Task_Order_SOW_HAVE_STAR_VII_Sample_3.docx

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HAVE STAR VII

Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)

For the National Air & Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-5648

GSA BPA # Number Statement of Work (SOW) – Task Order Number Date

1.0. REQUIRING AGENCY: NASIC/GXKT

2.0. TITLE: FY15 Machine Translation Operation and Maintenance

3.0. TECHNICAL AREA: Overall BPA SOW paragraph 6.3.6.

4.0. OBJECTIVE/SCOPE: The NASIC Information Exploitation Squadron (NASIC/GXK) is responsible for producing and operating specialized analysis tools for translation of foreign language scientific and technical textual information in support of Open Source and all-source intelligence analysis and production. This effort includes, but is not limited to, enhancement of specialized machine translation applications for the U.S. Air Force, continued upgrades and enhancements to existing machine translation software, and technical support in the operation and use of these analytical tools.

5.0. CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS: The contractor shall provide a program manager to provide total task management and supervise contractor personnel. The program manager shall serve as the primary point of contact to the Government Client Representative (CR) and/or Alternate Client Representative (ACR) for all technical aspects of the required work. No personal services shall be performed.

6.0. SPECIFIC TASKS:

6.1. Project Management – The contractor shall provide on a Firm Fixed Price all labor, facilities, and non-Government Furnished Equipment to successfully complete this task.

6.1.1. The contractor shall provide up-to-date status, individually for each task order with an active period of performance, through monthly Status / Financial Reports. Monthly Status / Financial Reports will be unclassified and include details on the following items for each previous time period: (1) Best up-to-date estimate of hours worked and therefore expected charges, including those of subcontractors; (2) status of the work performed; (3) any problems or constraints encountered that may impact cost or schedule; (4) status of open items from previous reports; (5) any suggested solutions to problems or constraints encountered; (6) a list of contractor or subcontractor personnel changes; (7) proposed initiatives or waivers requiring Government action. (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverable 1)

6.1.2. The contractor will provide up-to-date status, individually for each task order with an active period of performance, through Program Management Reviews (PMRs). The contractor's program manager will be required to present oral program reviews as directed by the NASIC CR. The first program review will be presented at the completion of the first month after contract award, and thereafter as requested, but not less than quarterly. Attendance at the program review will be coordinated with the NASIC CR (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverable 2).

6.1.3. Prepare written documentation on the results of tasking to include verbal and written comments, formal reports, informal memorandums and letters, meeting minutes, and specialized technical reports and papers (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverable 3).

6.1.4. Prepare documents, reports, and studies which pertain to Government selected topics of interest. Prior to the release, the contractor will present these items to the Government appointed experts to ensure content accuracy and that security considerations are properly addressed (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverable 4).

6.1.5. Create and maintain a Project Management Plan on an as directed basis for individual Task Orders. The Project Management Plan will provide the strategy for accomplishing the task with expected milestones to define and track the tasks progress. The Project Management Plan will be completed and certified by the Contractor, the Technical Monitor and the Client Representative within 30 calendar days after award of the task order (Ref: Table 7.2. - Deliverable 6).

6.1.6. Prepare software products and items which pertain to Government selected areas of interest. Prior to the release, the contractor will present these items to the Government appointed experts to ensure functionality and sufficiency, and that security considerations are properly addressed (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverable 7).

6.2. Foreign Language Analytic Software (Ref: Table 7.2. – Deliverables 3, 4, and 7)

6.2.1. Prepare software products and items which pertain to Government selected areas of interest. Prior to the release, the contractor shall present these items to the Government appointed experts to ensure functionality and sufficiency, and that security considerations are properly addressed.

6.2.2. Update, enhance, and provide new version releases of the Arabic-to-English bi-directional machine translation pair, Chinese-to-English bi-directional machine translation pair, Farsi-to-English mono-directional machine translation language pair, Russian-to-English bi-directional machine translation pair, and Urdu-to-English mono-directional machine translation pair currently in operation at NASIC.

6.2.3. The contractor shall provide capability for linguistic abort/crash correction, minor debugging, paradigm declension correction, dictionary modification, correction of synthesis codes, semantic code modification and synthesis spelling error corrections either by contractor generated initiatives or by data provided by NASIC through Dictionary Change Requests (DCR's), email, fax, or telephone input.

6.2.4. The contractor shall enhance specific technical subsets of the lexicon by incorporating expressions and terms from dictionaries, corpus-derived not-found words, or digital dictionaries purchased or acquired by the contractor or the U.S. Government.

6.2.5. The contractor shall enhance specific tools in the lexicon, such as by expanding semantic coverage, consolidating expressions, etc.

6.2.6. The contractor shall expand existing linguistic modules or write new specific lexical or homograph disambiguation routines, or expand the scope of current linguistic coding.

6.2.7. The contractor shall implement document type processing suited to specific text styles or suited to specific dialect variances.

6.2.8. The contractor shall adapt new processing techniques to enhance linguistic performance, including the use of statistical and probabilistic methods, database search, or adaptive learning of linguistic patterns.

