alternate Space Computational Center (ASCC), Dahlgren VA. This contract is an essential element of the space surveillance mission and it is anticipated that these requirements will be required through contracted services for fiscal years 2009 – 2015

Mission:

Execute the space control mission by performing all-weather, 24-hour tracking of man-made objects

Contribute to USSTRATCOM and theater war fighter requirements through continuous detection, identification, and reporting of orbital satellite positional and intelligence data

Operate and maintain 9 field sites dedicated to tracking over 10,000 near-earth and deep-space objects

This requirement is in support of the GEODSS system comprised of 3 geographically separated Detachments – Detachment 1 in Socorro, NM; Detachment 2 in Diego Garcia; and Detachment 3 in Maui, Hawaii.

The GEODSS system detects, tracks and reports on all deep-space man-made objects within the telescope’s field of view.

Overall Objective: To obtain a contract vehicle to support the non-personal services for operations and maintenance (O&M) of the FENCE

Mission System O&M: Electronic systems operations & maintenance, back-up power generator maintenance, land mobile radio communications maintenance, logistics, fuels management, facilities maintenance, environmental, grounds maintenance, roads maintenance, occupational health and safety, unclassified information management and site security requirements

This slide shows the high-level contracted service requirements for 24/7 support to the 3 GEODSS locations.

It is important to note that GEODSS is the only 21 SW mission contract where actual “Operation” of the mission system is performed by Contractor personnel. In other mission areas, the operations are performed by “blue suit” personnel.

Integration, sustainment and modernization requirements are supported by the 850th ELSG through their SENSOR contract (Contract #F19628-02-C-0010).

Contractor shall provide all necessary personnel, administrative, and managerial resources necessary for continuous, 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week (24/7) basis to meet mission requirements as specified in the PWS

Critical Performance Objectives identified in Services Summary

Performance Plan established

Monthly Certificate of Service (COS)

Yearly Contractor Performance Assessment Report (CPAR)

Chapter 2 – Sensor Operations and Support

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Operational Reporting

Para. 1.2.1.3.1.

Per month, monitor site to ensure 5 minute reporting response capability to site degradation or outage to Report Outages or Reduced Capability within 5 minutes of identification 95% of occurrences per calendar month, remaining 5% identified within 15 minutes and reported within 15 minutes of identification. Outage and Reduced Capability defined in Standard Operating Procedures N3120_1A, 3A, 4A, and 6A.

Chapter 2 – Sensor Operations and Support

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Accurate and Timely IMDS Reporting

Para. 1.3.1.2.

Data Reporting: Per month, report 95% IMDS or ESR reportable data via the IMDS website or 20SPCS/MA? (Eglin Mission Operations Center, MOC) as applicable. Input data same day or immediately as actions occur as required, remaining 5% of IMDS or ESR to be completed next day.

Data Correction: Per month, respond to 21SW Maintenance Operations Flight (Office Symbol??), for 95% of actions requiring correction, to ensure IMDS data is corrected to meet required timelines, 5 days for ??, and 33 days for ??. Remaining 5% of IMDS or ESR actions cannot be corrected after timeline cutoff listed above.

Assessment Items will also be included in the Performance Plan

Chapter 2 – Sensor Operations and Support

Performance Objective

PWS Reference

Performance Threshold

Timely Deliverable Submission

Appendix A, Deliverables

1 Missed Deliverable per site per month completed and delivered on-time IAW required timelines with any missed deliverables completed and delivered within (1)One delivery interval (i.e., if Deliverable is required within 3 days, an additional 3 days is allowed), or 10 calendar days, whichever is less (10 calendar days applies for deliverables without a listed interval).

Mission Briefing

XXXX

NCO Space Surveillance Operations

Purpose

Provide a brief overview of the Air Force Space Surveillance System (FENCE) mission

Locations

Taskings

Maintain a constant surveillance of space and provide satellite data as directed by US Strategic Command, to fulfill national requirements.

Contribute to USSTRATCOM and theater war fighter requirements by providing uninterrupted exposure, identification, and reporting of orbital satellite positional and intelligence data

CDRUSSTRATCOM

CDR JFCC / SGS

(8 AF/CC)

14 AF/CC

21 SW/CC

21 MDG/CC

21 MXG/CC

21 MSG/CC

721 MSG/CC

AFSPC/CC

The Wing Ensures Its

Squadrons Are “Always Ready”

AF Units

AF Units

NORTHCOM / NORAD (Customer)

JFCC IMD

(Customer)

821 ABG/CC

21 OG/CC

AF Sq / Det

(SWS, GEODSS, SPCS)

ADCON

(Service/Administrative Chain of Command)

OPCON

(Joint/Operational Chain of Command)

CDR JFCC / SPACE

(14 AF/CC)

JSpOC

(VAFB, CMAFB

GOC, GS AOC…)

FENCE Locations

The Air Force Space Surveillance System is also known as the “Fence” because several transmitters and receivers create a narrow, continent- wide planar energy field in space. Satellites passing through the energy field or “Fence” can be detected. The “Fence” mission is: to maintain a constant surveillance of space and provide satellite data as directed by US Strategic Command, to fulfill national requirements.

