NSW Industry Day Brief.pdf

UNCLASSIFIED

NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE

COMMAND

Creating Digital Advantage Kristen Lawrence

Contracting Officer, N01C 5 December 2024

Overall Brief Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Agenda

Objective and Intent

Overview of the Scope of Work

Current Acquisition Strategy

Government Assumptions and Current Concerns

Open Forum

*This presentation is being recorded for Government purposes.

Objective and Intent

• Allow for meaningful discussions between NSW and industry about our current capabilities, challenges, priorities, and current requirement.

• Assess the market to determine if this NSW requirement can be set-aside and have successful performance.

• Allow opportunities for potential vendors to collaborate.

Executive Summary

• BLUF: The main objective of this contract is to leverage innovative digital technologies to create competitive advantage by enhancing NSW capabilities in data driven decision making, improving business performance and service delivery, managing knowledge systems access and content management, and creating an agile learning organization to support evolving NSWC missions and Commander’s priorities.

• The scope of the required services includes but are not limited to: (a) Development and implementation of the NSW Digital Strategy; (b) Modernization of NSW legacy and custom software systems (c) Implementation of NSW cloud services and solutions; (d) Data engineering, analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML); (e) Access and content management of structured and unstructured information; (f) Design and improvement of NSW User Experiences (UX); and (g) Management of our learning, training, and organizational change management.

Where we are in the Process

Current Acquisition Strategy Contract Type: Commercial Single Award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite

Quantity (IDIQ)

All task orders will be firm fixed price with well-defined requirements and outcomes.

Estimated Value: $75M Ceiling with 5 year ordering period

In December, NSW will finalize market research based on capability statements received and determine if the Government will set-aside the requirement.

Issue Request for Proposal in Mid- March 2025

Award IDIQ – September 2025

ADDITIONAL Notes:

This is considered a new requirement and there is not a current incumbent

Set-aside considerations- Unknown at this time, will depend on the capabilities presented during market research

Potential Evaluation Criteria Technical Approach- to include a staffing plan and task order management plan.

Technical approach to a sample task order

Corporate Experience- provide examples of similar scopes of work that the vendor has worked on and would indicate that the vendor has the experience to run multiple concurrent task orders.

Evaluation of Offeror’s Total Compensation Plan IAW FAR 52.222-46

Past Performance

Small Business Participation (depending on set-aside consideration)

Government Assumptions

Anticipate having 6-7 task orders running concurrently at any given time.

Task order can be at multiple CONUS locations.

Anticipate needing up to 70 FTEs that are cleared at Secret or TS level

Vendor will be required to have a TS FCL and all its subcontractor will be required to hold the same FCL

Majority of the work will take place in the San Diego / Coronado region and majority of contractors will be on-site performing the work.

If set-aside to a small business, the small will be required to do 51% of the scope of work.

Awardee will have the ability to bring in Subject Matter Experts on an as needed basis.

Historic Concerns

• Talent Management – hiring and retaining quality staff.

• Agile Delivery – speed to market on delivering products and services.

• Retention of current and future corporate knowledge.

• Management – ensuring work efforts are coordinated and focused.

Historic Vignettes

Navy Leader Assessment Program (NLAP)

Urinalysis Program Coordinator (UPC) and Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) Testing Dashboards

NSW Training and Readiness Management System

Knowledge Management (KM)

Data as a Service (DaaS)

Learning Management System (LMS)

Open Forum