ICCT PTP Carrier SOW_DRAFT3.1.pdf

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Statement of Work for

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Continuity Programs (ONCP)

Continuity Communications Division (CCD)

Integrated Continuity Communications Transport (ICCT) Point-to-Point Carrier Project

April 2nd, 2024

PREPARED BY:

Federal Emergency Management Agency Office of National Continuity Programs Continuity Communications Division

500 C street, SW Washington, DC 20419

1. PROJECT TITLE:

Integrated Continuity Communications Transport (ICCT) Point-to-Point Carrier Project.

2. BACKGROUND:

Pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended (6 United States Code (U.S.C.)

314(a)(15)); Executive Order 12656, Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities;

Presidential Policy Directive-40 (PPD-40), National Continuity Policy; Office of Science and Technology Policy/Office of Management and Budget Directive 16-1 (OSTP/OMB D-16-1), Minimum Requirements for Federal Executive Branch Continuity Capabilities; and DHS Directive 008-03, Continuity Policy and Programs, FEMA, on behalf of the President and Secretary of Homeland Security, coordinates the implementation, execution, and assessment of continuity operations and activities among departments and agencies of the Federal Executive Branch and supports these responsibilities through various communications capabilities as required by PPD-40 and OSTP/OMB D-16-1.

PPD-40 and OSTP/OMB D-16-1, controlled policy documents, both describe unclassified and classified communication requirements. As such, federal departments and agencies are required to meet the criteria detailed in those policies, depending on the tier category assigned to the department or agency. FEMA, as a Category I (the highest) agency, requires robust communications capabilities across the Primary, Alternate, Contingency, and Emergency (PACE) model spectrum. These communications provide resilient, diverse methods of communicating before, during, and after all-hazards conditions.

To improve continuity communications resilience, mitigate denial of service attacks, provide physically diverse circuit pathways, safeguard against public network saturation, and achieve D-16-1 and Federal Mission Resilience Strategy (FMRS) compliance, FEMA’s Office of National Continuity Programs (ONCP) has developed the Integrated Continuity Communications Transport (ICCT): a transport solution utilizing a diverse collection of government leased and government owned data networks designed to provide physically redundant robust communications to designated facilities.

ICCT contracts fall within the Office of National Continuity Approved Programs and, thereby, qualifies to be supported using Defense Priority & Allocation Systems (DPAS) rated orders.

As such, the contract will follow procurement procedures for a rated acquisition, to include adherence to provisions of the DPAS regulation, including 15 CFR 700.13 (Elements of a Rated Order) and 700.15 (Extension of Priority Ratings).

3. SCOPE:

The Contractor will provide engineering support, implementation, integration, and maintenance support for communications equipment to ensure operational readiness and availability of nine (9) 10-Gigabits per second (Gbps) network circuits connecting the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center to remote FEMA/DHS locations. These circuits will be physically separated from existing primary circuit paths in/out of Z locations. These circuits will be logically separated from public routing and the Internet.

The Contractor will install point-to-point carrier circuits with Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) features activated. The Contractor will be responsible for engineering the entire length of the circuit path and will be required to employ subcontractors as needed to cover last-mile circuit segments. Prior to activation, the COR must accept all plans, to include, but not limited to, schedule, capacity, quality, and media type.

4. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS:

• PPD-40

• OSTP/OMB D-16-1

• ICCT CONOP

• ICCT APB

5. SPECIFIC TASKS:

• Provide point-to-point leased line circuit services with TSP to the following locations:

A Location:

1. 19844 Blue Ridge Mountain Rd.

Bluemont VA 20135

Z Locations:

1. 4420 Buckeystown Pike Frederick, MD 21704

2. 200 228th St SW, Bothell, WA 98021

• Provide a transport architecture comprised of the following: Optical Transport Network (OTN), Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), or Carrier Ethernet/Ethernet Virtual Circuit.

• Provide, construct, or utilize last-mile connections to facilities that are physically separate from the primary service provision pathways to meet the following characteristics:

- Ingress/Egress pathway must have at least 3 meters of physical separation from existing primary circuit pathway.

- Point to point circuit must be homed in a different Central/Branch office than the primary service provider.

- Point to point circuit must have a routed pathway that differs from the primary service provider.

• Provide redundant path for each point-to-point circuit.

• Guarantee availability of 99.95% with no credible single point of failure.

• Provide round trip latency with a threshold of 100 milliseconds and an objective of 30 milliseconds.

• Provide customer hand-off in single mode LC media type at A and Z locations.

• Provide geographic, and logical circuit diagrams outlining primary and redundant path routes.

• Provide detailed site diagrams of transport equipment locations to include floor plan, room numbers, rack numbers, rack slots, port numbers, media routes, and power supply information.

6. DELIVERABLES AND DELIVERY SCHEDULE:

• Exact schedule is to be determined based upon site engineering surveys, one-time installation projects, and fiber builds.

• First delivery will be within 90 days of award.

7. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

• All hardware must be procured from trusted vendors only in accordance with equipment and services covered by Section 2 of The Secure Networks Act as listed with the Federal Communications Commission. List of Equipment and Services Covered By Section 2 of The Secure Networks Act | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov)

8. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE:

• See designated sites under paragraph 5.

9. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE:

• Base year

• Option years 1-3 (for additional sites beyond the two locations identified above)

10. SECURITY:

• The Contractor will use suitably cleared personnel. Any on-site contract staff, and any sub-contract staff, must be willing to submit personally identifiable information for purposes of a security background investigation strictly for purposes of facility entrance authorization.

Fiscal Year Z Location 2025 Frederick, MD 2026 Bothell, WA https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist#documents https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist#documents