The nine (9) FENCE sites are located on a path across the southern United States from Georgia to California along the 33rd parallel and consist of three (3) transmitter and six (6) receiver sites. The main transmitting station located at Lake Kickapoo, Texas, has an average power output of 766,800 watts feeding a two-mile long antenna array. It provides the primary source of illumination. Two other transmitting stations are located at Jordan Lake, Alabama, and Gila River, Arizona. These stations, with average power output of approximately 40,000 watts each, improve low altitude illumination at the sides of the main beam. Receiving stations are located at Tattnall, Georgia; Hawkinsville, Georgia; Silver Lake, Mississippi; Red River, Arkansas; Elephant Butte, New Mexico; and San Diego, California. The stations at Hawkinsville and Elephant Butte have larger antennas for high altitude detection in addition to low earth capability. Energy emitted from the transmitter sites forms a fixed position, very narrow, fan shaped beam in the north-south direction extending across the continental United States in the east-west direction. One or more of the receiver sites receives energy reflected from objects penetrating the beam.

HQ AFSPC conducts the surveillance mission through three operational functions. First, a network of three transmitter and six receiver stations located on a great circle across the southern United States performs data acquisition of a satellite radar reflection. Next, data from the surveillance system is transmitted via a communications network back to the Mission Processing System (MPS) in Dahlgren, Virginia. In the processing center, computers perform satellite detection and correlation with predictions. Finally, the MPS stores, retrieves, and updates orbital elements for all orbital objects that can be detected by the AFSSS and other sensors.

The end product is a backup product is backup catalog consisting of currently over 9,000 objects that will be used as necessary during Alternate Space Control Center (ASCC) activations.

FENCE Optical Coverage

Notional view from space of the “Space Fence” surveillance system.

This is a notional view of the current AF Space Surveillance System showing both transmitter and receiver sites across the southern United States.

FENCE Future

Future Plans Potentially Impacting FENCE

ITT/SENSOR currently developing maintenance TOs for transmitter and receiver sites - ECD 3rd Qtr FY09

COA’s

COA1

COA2

COA3 – Combination of COA1 and COA2

Summary

Locations

Taskings

Questions?

“Overview” is hyperlinked back to the overview slide.

Major Briefer

21 SW/XX

DSN 834-XXXX

Slide Title

Short, to-the-point bullets

Pictures tell a 1,000 words

Graphs & figures are good too

CC Likes banners at the bottom

Capacity issue: Due to an increase in demand from new facility construction. Currently 2 feeders from Colorado Springs Utility must be upgraded from 600amps to 1200amps each

Maintenance issues: Loose bushings could result in unscheduled outages for MFH and potential fire hazard in the transformers. Several loose bushings were detected during Secondary Distribution Project this summer. Maintenance timeframe will be in the Spring…prior notifications will be conducted These issues affect family housing and will require several (about six) one hour outages.

Feeder Upgrade: If not accomplished Peterson AFB will have serious demand issues this summer during peak consumption times requiring significant load shedding procedures. Affected areas for each outage will be provided to facility managers and advertised in Space Observer

Maintenance Issues

Loose bushings could result in unscheduled outages for MFH and potential fire hazard in the transformers

Timeframe will be in the Spring…prior notifications will be conducted

Future Plans potentially Impacting FENCE

ITT/SENSOR currently developing maintenance TOs for transmitter and receiver sites - ECD 3rd Qtr FY09

Future Requirements

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to increase the U.S. space surveillance capabilities needed to find, fix, track and characterize small objects in Deep Space at a level that addresses warfighter requirements.

SST is a ground based, electro-optical telescope that is being developed to prove out technologies in curved, charge coupled device (CCD) technology as well as integrating large telescope control methods.

The location for the first SST system is Atom Site, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) complex.

When the system is accepted, the workload data and technical orders will be provided to the GEODSS contractor and the effort will be priced at that time.

The current requirement is to operate and maintain the FENCE on a 24 hours a day/7 days a week basis. Currently, the Air Force is contemplating a reduction in operations (i.e. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week) for the FENCE. Please be advised that should the Air Force decide to reduce operations, each interested party will be notified via e-mail and a revised performance work statement will be posted on FedBis Opps.

