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REMIS Special Notice FA873214D0028-SC01

Special Notice to Industry

Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS) Sustainment and Development Services Support

FA8732-14-D-0028-SC01

7 April 2017

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), AFPEO Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate, Contract Division (BES/HIAK), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio is publishing this Special Notice to advise Industry it intends to issue a modification to Task Order (TO) FA8732-14-D-0028- SC01 to add an additional thirty-six (36) months to the performance period for Information Technology (IT) services to support the Reliability and Maintainability Information System. The Government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source IAW 10 U.S.C. 2304 (c)(1) as implemented by FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i)(B).

The Government is not seeking capability or technical responses to this Special Notice from industry at this time; however, comments or statements of interest for future REMIS sustainment and development acquisitions may be submitted for market research purposes only.

1.0 SPECIAL NOTICE TO INDUSTRY

This Special Notice is to provide transparency to the public for Air Force IT acquisitions and is for information purposes only. This is to advise industry that the Government intends to execute a TO modification to make an award by 28 Feb 18 or earlier to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation; Northrop Grumman Information Systems; 2340 Dulles Corner Blvd, Herndon, VA 20171-3400; CAGE code 5FVX5 under NETCENTS-2 Application Services Contract FA8732-14- D-0028, TO SC01. This is not a request for competitive proposals and no solicitation is available.

Additionally, as detailed in Section 5.0, the AF anticipates the first competitive REMIS sustainment support contract to be awarded in FY20, with Market Research efforts beginning approximately 24 months prior.

Any response to this Special Notice will be treated as information for market research only. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of submission of responses to this announcement or the Government use of such information. This notice does not constitute a solicitation for proposals or the authority to enter into negotiations to award a contract. No funds have been authorized, appropriated, or received for this effort.

Any information provided by industry may be used by the Air Force in developing its acquisition strategy, statement of work or statement of objectives and performance specifications for this and future acquisitions. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information included in any response or communication as the result of this notice. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this notice or to otherwise pay for any information submitted in response to this notice.

2.0 NAICS CODE

North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this notice is 541511. Small Business Size Standard is $27.5M in annual average gross revenue for the last three fiscal years, as defined by FAR Part 19.

3.0 CLASSIFICATION CODE

Classification Code D, Information Technology Services, Including Telecommunications Services;

399, Other Automated Data Processing and Telecommunications Services.

4.0 SYSTEM DESCRIPTON

REMIS is the Air Force (AF) Maintenance Enterprise system providing organizational, intermediate and depot level operational authoritative information for all AF weapon systems (Aircraft including: Fighter, Bomber, Transport and Helicopter; RPV; Satellite, Missile; Trainer;

MRAP; Communications-Electronics; ICBM and Support Equipment) supporting AF World-Wide Operating Bases and Logistic Centers. REMIS is a large, complex Core unclassified information system featuring a centralized database containing Air Force-wide inventory, status, utilization, maintenance, and configuration data. The data is reported from base level units and operating locations all over the world. REMIS is the primary Air Force data system used for collecting, integrating, editing, standardizing, processing and reporting equipment maintenance information, as well as providing on-line, interactive access to a comprehensive source of this validated, integrated information for all authorized Air Force users on a global, world-wide basis.

Additionally, REMIS is a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) critical financial feeder system that provides reliable accounting and depreciation of all Air Force aerospace vehicles.

Sustainment of REMIS includes all activities required to keep the system hardware, software, and database useable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (24x7x365). REMIS resides on Red Hat Linux and Windows Server 2008 virtual operating environments, which are currently located in a contractor facility outside of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Beavercreek, Ohio.

REMIS operates in accordance with Air Force business rules specified in the 00-20 Series Technical Orders, Air Force Instructions (AFI) 21-103, AFI 16-402, and AFI 21-101.

− The USAF enterprise system for aerospace vehicle and missile inventory including ICBMs, Status and Utilization − The USAF enterprise system of input for all reportable Depot Maintenance data − The USAF enterprise system for all reliability and maintainability related weapon system maintenance data.

− A critical financial feeder system for CFO reporting directly to the Defense Financial & Accounting Service (DFAS), providing accounting on all Air Force aerospace vehicles (aircraft/RPV/satellite/MRAP) and missiles to include ICBMs

− REMIS is supporting the USAF CFO assertion and the follow-on Department of Defense (DoD) 2015/2017 congressional assertions

− Maintain and distribute master validation tables to Base, Depot, and Weapon System applications enabling data integrity and standardization

Platform System Software

HP Proliant Mid-Tier Servers

VMWare ESXi hosts, Red Hat Linux O/S, Windows Server 2008 O/S, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle MySQL Enterprise, Oracle Goldengate, IBM Cognos, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and Java EE code

5.0 REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION

REMIS was executing the plan for removing the remaining barriers to competition by completing the conversion of code from HP NonStop proprietary COBOL/SCOBOL to JAVA EE, to be followed by a transition to a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Common Computing Environment (CCE). Being an Enterprise Application, REMIS is required to be hosted in a Core Data Center (i.e., DISA CCE) in order to comply with the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative mandate.

The code conversion was completed and deployed on task order FA8770-10-D-0001-0010. A delay was incurred with the transition to the DISA CCE Pre-Production environment on task order FA8770-10-D-0001-0014 that was caused by the government. The timeline estimates provided by DISA during planning were extended during implementation and exceeded the Period of Performance on TO 0014. Based on the current implementation schedules, the Government has determined that the Pre-Production transition will not be completed until February 2018, and Production will not be completed until October 2019. As a result of extending TO 0014, it will be necessary to also extend TO FA8732-14-D-0028-SC01, Sustainment and Development, in order to complete the Production transition under an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP).

Upon completing the development effort and transition of REMIS into an approved CCE, it is anticipated that an award for the follow-on REMIS sustainment contract will tentatively occur in the 1st-2nd quarter of FY20. The AF anticipates the FY20 award to be the first competitive REMIS sustainment support contract. Market research will begin approximately 24 months prior and will be conducted among NETCENTS-2 vendors in accordance with US Air Force mandatory Information Technology acquisition policy.

6.0 SUBMITTAL INFORMATION FOR COMMENTS

Any comments concerning this special notice should be addressed to the Contracting Officer, Linda.Cumberworth@us.af.mil and the Contract Specialist, Lisa.Brown.2@us.af.mil.