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Attached to: Requirements Management System (RMS) and Logistics Management Data Bank (LMDB) Maintenance and Sustainment
Solicitation number: FA8770-16-R-0002
Issued by: Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base

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Sources Sought Synopsis (SSS) Requirements Management System (RMS) and Logistics Management Data Bank (LMDB) Maintenance and Sustainment

1.0 SYNOPSIS

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Logistics Readiness Branch (HIAR) is conducting market research for a competitive follow-on 8(a) small business effort for a single contract vehicle to encompass the sustainment, modification, and support efforts for the Requirements Management System (RMS) Suite and Logistics Management Data Bank (LMDB) Programs. This is a sources sought synopsis and is issued for informational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation.

The purpose of this sources sought is to determine small business capability as a prime contractor and whether the requirement should be “set aside,” as well as to determine general industry capability and interest. This requirement is currently in the 8(a) Business Development Program. Small businesses in the 8(a) program under NAICS 541511 who are eligible and capable of performing the requirement are encouraged to respond. Please identify size and socio-economic status and provide any other information the Air Force (AF) should consider in reviewing the SSS submission. The estimated period of performance for this acquisition will be 1 base year plus 4 option years, beginning approximately 15 May 2016. Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) contractors will be part of the assessment team for responses to this request and potentially any subsequent solicitation.

This is NOT a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a Request to Quotation (RFQ), but instead is a market research tool to determine the availability, capability, and adequacy of potential sources prior to issuing the Request for Proposal. This is a sources sought synopsis. There is no solicitation available at this time. Requests for a solicitation will not receive a response nor any cost reimbursements associated with submission of the information. The government does not reimburse respondents for any costs associated with submission or the information being requested or reimburse expenses incurred to the interested parties for responses to this sources sought synopsis. Responses to this SSS will not be returned.

The Small Business Association (SBA) uses the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes to establish size standards on an industry-by-industry basis. The NAICS code for the RMS and LMDB Services is 541511 - (Custom Computer Programming Services) under the Professional/Scientific & Technical Services title. The size standard for this code is $27.5 million dollars. A size standard is the largest that a concern can be and still qualify as a small business for Federal Government programs. For the most part, size standards are the average annual receipts or the average employment of a firm. How to calculate average annual receipts and average employment of a firm can be found in 13 CFR § 121.104 and 13 CFR § 121.106, respectively.

2.0 OVERVIEW OF EFFORT

The Requirements Management System (RMS) and Logistics Management Data Bank (LMDB) Program Management Offices (PMOs), AFLCMC/HIAR, at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH is seeking sources to provide maintenance and sustainment of the RMS and LDMB programs which includes the following:

RMS Suite:

· D200 Requirements Management System (RMS)

· D040 War Reserve Materiel Lists/Requirements and Spares Support Lists (RSSL)

· D040 Weapon System Support Program (WSSP)

· D072 Other War Reserve Material Requirements (OWRMR)

· DD1000

LMDB:

· D075 Logistics Management Data Bank (LMDB) (A description of the systems and associated subsystems is at Attachment 1)

3.0 PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Work is currently performed at the Government’s facility, located at Wright Patterson AFB. The expectation is that the work sought would be performed at the Government's facility; however there is the potential for this work to be performed at a contractor facility in the future.

4.0 CLEARANCES

Contractor personnel shall be required to have the appropriate level of investigation and security clearance in compliance with PERSONNEL SECURITY PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (AFMAN 31-501) and CYBERSECURITY WORKFORCE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AFMAN 33-285) during the performance of duties in support of this order. All non-management contractors shall be considered to be in a personnel position designated as IT-II with System Administrators designated as IT-I. The Contractor shall comply with the requirements of categories IT-I and IT-II, formerly known as Automated Data Processing (ADP-I and ADP-II) as defined in DoDD 5200.2-R (chapter 3 and Appendix 10), AFI 31-501 (A22.4 and A22.5, Tables A22.2 and A22.3) and per SAF/AAP Memo, 28 Mar 08 (Compliance with HSPD-12). Please note that IT-I shall require a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI). Positions designated IT-I shall be those with system administration privileges such as Database Administrators, Systems Administrators, and Computer Operators. IT-II positions shall require a NACLC investigation. The investigation for this access is processed by the government. Personnel are required to have the appropriate cybersecurity certifications prior to the start of contractual duties IAW AFMAN 33-285, Paragraph 2.20 and DoD 8570.01-M, Paragraph C2.3.9. All non-management contractors shall be considered to in at least an AIT-I position, relevant certifications are listed at http://iase.disa.mil/iawip/Pages/iabaseline.aspx.

