J8_Work_Assignment_2_GOES-R_v4-TC.pdf

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Work Assignment #2 GOES-R Ground System Maintenance and Sustainment Support

April 22, 2016

1. INTRODUCTION

The Contractor shall work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) to provide support to the GOES-R ground system.

2. WORK ASSIGNMENT TASKS

The Government’s objective is to obtain sound technical and programmatic advice for NOAA, NESDIS and GOES-R management needed to ensure GOES-R mission success.

2.1 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT

The Contractor shall provide support to project management activities including integrated baseline establishment and maintenance, status assessment and reporting of project cost, schedule and technical performance, identification, assessment, and management of project issues and risks, execution and maintenance of budgets and other programmatic and technical planning and execution activities. The Contractor shall provide project control support including budget development and defense, programmatic execution and tracking, and project management preparations for internal and external reporting, reviews, and milestone activities. The Contractor shall assist the Government in procurement activities and source selections as directed including developing acquisition strategy, preparing documentation associated with requests for proposal , evaluation and source selection;

evaluation of contract change proposal materials, and supporting review and approval materials.

The Contractor shall provide project management support by identifying and resolving issues as well as preparing plans, briefings, and documents in the areas of program planning and scheduling and program advocacy for the NOAA/NESDIS Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES R-Series (GOES-R) ground system.

The Contractor shall support system status reports to agency leadership, stakeholders, and the public.

The Contractor shall facilitate meetings, develop management briefings, and prepare status reports.

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2.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT

2.2.1 Maintenance and Sustainment Monitoring - The Contractor shall review maintenance and sustainment Contractors’ plans and progress.

The Contractor shall review and advise the Government as to the sufficiency of deliverables submitted by maintenance and sustainment Contractors.

The Contractor shall also monitor and evaluate the maintenance and sustainment Contractors’ and subcontractors’ integration and test activities.

The Contractor shall review, evaluate, participate in, and make recommendations for lowering risk in GOES-R ground system maintenance and sustainment Contractor operations including, but not limited to the following:

the maintenance and sustainment Contractors’ execution of plans, designs, schedules, cost, processes, control, and deployment of resources (including support equipment and facilities);

the maintenance and sustainment Contractors’ activities such as tests (including configuration item acceptance, qualification and readiness) and test data reviews, and documentation.

The Contractor shall assist the Government in conducting integrated baseline reviews (IBRs) on maintenance and sustainment contracts.

2.2.2 System Engineering - The Contractor shall provide project technical and system engineering support including requirements management, design solution evaluation and trades analyses, interface management, integration and testing, verification and validation, risk management, technical data and configuration management, technical reviews, requirements compliance, software engineering management, mission assurance,, hardware and software sustainment (e.g. COTS updates, obsolescence, system refreshes, etc.), and technical and programmatic oversight.

The Contractor shall provide impact analysis for project, and Contractor-derived requirements change requests, deviations, and waivers.

2.2.3 Enterprise Architecture - The Contractor shall assist in the evolution of the GOES-R ground system into the NESDIS Enterprise Architecture (EA). The Contractor shall ensure consistency with the NOAA Technical Reference Model and Standards.

The Contractor shall assist the project and Office of the NESDIS Chief Information Officer (OCIO) in developing recommendations for policies, principles, and procedures to implement the current and future NESDIS EA.

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The Contractor shall assist NESDIS by identifying stakeholder needs and integration gaps in the planning and development of the EA.

2.2.4 IT Security - The Contractor shall provide technical support to the design, implementation, and evaluation of all phases of mission security and information assurance solutions for the GOES-R ground system.

The Contractor shall provide planning and implementation support of NIST FIPS and NOAA IT security policies and requirements. The Contractor’s support also includes planning and execution of Assessment and Authorization work, including activities to achieve and maintain Authority to Operate.

The Contractor shall conduct security assessments, develop system requirements, and prepare security plans, risk assessments, and security evaluation reports based on NIST, Department of Commerce, NASA, and Department of Homeland Security guidance for critical information technology (IT) systems.

The Contractor shall provide support for developing standards, guidance, and policies to be implemented in the GOES-R ground system.

The Contractor shall provide support for oversight of communications security (COMSEC) requirements and implementation.

The Contractor shall support the continuous monitoring of all information security, including activities associated with acquisition and development efforts.

2.2.5 Transition and Handover - The Contractor shall provide operations transition support for the transition of operations from legacy systems to GOES- R.

The Contractor shall prepare artifacts and materials to support multiple system readiness reviews leading to launch and post-launch acceptance and handover reviews.

The Contractor shall provide operations and sustainment support following the transition and handover of the GOES-R series satellites to the routine operations phase.

2.2.6 Radiofrequency Support - The Contractor shall provide assistance in such areas as spacecraft-to-ground communications, including antennas and radio frequency (RF) analysis. The Contractor shall support the planning, procedures, and execution of RF Compatibility Testing.

The Contractor shall conduct RF link analyses and RF interference analyses, assist in RF National Telecommunications and Information Administration

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(NTIA) and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) filings, perform RF tradeoff analyses, and perform miscellaneous RF studies.

