FA8770-21-R-0004 - SSDA Request For Information (RFI).pdf

FA8770-21-R-0004

SSDA Follow-On

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS DIRECTORATE

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE OHIO

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Spectrum System Development Architecture (SSDA)

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.

REQUESTS FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate (HI), Enterprise Logistics Systems (HIA) Contracting Division (HIKA), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio is conducting market research seeking vendor interest for the AFLCMC Logistics Maintenance Workflow Product Line (HIM) Spectrum Systems Development Architecture (SSDA) contract.

This RFI is for planning purposes only and shall not be considered as an invitation for bid, request for quotation, request for proposal, or as an obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any products or services. Your response to this RFI will be treated as information only.

No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses to this announcement or the Government use of such information. This request 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.

The information provided is considered market research and may be used by the Air Force in developing its acquisition strategy, statement of work or statement of objectives and performance specifications. Interested parties are responsible for adequately marking proprietary or competition sensitive information contained in their response. The Government reserves the right to contact the submitting parties, on an as required basis, for further clarification on material provided. The Government reserves the right to contact additional customers to obtain information that will be used to evaluate the offeror’s interest.

The purpose of this market research is to determine if any vendor has the capability to provide the required maintenance, sustainment, and development services. These services will provide a standard infrastructure design for the Depot Maintenance System Integration (DSMI) systems and will provide common reusable application services. The lack of competition is due to the use of proprietary data.

The Period of Performance (PoP) is projected to be five (5) years: Base year, four (4) one (1) -year options and a six (6) month extension of Services (EoS) (if required) for a total of five

(5) and one-half years and is anticipated to begin no later than 1 July 2021.

Vendors responding to the RFI shall submit the requested information due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 16 December 2020. Responses should be sent electronically to the Contracting Officer, Mr. Daniel Holliday, via email at daniel.holliday.3@us.af.mil and a courtesy copy to Contract Specialist, Ms. Lisa Brown, via email lisa.brown.2@us.af.mil. The Government will not entertain telephone calls for this RFI; related questions may be emailed to the Contracting Team.

BACKGROUND

The Spectrum System Development Architecture SSDATM is an established framework that provides for consistent delivery and implementation of software system development using the SAP™ (formerly Sybase) toolset. The SSDATM is not an application, and it does not dictate the implementation of any business solution. It is an architecture that brings a level of rigor, consistency, and predictability to the development of quality applications in a client/server and/or web environment to all of Depot Maintenance System Integration (DMSI) Components. It allows for DMSI to build standard, structured, and scalable enterprise level applications.

The SSDATM provides a standard infrastructure design for the DMSI components and a host of common application services. This infrastructure includes software components, class libraries, objects, System Business Transactions (SBT) templates, System Select Transactions (SST), and System Utility templates (SUT) proprietary to NCI Information Systems, Inc. These elements are implemented into Appeon PowerBuilder, and Oracle Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) and known as the SSDATM Framework.

The SSDA provides the following common reusable services: Administration Module, Application Level/role based Security, Error Handling, Transaction Management, Common GUI Look & Feel, Object/Component Management, Application Scenarios, Application Partitioning, Broadcast Messaging, Report Engine, AF Portal Ready and Audit Logging. These basic infrastructure services are mandatory for any type of application/system and are used by all of the DMSI components which directly equates to a cost savings to DMSI because the components benefit from these common standard services without having to expend the resources and time to develop and/or maintain them across their application and/or the DMSI enterprise.

The SSDATM supports client/server and the Web Java Security Module. The SSDATM also uses many other industry standard technologies and tools such as Java Server Pages (JSPs), JSP Tags, JavaScript, Oracle stored procedures, PL/SQL, XML, JavaBeans, Control Compliance Suit (CCS). DMSI has six applications, deployed into production at Tinker AFB, Hill AFB, and Warner-Robins AFB, five client/servers and one Web Java Security Module.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), Business and Enterprise Systems (BES), Logistics Systems Division (HIA), Maintenance Workflow Product Line (HIM). Depot Maintenance Systems Program Management Office, Wright-Patterson AFB, is conducting market research to identify qualified businesses to provide maintenance/sustainment/development Information Technology (IT) services for Spectrum System Development Architecture (SSDATM) within the Depot Maintenance Systems Integration (DMSI) environment.