The contractor personnel shall be required to obtain Common Access Cards (CACs) for the purpose of encryption and physical & digital identification for logical and physical access to government information. The Contractor shall have the ability for contractor personnel that are required access to operational Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) facilities, operational Air Force data systems, and networks.

For contractor personnel who require access to DoD, DISA, or Air Force computing equipment or networks, the Contractor shall have the employee, prime or subcontracted, sign and submit a System Authorization Access Report (SAAR), DD Form 2875.

5.0 INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESPONSE

THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS. THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. ANY REQUEST FOR A SOLICITATION WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE. This Sources Sought Synopsis is in support of market research being conducted by the Air Force to identify responsible and capable potential sources. Contractors responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis shall submit the following information to:

Ms. Patrice Richardson-Scott, e-mail: patrice.richardson-scott@us.af.mil, by 3:00 PM (EDST) on Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Late responses will not be reviewed.

This Sources Sought Synopsis requests Capability Statements from contractors with demonstrated ability to provide the following:

The contractor must document knowledge and experience within the last 3 years that demonstrates the contractor has maintained (as the primary maintainer/developer), and has the ability to maintain, a system of over 1 million lines of code.

The contractor must demonstrate the ability to have a fully functional staff, including the necessary clearance and training certification requirements, in place within 30 days of contract award. Anticipated contract award is 15 May 2016.

The contractor must demonstrate the ability to produce a full staff with knowledge and knowledge and experience in CICS, COBOL, Assembler, CA-DATACOM DB, TSO, CA-ROSCOE, Control-M, File Transfer Protocol, CA-IDEAL, IBM JCL, CA-METACOBOL, ASG-Life Cycle Manager (LCM), Oracle Objects, Oracle RDBMS (including programming and administration), Oracle Application Servers (including setup and clustering), Oracle WebLogic, SQL, JAVA, JDEV (including setup), QUICKJOB, XML, HTML, SQL Plus, UNIX (including shell scripting and administration), and WS_FTP Pro (including SSH). In addition, the Contractor must demonstrate knowledge and knowledge and experience with networking and the 3-tier web application model (including setup). Finally, the Contractor will need CA VISION: Flashpoint knowledge and experience to maintain the GUI screens, and Visual Basic knowledge and experience to maintain a prototype that is used to experiment with calculations for a mathematical model. See Appendix 1 for a more complete description of these modules and subsystems.

The contractor must demonstrate that they have the business acumen to maintain the RMS and LMDB Programs and they are certified at CMMI Level II or higher.

The contractor must demonstrate they have knowledge and experience maintaining multiple interfaces across multiple Department of Defense organizations. The RMS and LMDB Programs have over 250 interfaces with 25 legacy systems. In addition, the RMS and LMDB PMOs are anticipating workload associated with migration/subsumption by Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) initiatives, and/or migration of systems to AFLCMC Common Computing Environment (CCE) cloud computing based environments. See Appendix 2 for a synopsis of the CCE.

The contractor must document knowledge and experience within the last 3 years demonstrating the contractor has maintained a Mission-Critical 24/7 system. The contractor must demonstrate they have the ability to be available to maintain a Mission-Critical 24/7 system within 30 days of contract award.

The contractor must document experience and knowledge in performance of the capabilities described above for RMS and LMDB programs at WPAFB, by identifying the customers of, and describing similar efforts performed in the last 3 years.