6.2.9. The contractor shall automate and improve the quality of dictionary development in general by developing or using quality assurance tools, spell checkers, and diagnostic tools.

6.2.10. The contractor shall improve tools to increase the scope of performance or the ease of use of systems by improved modularity, enhanced documentation, or simplification of coding and logical flow.

6.2.11. Work performed under section 6.2. shall be delivered to the Government in both Windows and Linux (Unix) operating system options.

7.0. DELIVERABLES/SCHEDULE

7.1. DELIVERABLE ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA:

TABLE 7.2. The Contractor shall submit reports and other deliverables in accordance with the requirements set forth in Table 7.2 below.

Management Reviews (PMRs)

Studies

prior to end of Period of Performance 15 days prior to end of Period of Performance

Technical Monitor & CR

prior to end of Period of Performance 15 days prior to end of Period of Performance

Plan (QCP)

days after overall BPA award

and Release of Claims

days after the end of the Task order period of performance

Furnished Equipment

(GFE)

8.0. SERVICE DELIVERY SUMMARY

6.2.2.

The Contractor shall make updates of existing MT systems and lexicons available to Government representatives by CD-ROM or website download access on a quarterly basis beginning not later than 3 calendar months after contract award, and continuing throughout the life of the contract. The Contractor shall conduct a minimum of 2 Government Program Reviews per calendar year with Government representatives beginning not later than 6 calendar months after contract award, and continuing throughout the life of the contract.

Quality Control

6.2.1.

6.2.2.

6.2.9.

The contractor shall perform comparator tests on releases to the Government against a 500 sentence database and 500 sentences randomly selected from the Internet. The comparator database tests and the random Internet tests must show a 7:3 improvement / degradation ratio. If this does not happen the contractor must improve the linguistic and dictionary changes to reach the 7:3 ratio at no expense to the Government. A report on comparator shall be delivered to the Government representative at least 15 days prior to providing releases. Medium is CD-ROM or website download.

9.0. CLIN STRUCTURE

9.1. O&M CLINs

CLIN 0001 Project Management (Firm-Fixed Price) CLIN 0007 Open Source Intelligence Analysis (Firm-Fixed Price)

ADMINISTRATIVE

A.1. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: The period of performance for Task Order Number shall not exceed twelve twelve (12) months from date of award.

A.2. SECURITY LEVEL OF TASKING REQUIREMENT: Work related to these tasks shall be completely at the UNCLASSIFIED level.

A.3. SECURITY CLEARANCES: The contractor's personnel do not require security clearances.

A.4. KEY PERSONNEL: Individuals designated as key personnel will be committed to the project for its duration and cannot be substituted or replaced without the written agreement of the Contracting Officer.

A.5. MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING: The Contractor shall be responsible for selecting personnel who are well qualified to perform the required services, versed in supervising techniques used in their work, and for keeping personnel informed of all improvements, changes, and methods of operation.

A.6. INDIVIDUAL QUALIFICATIONS: The contractor shall submit names, resumes, and security clearance level of each prime and sub-contractor individual proposed to work each delivery order. The personnel must meet any minimum security, experience and educational requirements specified in the Basic Contract and are subject to Government approval. Any exceptions shall be reviewed only on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the Basic Contract by the CR/ACR.

A.7. IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL: All contractor personnel and their subcontractors must identify themselves as Contractors or subcontractors during meetings, telephone conversations, and in electronic messages, or correspondence related to this contract. Further, all Contractor-occupied facilities (on Wright-Patterson AFB, OH or any other Government installations) such as offices, separate rooms, or cubicles must be clearly identified with Contractor supplied signs, name plates or other identification, showing that these are work areas for Contractor or subcontractor personnel.

A.8. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: The technical work under this contract will be accomplished at the contractor's facility.

A.9. TRAVEL REQUIRED: No travel is anticipated being required for this task.

A.10. GOVERNMENT FURNISHED DATA: No Government Furnished Data is anticipated being required for this task.

A.11. TECHNICAL MONITOR(s): Primary: Names Alternate: Names

A.12. GENERAL INFORMATION: It has been determined that this acquisition does not meet the definition of “Essential Contract Service” as defined in DoDI 3020.37 dated 05 Nov 90. This instruction is not applicable to this effort.

A.13. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT): All IT solutions to be implemented at NASIC must conform to and be in compliance with the NASIC Enterprise Architecture as published by the SIMO and approved by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Any deviations from the NASIC IT standards will be addressed through the processes outlined in NASICI 33-108. All Contractors and personnel requiring accounts with elevated system/network privileges must be trained and certified in accordance with DoD 8570.01-M and DFARS 252.239-7001.

A.14. PAYMENT: Refer to 19.0 of basic BPA.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

DESCENDING ORDER OF IMPORTANCE

1. Management and Staffing Plan

- Staffing plan highlighting the number of proposed personnel, their experience, and qualifications.

2. Proposed Cost

- The Offeror shall submit a cost proposal detailing costs by each task and/or subtask, hours, and labor category

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