As part of the future Communications Architecture – there is Net-Centric Migration planned by 850th to coordinate and integrate data across all the sites. This migration will put data in a usable format and make it available to users in a central location (Similar to web technology but through SIPRNet)

Phase I capability is to provide 2-way communication via SIPRNet and provides core web services

Phase II expands those capabilities

Sensor Controller Group (SCG), Defense Channel Communications Segment (DCCS) and Data Processing Group (DPG) Upgrades will be accomplished in one-year increments beginning in FY10. All three upgrades are scheduled to be completed by FY13 and are planned to be used by both the GEODSS and SST systems.

Mission System Software Drops will continue to be made about once per year

The current requirement is to operate and maintain the FENCE on a 24 hours a day/7 days a week basis. Currently, the Air Force is contemplating a reduction in operations (i.e. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week) for the FENCE. Please be advised that should the Air Force decide to reduce operations, each interested party will be notified via e-mail and a revised performance work statement will be posted on FedBiz Opps.

As part of the future Communications Architecture – there is Net-Centric Migration planned by 850th to coordinate and integrate data across all the sites. This migration will put data in a usable format and make it available to users in a central location (Similar to web technology but through SIPRNet)

Phase I capability is to provide 2-way communication via SIPRNet and provides core web services

Phase II expands those capabilities

Sensor Controller Group (SCG), Defense Channel Communications Segment (DCCS) and Data Processing Group (DPG) Upgrades will be accomplished in one-year increments beginning in FY10. All three upgrades are scheduled to be completed by FY13 and are planned to be used by both the GEODSS and SST systems.

Mission System Software Drops will continue to be made about once per year

The Air Force is interested in obtaining industry feedback to the following questions:

1. What changes are needed to make the new contract more efficient and effective?

2. What restraints that you are aware of that causes the contract to operate less efficiently or effective?

3. What do you feel is working well on the current contract?

4. Please identify areas that can be removed without impacting 24/7 operations?

5. Please identify areas that can be removed without impacting 12/7 operations?

6. Under Performance Based Acquisition principles, it is the responsibility of each offor to propose staffing and skill sets at each of the sites. You are not bound by any previous/current staffing levels or skill sets when submitting your proposal.

As part of the future Communications Architecture – there is Net-Centric Migration planned by 850th to coordinate and integrate data across all the sites. This migration will put data in a usable format and make it available to users in a central location (Similar to web technology but through SIPRNet)

Phase I capability is to provide 2-way communication via SIPRNet and provides core web services

Phase II expands those capabilities

Sensor Controller Group (SCG), Defense Channel Communications Segment (DCCS) and Data Processing Group (DPG) Upgrades will be accomplished in one-year increments beginning in FY10. All three upgrades are scheduled to be completed by FY13 and are planned to be used by both the GEODSS and SST systems.

Mission System Software Drops will continue to be made about once per year

Overall Program Risk (Unmitigated & Mitigated): Low

Likely

Low Likelihood

Not Likely

Negligible

Minor

Moderate

Serious

Critical

Low

Moderate

Overall Acquisition Risk prior to Mitigation is “High”. Each of the risks and mitigation strategies will be discussed on the following slides.

Risk 1: If the contractor does not retain knowledgeable employees to train new operators and maintainers at the FENCE sites, then system operations could potentially be degraded.

Mitigation:

Future availability of TOs

Industry awareness of risk

Criteria in Request for Proposal

W/out mitigation

With mitigation

Legend

Low Likelihood

Not Likely

Negligible

Minor

Moderate

Serious

Critical

Low

Moderate

Likely

New Contract Information

Solicitation #: FA2517-06-R-8002

6 year, 6 month Firm-Fixed Price Contract

Fixed Price CLINS: Operations & Maintenance will be on separate CLINs

Operations and Maintenance services for FENCE Sites

High Power Transmitter Site: Archer City (Lake Kickapoo), Texas

Low Power Transmitter Sites: Wetumpka (Jordan Lake), Alabama

Maricopa (Gila River), Arizona

Receiver Sites: Glennville (Tattnall), Georgia

Hawkinsville, Georgia

Hollandale (Silver Lake), Mississippi

Lewisville (Red River), Arkansas)

- Cost Reimbursable (CR) CLINs:

Local Purchase (Supplies and services in support of the sites)

Individual Job Order (IJO) (Within-scope work in support of site not specifically identified in the PWS – See PWS Ch 6, Severable Work)

Each work order negotiated on a fixed price or CR basis

Government will provide CR CLIN amounts in RFP

Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs) as the only performance incentive

Service Contract Act (SCA) Applicable

Currently under Are Wage Determination (AWD)

Alabama – 2005-2012 Rev (5)Arizona – 2005-2024 Rev (7)

Arkansas – 2005-2236 Rev (6)California – 2005-2058 Rev (5)

District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia – 2005-2103 Rev (4)

Georgia – 2005-2140 Rev (4) Georgia, South Carolina – 2005-2142 Rev (5)

Mississippi – 2005-2296 Rev (5)

New Mexico, Texas – 2005-2512 Rev (4)

Oklahoma, Texas – 2005-2526 Rev (3)