Interested parties shall submit a capabilities package, with a cover letter, that is brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrates knowledge and experience and ability to meet the stated requirements with adequate staffing of qualified personnel. The capabilities package shall clearly present evidence the interested party is fully capable of providing the required service and as such may contain any information that the interested party feels relevant the contractor’s submittal shall be in 7 pages or less in Times New Roman 12 font, with one-inch margins (MS Word document). The page limitation does not include the cover letter. Contractors responding to this Sources Sought Synopsis shall include the following information:

a. Company name, address, CAGE code, DUNS number, and web-site providing additional information about the prospective business.

b. Company’s business size, status (i.e., small business, 8(a), HUB Zone, women-owned, etc.), 8(a) status and graduation date.

c. Company Point of Contact (POC) for additional business information.

d. Current customers’ POC, addresses, phone numbers, service(s) provided.

e. Company brochures will not be considered adequate responses, nor should they be submitted as part of the capabilities package.

Each prospective company shall identify their intent to submit a proposal as a prime contractor, and/or the anticipated level of subcontracting / teaming, in the event the Government issues an RFP for the identified services. If the prospective company does not anticipate submitting a proposal as a prime contractor, please indicate whether the prospective company respondent is considering pursuing a relationship with a prime contractor. Prime contractors shall demonstrate 51% of the capability support: with any subcontractor teaming arrangement providing no more than 49% of the capability support.

In accordance with AFFARS 5352.201-9101, an Ombudsman has been appointed to address concerns from interested firms during this phase of acquisition. The Ombudsman does not diminish the authority of the Program Manager or Contracting Officer, but communicates contractor concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations to the appropriate Government official. The Ombudsman should be contacted only with issues or problems that have been brought previously to the attention of the Program Manager and/or Contracting Officer and could not be resolved satisfactorily at that level. When approached with an issue or query the Ombudsman independently assesses the situation and provides a response or initiates a resolution, and when requested, will maintain confidentiality as to the source of the inquiry. Contact information for the AFLCMC BES Wright Patterson Ombudsman is as follows:

Name: Ms. Jill Willingham-Allen E-mail: Jill.Willinghamallen@us.af.mil

AFLCMC/AQP

COMM: 937-255-5472

DSN: 785-5472

Address:

Telephone #:	937-255-5472
E-Mail:	Jill.WillinghamAllen@us.af.mil

Any information submitted by respondents to this synopsis is strictly voluntary. This synopsis does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) nor does its issuance restrict the Government as to its ultimate acquisition approach. The Government will neither award a contract solely on the basis of this notice, nor pay for any information that is submitted by respondents to this Sources Sought Synopsis. All information received in response to this SSS marked “Proprietary” will be handled accordingly. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this notice are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Responders are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this SSS. Responses to the SSS will not be returned.

6.0 GOVERNMENT CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions concerning this requirement should be electronically sent to both the Contract Specialist Ms. Patrice Scott, e-mail: patrice.richardson-scott@us.af.mil (937) 257-7714 and to the Contracting Officer Mr. Richard Dickerson, richard.dickerson.2@us.af.mil (937) 257-4846.

7.0 ATTACHMENTS

Appendix 1: RMS AND LMDB DESCRITIONS Appendix 2: AFLCMC COMMON COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT (CCE) SYNOPSYS

RMS and LMDB Descriptions

DSD/Name

Description

Platform

Operating System

DataBase

LANGUAGE (s)

/COTS PRODUCTS

D200A Secondary Item Requirement System (SIRS))

SLOC ~ 1.1M

COBOL	94%
JCL	6%
	Maintains visibility on all recoverable and consumable spares while computing buy and repair requirements on a quarterly cycle. Examples of recoverable items include avionics subsystems, ground communications equipment, and airborne electrical power generators. Included within this subsystem is the ability to perform on-line item recomputations and batch group recomputations. Approximately 200,000 items are processed by this subsystem. Processes performed include maintaining past usage data, forecasting trends and applying programs and assets in computing future buy and repair requirements.
	IBM Mainframe
	MVS z/OS
	CA-Datacom
	Customer Information Control System (CICS), Common-Oriented Business Operating Language (COBOL), TSO, Control-M,File Transfer Protocol(FTP),CA-ROSCOE, IBM JCL, CA-METACOBOL, QUICKJOB