CNIMS_Notice_of_Intent.pdf

Other Defense Agencies, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

(Headquarters), DTRA Annex 8725 John J. Kingman Road, MSC 6201, Fort Belvoir, VA, 22060-6201, UNITED STATES

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) intends to award a single-source Indefinite

Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to the incumbent, Biocomplexity Institute of

Virginia Tech, 1880 Pratt Dr. STE 2006, Blacksburg, VA 24060, with an ordering period of 10 years for task orders in support of the Comprehensive National Incident Management

System (CNIMS).

DTRA has a CNIMS requirement to build a simulation system that incorporates details of interdependent social, behavioral, economic and societal infrastructure, mainly for CBRN decision informatics. The requirement is to build a simulation system to understand causality in complex, interacting (sociotechnical) systems. Individual behaviors and relations in context determine collective phenomena – new organizational principles emerge at multiple scales with feedback across time, space, and scale. Interaction-based causal modeling has three distinct purposes: (1) explain an observed phenomenon (understanding and explanation); (2) forecast a range of future and counter-factual phenomena (exploration); (3) and to guide the course of actions in some specific problem context (action). The endstate goal is to simulate very large systems utilizing theoretical foundations of simulation of interaction based systems, computing, and dynamical systems, computational and systems biology, computational problems in epidemiology, cognitive science and computationally aided reasoning, computational economics, and critical infrastructure simulation.

This notice is not a request for competitive proposals or a solicitation of offers. However, if a company has reason to believe that it can meet or exceed all the needs of DTRA for this requirement, it may submit written documentation to support its claim, i.e., a capability statement, proposal, or quotation, which shall be considered by this agency. Any response to this notice must provide clear and convincing evidence that competition would be advantageous to the Government in future procurements. In the absence of qualified sources, an IDIQ contract will be awarded under the Other than Full and Open Competition procedures, pursuant to 10

United States Code (U.S.C.) 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 253(c)(1), as implemented by Federal

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source. Telephonic inquiries will not be accepted. The decision not to compete this requirement is within the discretion of the

Government. Market research was conducted through a 2016 Sources Sought. Analysis of responses did not reflect any other than the incumbent as fully demonstrating the capabilities required to meet all requirements. This requirement is subject to the availability of funding.

** All qualified sources must respond in writing no later than 5:00 PM (EDT), 27 February

2017, to DTRA/J4CRB, Attn: Roger White (roger.l.white52.civ@mail.mil) and copy Daisy

Chang (daisy.m.chang.civ@mail.mil). Responses received after this date/time are considered untimely and shall not be considered. Any documentation received shall become the property of the Government.

Contracting Office: DTRA/J4CRB, 8725 John J. Kingman Rd, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6201 mailto:roger.l.white52.civ@mail.mil mailto:daisy.m.chang.civ@mail.mil