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SOURCES SOUGHT ANNOUNCEMENT
Government Services Acquisition (GSA) is seeking sources that can provide Standardization of a Service Development and Delivery Process for Logistics Capability Initiatives for the US Air Force HAF/A4TP at Wright Patterson AFB, OH.
CONTRACTING OFFICE ADDRESS
John Akin
GSA – FAS
1710 Corporate Crossing Rd, Ste 3 O’Fallon, IL 62269 John.akin@gsa.gov
INTRODUCTION:
This is a SOURCES SOUGHT TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION to determine the availability and technical capability of 8a companies to provide the required products and/or services.
On behalf of the US Air Force (USAF) HAF/A4TP, GSA is seeking information for potential sources of technical support, business operations support, organizational support, requirements management, analysis, data capture, issue identification and resolution, and facilitation for the SDDP effort. This support will require the skills and resources necessary to support the A4PT environment. This includes assisting with development and maintaining all SDDP steps 1-3 required artifacts.
DISCLAMER:
THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR A PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONSTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT RECOMPNSE ANY CONTRACTORS FOR THEIR RESPONSE. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.
SOURCES SOUGHT:
The anticipated North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541614: Process, Physical Distribution and Logistic Consulting Services. The size standard for this acquisition is $15 million. This Sources Sought is only requesting responses from 8a companies.
In order to make a determination for an 8a set-aside, two or more qualified and capable businesses must submit responses that demonstrate their qualifications. Responses must demonstrate the company’s ability to perform in accordance with the Limitations on Subcontracting clause (FAR 52.219-14).
REQUIRED CAPABILITIES:
| 1. | Objective |
| 1.1.1. | The Air Force is re-engineering and transforming its logistics businesses processes, systems, and organizational structures as part of the broader Department of Defense (DoD) effort to enhance Warfighter support. The Air Force selected AF/A4PT to facilitate this effort by implementing a standardized Service Development and Delivery Process (SDDP) for selected Logistics Capability Initiatives (LCI) to deliver transformed business processes. |
| 1.1.2. | This is an on-going effort to re-engineer and transform the U.S. Air Force logistics and business processes, systems, and organizational structures in compliance with Air Force Manual 10-606 Service Development and Delivery Process (SDDP). The SDDP details the processes and procedures by which Information Technology (IT) capabilities that support Air Force mission and business processes are identified, defined, developed and delivered. The objective of SDDP is to maximize information technology capabilities while minimizing the investment in redundant and inefficient IT applications. |
| 1.1.3. | The purpose of this effort is to obtain contractor support to provide all necessary technical support, business operations support, organizational support, requirements management, analysis, data capture, issue identification and resolution, and facilitation for the SDDP effort. This support will require the skills and resources necessary to support the A4PT environment. This includes assisting with development and maintaining all SDDP steps 1-3 required artifacts. |
| 2. | Scope |
| 2.1.1. | The contractor shall provide support for the Service Development and Delivery Processes (SDDP), Air Force business process re-engineering, business process architecture and contextual modeling, modeling and simulation scenarios, data capture and analysis, requirements management, business case analysis, quality assurance, course of action analysis, logistics analysis, and business operations. |
| 2.1.2. | The contractor shall provide support in leading and/ or facilitating Capability Initiative workshops, business case analysis and developing all required SDDP and acquisition artifacts. |
| 2.1.3. | Due to constantly changing Air Force needs and priorities and unforeseeable future funding levels, there may be substantial changes in the man-hours of personnel required. Manpower changes may also be dictated by the requirement for timely completion of critical projects. The government will provide the contractor with as much advance notice of changing work requirements as possible. |
| 3. | Specific Requirements |