Interested sources in responding to this RFI must provide the following information and/or documentation to demonstrate technical capability in the six (6) critical areas below (please indicate whether your company performed as the prime or as a subcontractor). Interested sources shall provide individuals with a specific level of expertise in certain key system areas or disciplines and are knowledgeable about the domain of the system being represented. These professionals shall provide unique and/or in-depth functional and technical knowledge on the system operations.

Parties interested in responding to this RFI should describe your team’s experience and understanding that demonstrates technical capability in the following six (6) critical areas below (please indicate whether your company performed as the prime or as a subcontractor):

1. (CRITICAL) Either partnership with NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI) or have a license agreement with NCI to develop with, use, provide, and support the NCI proprietary SSDATM software package.

2. (CRITICAL) Experience during the past five years performing software maintenance on applications which operate within the Air Force Architectural, Engineering process, Technical Skill sets required:

• Complete understanding of the SSDATM and authority to modify NCI proprietary source code.

• Ability to provide guidance/training of the SSDATM

• Client/Server and Web Development

• NCI SSDATM Development and Sustainment

• Requirements Analysis

• Configuration Control

• Software Analysis and Evaluation

• Design, Development, Test, and Deploy Processes.

• Level 2/3 Help Desk

• Understanding of all six of the DMSI Applications and how each utilizes the SSDATM

• Understanding of the Q302 Depot Maintenance Consolidated Operational Database

(DMCODB)

• Understanding the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) DMSI Environment

• Infrastructure/Technology upgrades

• Multiple Software Baseline management

• Java Enterprise Edition

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE/JDK)

• Java Archive (JAR) File

• JavaBeans

• Web Application Archive (WAR) o EXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) o Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

• Java Script

• Java 8 & 11

• Appeon PowerBuilder 2017 & 2019

• JBoss EAP 7.1x

• NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• Apache Shiro

• PrimeFaces

• Chilkat Software

• PowerGen

• ProDiff

• VMWare

• Chrome

• Oracle Products:

o Oracle DBMS o Client o Database Design o Oracle Virtualbox o SQL Developer o SQL Scripts o Procedural Language(PL) /Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Microsoft Products:

• Windows Operating Systems:

o Windows 10 o MS Office o MS Project o Extensible Markup Language (XML)

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

• HTTP/HTTPS

• Serena PVCS Version managerProducts:

• Apache ANT Java Builder Tool

• Spectrum System Development Architecture (SSDA) Framework

• Information system management Tool (ISMT)

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Air Force Standard Desktop Core Configuration (SDCC)

• Transmission Control protocol (TCP)/Interner Protocol (IP)

3. (CRITICAL) Experience working with Air Force Air Logistics Complex (ALC) Depot Maintenance processes for aircraft and the associated Business Rules.

4. (CRITICAL) Experience and understanding of communications policies and Global

Information Grid (GIG) for executing new application development; DoD and AF

Security Instructions; and DoD Architectural Framework (DoDAF).

5. (CRITICAL) Experience during the past five years, managing and executing tasks for performing computer operations (job monitoring and error handling), various Microsoft Windows operating systems and Windows application server connectivity.

6. (CRITICAL) Experience managing and executing tasks for Integration Level II and III helpdesk support in conjunction with AF and DISA Level I help desk(s).

PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Work is to be performed primarily on-site at WPAFB, Ohio, or at a another site (such as the Contractor’s facility) that has been given prior approval by the Government.