The Contractor shall provide space systems engineering radio frequency (RF) research and development support for integrating new technologies into future NOAA space systems and cost-effective user receive systems.

3. DELIVERABLES

The Contractor shall provide deliverables specified by the Government Work Assignment Points of Contact (POCs). Deliverables may include, but are not limited to, reports, analyses, studies, and meeting minutes.

The Contractor shall provide monthly progress reports that summarize progress on these activities and identify the delivered and near-term deliverable items, based on guidance from the technical point-of-contact and in accordance with the contract.

The Contractor shall provide weekly progress reports that identify technical issues, problems, successes, changes in direction, or new activities that have been assigned. The Contractor shall meet with the individual task leaders, either formally or informally, to discuss the status of the work effort, task issues, concerns, and other information associated with the task.

The Contractor shall provide deliverables in accordance with the schedule in the Work Assignment. In accordance with Section G12 of the Contract (Deliverables), the Contractor shall provide the following deliverables as required in Table 1.

Table 1 Progress Report Electronic copy to the

COR, CO, and the Work Assignment Point of Contact (POC)

See Contract

Task Management Plan Original and 1 copy to Work Assignment POC;

electronic copies to CO and COR

Within 10 days of receipt of Work Assignment

Nondisclosure Agreement

Original to CO; copy to

COR

See Contract

Security Forms Originals to Work Assignment POC;

copies to COR

See Contract

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Technical Reports and Special Reports: The Contractor shall furnish the Government technical reports as needed in all task areas. In addition to these specific deliverables, the Contractor shall provide deliverables specified by the GSP and NESDIS technical staff leads that are responsible for this task. Deliverables may include, but are not limited to, reports, analyses, presentations, studies, and meeting minutes.

3.1 Progress Reports: The Contractor shall provide monthly progress reports that summarize progress on activities and identify the delivered and near-term deliverable items. Reports and deliverables shall be based on guidance from the technical Point of Contact and in accordance with the contract to include task item progress, problems, and projected work during the next reporting period. The Contractor shall provide weekly progress reports that identify technical issues, problems, successes, changes in direction, or new activities that have been assigned to the Contractor. The Contractor shall meet with the individual task leaders, either formally or informally, to discuss the status of the Contractor’s work effort, task issues, concerns, and other information associated with the task.

Quality Assurance: The Contractor shall provide project management to monitor overall task activities and major deliverables to ensure their quality, timeliness, and pertinence to the NESDIS objectives. Management review of task activities shall occur, as required, to ensure that the Government priorities, quality and timeliness of the products meet the Government’s needs.

Management review of major deliverables shall be performed sufficiently in advance of delivery to allow time for any needed revisions and to ensure that products are consistently of high quality.

4. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The Period of Performance for this Work Assignment shall be one base period with four option periods as follows.

Transition Period July 1, 2016 – September 7, 2016 Base Period (full performance) September 8, 2016 – June 30, 2017 Option Period One July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018 Option Period Two July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019 Option Period Three July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020 Option Period Four July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021

5. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

The services to be provided shall be performed at NOAA facilities, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD and at 1335 East West Highway, SSMC (Buildings 1, 2, and 3), Silver Spring MD 20910. There will be ______ desk spaces made available on-site for the Contractor’s use.

Requests for entering into a telework arrangement must be coordinated with the contracted individual’s supervisor and submitted on the approved Telecommuting Agreement Form, a copy of which is available from the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The COR is responsible for reviewing, approving, and tracking all requests for telework, and making them available to the Contracting Officer if so requested.

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6. LEVEL OF EFFORT - COST-PLUS-FIXED-FEE TERM TYPE ORDER

The Contractor shall make its own independent staffing requirements assessment.

7. SKILL REQUIREMENT

The assigned Contractor employees must know and understand all Federal laws, requirements, guidelines, mandates, etc. that are related to the tasks and requirements in this Work Assignment.

8. TRAVEL

Travel is expected to the vendor’s primary facility in Melbourne, FL as well as the three operational locations (Suitland, MD, Wallops, VA, and Fairmont, WV) is anticipated.. The Contractor shall also provide individual trip reports for travel.

9. WORK ASSIGNMENT POINT OF CONTACT (POC)

Work Assignment POC: To be Determined Email:

Phone:

10. ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

To fulfill this statement of objectives, the Contractor may be required to develop technical and acquisition documents that contain Sensitive Procurement Information. Such effort may give rise to an organizational conflict of interest that could limit the Contractor's eligibility to propose on future solicitations issued by the Government that are related to this statement of objectives. The Contractor may need to prepare a mitigation plan to eliminate or mitigate organizational conflicts of interest.

Contractor employees performing on this Work Assignment will be required to sign a Non- Disclosure Agreement.

11. PERSONNEL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS

In conducting certain of these subtasks, the Contractor shall be provided access to sensitive but unclassified information dealing with known threats to NESDIS facilities, equipment, software, missions, and other security-related matters. The Contractor staff members required to handle this information shall obtain the necessary clearances and familiarity with Government-approved procedures for handling, storing, and generating sensitive information and shall treat all such information provided for the conduct of these subtasks accordingly.