| 3.1.1. | The Contractor shall schedule and coordinate a Project Kick-Off Meeting within five (5) business days after the award of the contract at a location approved by the Government. The meeting will provide an introduction between the contractor personnel and Government personnel who will be involved with the contract. The meeting will provide the opportunity to discuss technical, management, contractual, and security issues, as well as, travel authorization and reporting procedures. At a minimum, the attendees shall include key contractor personnel, representatives from A4PT, other key Government personnel, and the contract administrator procured on contract number XXX COR. The Contractor shall provide a Kick-off agenda for presentation that will include the following: |
| Introduction of team members and capabilities | |
| Overview of contract scope, schedule, and deliverables | |
| Security requirements/access procedures | |
| Invoice procedures | |
| Points of contact | |
| Other logistics issues | |
| Additional issues or concerns | |
| 3.1.2. | The Contractor shall provide a draft copy of the agenda for review and approval by the contract administrator procured on contract number XXX COR and the A4PT TPOC prior to finalizing. The Government will provide the contractor with the number of participants for the kick off meeting and the contractor shall provide sufficient copies of the presentation for all present. |
| 3.1.3. | Under this contract/Performance Work Statement, the contractor shall employ a staff with sufficient experience and expertise to perform each of the tasks in the PWS. (Reference “Staff Employee Requirement” in Section 7 of this PWS.) |
| 3.1.4. | The Contractor shall furnish or provide all personnel, personnel management and supervision, all related internal supporting business functions (including background and “overhead” personnel) to perform the full range of technical services and business operations required by this contract/Performance Work Statement. |
| 3.1.5. | During the course of this contract/Performance Work Statement, the Government may make additional Government Furnished Items (GFIs) -- materials, equipment, and facilities -- available upon receipt of a written request from the Contractor to the Air Force Technical Representative. These GFIs, if provided, would be in addition to those initially set forth in Section 9. |
| 3.1.6. | The contractor shall provide fully trained personnel. |
| 3.1.7. | Contractor employees shall perform work as specified in this performance work statement as directed by the contractor’s designated project manager, who shall have full responsibility for the assignment and monitoring of contractor employee activities. All work shall be performed within the scope of this performance work statement and the Government will not ask or require the contractor to perform work that is outside of the scope of this performance work statement. |
| 3.1.8. | The customer and recipient of all work performed under this contract order is HAF/A4PT at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, Ohio. |
| 3.1.9. | Contractor performance shall be monitored by Government representatives in accordance with the Contractor’s Quality Control Plan (QCP) and the Government’s Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)(see Section 6, below). |
| 3.1.10. | The contractor shall provide technical expertise for functional requirements management. This includes collecting all process model requirements, performing Quality Assurance on all functional requirements, converting into smart format, inputting into AF requirements management tool of choice, managing and tracking all requirements through the SDDP and/or acquisition process, development of community of interest (COI) and contextual models as well as and ensuring all customer requirements are met and/or adjudicated. If there are any questions on requirements from the acquisition community, the contractor will work with the customer to get issues resolved |
| 4. | Tasks |
| 4.1. | Data Analysis and Process Modeling |
| 4.1.1. | The contractor shall work with A4PT to ensure that all “AS IS” and “TO BE” process models and data (inputs, outputs and process block) are input and maintained in the AF and/or AFMC System Architect (SA) tool and/or another architecture tool. The contractor is required to perform work necessary to map the models to the Logistics Business Enterprise Architecture (LogBEA) and follow LogBEA standards. Contractor shall work contextual model hand offs with the acquisition community. This requires expertise and knowledge of SA modeling and the AFMC data architecture tool set. |
| 4.1.2. | Contractor personnel shall develop/Maintain/Complete DRM/COI templates for SDDP Step 3 for all LCIs and also capture and ensure compliance with DoD and AF standards for Data Management. |
| 4.1.3. | The contractor personnel are expected to identify and document information flows in each process, tie the information flows to information assets, identify external information (GETS) and internal information (PUTS) and associated business/validation rules. For all the SDDP steps (1-3) the contractor shall provide the initial list of information flows, information assets, GETS, PUTS and associated business/validation rules for the DRM development. |