CLEARANCES

Contractor personnel shall be required to have the appropriate level of investigation and security clearance (up to and including SECRET during the performance of duties in support of this contract. All contractor personnel are to have a completed favorable National Agency Check with Written Inquiries (NACI). The contractor personnel shall be required to obtain Common Access Cards (CACs) for the purpose of entering a Government installation and also encryption and physical and digital identification for logical and physical access to Government data. The contractor shall be required to obtain a CAC before start of work. The contractor shall not involve any foreign nationals in work to be performed under this requirement.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) as defined and discussed in FAR 9.5, Organizational and Consultant Conflicts of Interest, is a concern in all acquisitions across the Department of Defense. Early involvement with our industry partners is a key element of the OCI process, and it is critical for the Government to be able to identify any potential OCI issues as early as possible for an acquisition. This would allow ample time to address and evaluate any potential OCI issues, if required, prior to contract award with minimal impact to critical acquisition schedules.

Interested vendors are requested to evaluate your potential OCI issues with regard to this requirement for all systems identified, and the Contractor is encouraged to identify any OCI issues, as stated in FAR 9.5 to the Contracting Officer (CO). This will assist the CO in determining if the contractor will need to submit an OCI Mitigation Plan for any solicitation that might result from this notice.

INFORMATION REQUESTED

Please provide the following business information for your company/institution and for any teaming or joint venture partners in your cover letter:

• Company/Institute Name:

• Address:

• Point of Contact:

• CAGE Code:

• Phone Number:

• E-mail Address:

• Web Page URL:

Interested vendors are requested to provide a capability package; the submittal shall be in ten

(10) pages or less, in Times New Roman 12 font; pages shall be single-spaced with one-inch margins. The page limitation does not include the cover letter. Page size should be 8.5 x 11 inches; foldouts are permitted but will be assessed toward total page count.

Contractors responding to this RFI shall include the following information:

1. A brief history of your team’s experience in providing services to the SSDATM system, or similar information systems regarding the “scope of services” section.

2. Provide any questions or comments concerning the SSDATM scope of services section.

3. Small businesses are encouraged to participate in this Market Research. Joint ventures or teaming arrangements are encouraged.

4. North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code. The NAICS Code determined appropriate for this acquisition is 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services and FAR 52.219-14, and FEDERAL SUPPLY CODE: D399. If your company qualifies as a small business as defined under this NAICS code, please respond to the below additional questions.

• Can your company provide a team composed of a sufficient number of small business subcontractors to perform this contract in an efficient, cost effective manner while meeting contract requirements? Please explain.

• If your company is considering being prime on this effort you are required to perform 51 percent of the work; how would work beyond in-house capabilities be handled?

Based on the above NAICS Code, state whether your company is certified as:

• Small Business (Yes / No)

• Small Disadvantaged Business (Yes / No)

• Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) (Yes / No)

• Economically Disadvantaged WOSB (Yes / No)

• 8(a) Certified (Yes / No)

• HUBZone Certified (Yes / No)

• Veteran Owned Small Business (Yes / No)

• Service Disabled Veteran Small Business (Yes / No)

Note: The Government reserves the right to consider a small business set-aside based upon responses hereto for any subsequent action. Also, all contracting companies must be domestically owned.

Due Date: Responses should be submitted electronically to the Contracting Officer, Mr.

Daniel Holliday, AFMC AFLCMC/HIKA, via email at daniel.holliday.3@us.af.mil, and mailto:daniel.holliday.3@us.af.mil the Contract Specialist, Ms. Lisa Brown, AFMC AFLCMC/HIKA, via email at lisa.brown.2@us.af.mil, by 12:00 PM EST 16 December 2020. The Government will not entertain telephone calls for this RFI; related questions may be emailed to the Contracting Team.

THIS IS AN RFI ONLY. The information provided in this RFI is subject to change and is not binding on the Government. The AF has not made a commitment to procure any of the items discussed, and release of this RFI should not be construed as such a commitment or as authorization to incur cost for which reimbursement would be required or sought. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned.

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY

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