GARDEM_Industry_Day_Notice_-_06FEB18.pdf

FBO SYNOPSIS FOR PROCUREMENT ACTIONS

1. ACTION CODE: S (Special Notice)

2. CLASSIFICATION CODE : R – Professional, administrative, and management support services

3. NAICS CODE: 541511 – Custom Computer Programming Services

4. TITLE/SUBJECT: Pre-Solicitation Meeting/Industry Day announcement for Global Application Research, Development, Engineering & Maintenance (GARDEM)

5. CLOSING RESPONSE DATE Month: 03 Day: 13 Year: 2018

6. PRIMARY CONTACT POINT: Dawn Mazza, Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR),

(315) 330-7311, email: dawn.mazza@us.af.mil. Alternate POCs are Stephen Colenzo, (315) 330-7665, email: stephen.colenzo@us.af.mil and Robert Gigliotti, (315) 330-2205, email:

robert.gigliotti@us.af.mil.

7. DESCRIPTION: AFRL will be conducting a Pre-Solicitation Meeting/Industry Day for the GARDEM acquisition. The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested companies/entities with an overview of the GARDEM contract, promote an early exchange of information, and provide an opportunity for both the Government and Industry to gather more information prior to the DRAFT RFP and RFP being issued. A general session will be held as a morning event on Wednesday, 21 March 2018 for interested parties to obtain information from the Government Program Managers and Contracting team. The program management team will also be hosting 30-minute private appointments on 21 March 2018 (1:00 – 4:00pm), and 22 March 2018 (8:00am – 4:00pm). Indicate if a 30-minute private appointment is desired, and, if so, the preferred day.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome NY (AFRL/RI), has a requirement to perform research, development, prototyping, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment and maintenance of innovative technologies and concepts in support for Global Application Research, Development, Engineering and Maintenance (GARDEM) software baselines. GARDEM provides Air Force, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community (IC) and other Federal Agencies with a software toolkit that provides a general data visualization and analysis infrastructure for the analysis of temporal, spatial, entity, and association information, report generation, incident reporting, workflow, and query/search. Web-Enabled Temporal Analysis System (WebTAS) Enterprise (WE), Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE), and International Distributed Uniform Reporting Environment (INDURE) make up the primary software applications in the GARDEM toolset. The flexible toolset architecture provides access to multiple data sources, data mining, information fusion, and collaboration tools that facilitate trend, link, pattern, and distributed analysis to support activity prediction and customer unique capabilities. This effort will perform research and development, design, analysis, studies, engineering, integration, test, evaluation and operations and maintenance support for current and new users of the GARDEM software toolset. Technical enhancements are needed to correct any identified shortcomings in the toolset and to provide additional capabilities, features, processes, and documentation. The enhancements will extend GARDEM toolset functions and provide more effective and efficient capabilities to meet the needs of the users. Due to real world events, rapid software releases are required to maximize our technological capabilities at current and future deployed sites worldwide. Installation support will be needed to install the GARDEM toolset software and hardware, and train users at multiple sites throughout the world. For example, sites such as United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), which involve contingency operations and quick response to warfighter needs will require this installation support. Operations and maintenance actions will be needed to provide continued system maintenance to current customer sites and to the new sites after system installation. In the course of performance, the contractor will interface with various DoD and Government agencies through visits and electronic means, and technical visits that will take place at various sites, worldwide. Anticipated deliverables include software, hardware, and technical documentation.

For the aforementioned requirements, the Government anticipates award of a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with Cost Plus Fixed-Fee Completion (CPFF/C), Cost Pus Fixed-Fee Term (CPFF/T) and Firm Fixed-Price (FFP) task orders.

Due to space constraints, attendance will be limited to two individuals per company.

Representatives must be cleared through the company they are registered with. Attendees must be US Citizens or Permanent resident Aliens. Attendees are encouraged to submit written questions in advance. Note: This is NOT a “bidders conference” and this announcement is not a contract, request for proposal, a promise to contract, or a commitment of any kind. The Government will not assume liability for costs incurred by any offeror for presentations, marketing efforts or data offered for examination; therefore the cost of preparing information in response to this notice is not considered an allowable direct charge to the Government.

Date: 21 and 22 March 2018 Location: AFRL Rome Research Site, 525 Brooks Road, Rome NY 13441-4514, Building 3, Urtz Conference Room; Time: Check-in 7:30am – 8:30am; General Session, 8:30am – 12:00pm.

Due to security constraints, attendees arriving after 8:30am cannot be accommodated.

Primary POC:

Dawn Mazza, GARDEM COR

(315) 330-7311, dawn.mazza@us.af.mil

Alternate POCs:

Stephen Colenzo

(315) 330-7665 stephen.colenzo@us.af.mil

Robert Gigliotti

(315) 330-2205 robert.gigliotti@us.af.mil

Attendees must register by Monday March 13, 2018 to gain access to the facility. Requests after this date may not be accommodated.

Register by sending a plain text email to the following address: robert.gigliotti@us.af.mil. Please include the following information:

Traveler’s full name:

Company:

CAGE code:

Contact number:

Email address (unclass):

Indicate if a 30-minute private appointment is desired and the preferred day.

In addition to the above, all interested parties must complete the attached RRS Form 31 and mail/fax it to AFRL/RIOF as indicated in the bottom left-hand corner of the first page, no later than Monday, 13 March 2018.