Alabama – 2005-2012 Rev (5)

Service Contract Act (SCA) Applicable

Currently under Collective Bargaining Agreements

Arkansas – Local Union 386 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Alabama – Local Union 443 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

New Mexico – Local Union 611 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Arizona – Local Union 640 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Texas – Local Union 681 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Mississippi – Local Union 985 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Hawkinsville, GA –Local Union 84 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08

Tattnall, GA – Local Union 84 1 Oct 05 thru 30 Sep 08Employment Positions by Location

[NOTE: DFARS clause 252.232-7007, Limitation of Government’s

Obligation will be included in this contract in the event it must be incrementally funded]

Contract Periods of Performance

Total 6 years, 6 months

Phase In FY09 1 Feb 2009 – 30 Mar 2009

Basic Period FY09 1 Apr 2009 – 30 Sep 2009

Option 1 FY10 1 Oct 2009 – 30 Sep 2010

Option 2 FY11 1 Oct 2010 – 30 Sep 2011

Option 3 FY12 1 Oct 2011 – 30 Sep 2012

Option 4 FY13 1 Oct 2012 – 30 Sep 2013

Option 5 FY14 1 Oct 2013 – 30 Sep 2014

Option 6 FY15 1 Oct 2014 – 30 Sep 2015

Current NAICS code: 517919 (formerly 517910) (3 year average gross revenue of $23M)

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized telecommunications services, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operation. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in providing satellite terminal stations and associated facilities connected with one or more terrestrial systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to, and receiving telecommunications from, satellite systems. Establishments providing Internet services or voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) services via client-supplied telecommunications connections are also included in this industry telecommunications connections are also included in this industry.

NAICS

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Use of Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) for invoicing

Reduces DOD interest penalties

Invoices will be submitted electronically

Acceptance will be accomplished electronically

Information available at: http://wawftraining.com

Competitive 8(a) Set-aside

Offerors may partner with other than Small Business but must perform at least 51% of the contract requirements

Will be evaluated in Past Performance and Technical

Performance-Price Trade-off Procedures IAW FAR Part 15

SSA performs an integrated best value assessment

Importance of Factors

Past Performance is approximately equal to price considerations

PPT Procedure

Technical evaluated on Pass/Fail

Past Performance Confidence Assessment determined

Price ranked

Potential Trade-off between Past Performance and Price

Source Selection – Technical

Technical Evaluation

Subfactors will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis:

Subfactor 1: Mission Systems Operations & Maintenance Training

Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate if proposal meets PWS Chapters 1.2 and 1.3 requirements

Subfactor 2: Staffing Plan

Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate personnel to meet PWS requirements

Subfactor 3: Management

Use of a pass/fail checklist to evaluate quality control, supply and maintenance controls and procedures

Source Selection – Price/Cost

All technically acceptable proposals will be evaluated for price reasonableness and affordability and then ranked by total evaluated price

Reasonableness: IAW FAR 15.404-1(b), proposals will be reviewed for compliance with the requirements specified in Section L of the Request for Proposal (RFP)

Affordability: Assessment will consider the total estimated contract price as compared to the projected budget for this program

Source Selection – Past Performance

Past Performance

Criteria will address:

Relevancy/Recency/Quality

Recency (within last 5 years)

Relevancy (“Relevant,” “Somewhat Relevant” or “Not Relevant” in terms of size, scope and complexity to FENCE requirements

Performance

CPARs from PPIRS

PCAG Review completed questionnaires and contact references

Other Sources (DCMA, DCAA, etc)

Each Offeror/Team will be given a Past Performance Confidence Assessment Rating

Current contract has Government Furnished Property (GFP) listings for mission and non-mission items

GFP and inventory lists will be made available to interested sources via the technical library referenced in the RFP

All GFP that will be made available to successful offeror on an “as is” basis

Government Furnished Information

Technical Library will be available on FedTeDs.gov for interested offerors

Will include relevant unclassified information available for offerors to review in preparing a responsive proposal such as:

Inventories, site drawings, mission system diagrams, reimbursable expenditure reports and Navy field station operating procedures

Information provided to any offeror will be made available to all offerors

Security Considerations

Contractor personnel will not have access to nor process any classified information

No clearance requirement

DD Form 254 will not be required

Projected Milestones

Issuance of Synopsis 14 Apr 08

Issue Request for Proposal (RFP) 28 Apr 08

Receipt of Proposals 29 May 08

Initial Proposal Evaluation 30 Jun 08

Discussions 26 Sep 08

Decision Briefing 12 Nov 08

Contract Award 22 Jan 09

Notice to Unsuccessful Offerors 23 Jan 09

Hold Pre-Performance Conference 26 Jan 09

Phase-In Start 1 Feb 09

Contract Start 1 Apr 09

Contract Completion 30 Sep 2015