| 4.1.4. | The contractor will capture and gather information at each step of SDDP for DRM development. They must ensure that the data quality is followed, perform the DRM documentation and support the COA team with development of data related evaluation criteria. |
| 4.1.5. | Contractor shall provide acquisition expertise with regards to implementation of AF LCI’s SDDP course of action. Contractor shall also ensure that all appropriate acquisition documentation and artifacts are developed to coincide with the SDDP process for a material solution including, but not limited to, AOA and AIP Part I and II support. All artifacts will be approved through appropriate AF governance. |
| 4.2. | Functional Requirements Management |
| 4.2.1. | The contractor shall assist AF/A4PT in facilitating development and management of all requirements for the Logistics Capability Initiatives (LCI). |
| 4.2.2. | Contractor is expected to work with the Data Capture resources to load the requirements into DOORs or other tool required by the AF. |
| 4.3. | Capability Workshop Support |
| 4.3.1. | The contractor shall support SDDP workshops by providing facilitation, moderating, and business process reengineering support. The contractor shall provide resources that have experience running workshops. The contractor shall provide resources with experience in helping groups achieve their objectives without taking a particular position in the discussion. |
| 4.4. | Business Process Re-engineering |
| 4.4.1. | The contractor shall provide technical expertise to perform root cause problem solving and business process re-engineering, to include modeling in the AF system architecture tool of choice, data capture and analysis, community of interest, contextual models, Business Case Analysis (BCA) and any other technical artifacts required by SDDP steps 1-3 to ensure all information is appropriate and captured in the SDDP artifacts and models. |
| 4.4.2. | The contractor will also assist in performing Course of Action /COI analysis of Alternatives/BCA analysis. This includes providing expertise in operations research analysis, industry/Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) / Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solutions, systems engineering, and cost analysis. |
| 4.5. | Operations Research Analysis |
| 4.5.1. | Operations Research Analysts (ORA) provide support in developing the COA evaluation criteria that will stand up to audit and protest and performing complex analyses on alternative material solutions and impact analysis across the (DOT_LPF) spectrum. ORAs also develop metrics down to the activity level for re-engineered business processes to allow for measurement of successful pain point resolution once the process has been deployed. |
| 4.6. | Cost Analysis |
| 4.6.1. | Contractor shall provide the cost analysis and cost estimate to support the Logistics Initiatives Return on Investment (ROI), Pay Back Period calculations, and Rough Order of magnitude (ROM) calculations for all SDDP financial requirements. |
Demonstrate capability and experience to providing SDDP support in the following areas:
| 1. | Describe briefly the capability of your company to provide fully trained staff capable of providing technical and functional expertise transforming the U.S. Air Force logistics Business Processes. |
| 2. | Describe briefly your company’s access to personnel processing the required soft and hard skill sets to provide Capability Workshop facilitation, business process reengineering, logistics / financial data capture and analysis in a team environment. |
| 3. | Describe briefly your company’s ability to provide contract employees capable of doing Operations Research Analysis leading to a COA evaluation across the (DOT_LPF) spectrum criteria that will stand up to audit and competition protest. |
| 4. | Describe your company’s ability to provide contract employees to perform on-going integration analysis of logistics capability initiatives to ensure a single view of transformation is being pursued across the Enterprise. |
| 5. | Describe your companies’ ability of providing Business Operations support in a fast pace quickly changing environment to include but not limited to Information Technology support, Timekeeping, Executive personnel support, and workflow management. |
6. Please include your company’s legal name, address, point of contact information, and your DUNS number.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Response by e-mail is required and should be forwarded to John Akin, Contracting Officer, via e-mail at John.akin@gsa.gov and Benedicta Reyes, Project Manager, benny.reyes@gsa.gov. Response is requested on or before 26 Feb 16. This request for information is not a commercial solicitation and the Government will not pay for any information submitted or for any costs associated with providing the information.
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