Market Survey Questionnaire Security and Tech Support.docx

Market Survey Questionnaire

Title: Security and Technical Support Services Issuing Office: Ground Vehicle System Center (GVSC)

1. INTRODUCTION & PURPOSE:

This Market Survey Questionnaire is to provide information to the Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) for future Technical and Security Support for market research purposes. No contract will be awarded from this announcement. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation, nor is it a request seeking contractors to be placed on a solicitation mailing list. Response to this market survey questionnaire is voluntary and no reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this market survey questionnaire and any follow-on information requests. Data submitted in response to this market survey questionnaire will not be returned. No solicitation document exists at this time.

2. SCOPE:

The intent of the future requirement is to conduct analysis and provide recommendations to plan, develop, integrate, and sustain advanced manned and unmanned ground system capabilities for the current and future force, and to strengthen foundational tools, office Security, and Cyber Security labs and ranges which support all of GVSC’s stakeholders. Additionally, performance of the intended requirement will include analysis of systems and processes in both the operational and support phases of the life cycle, identification of potential improvements, and implementation of those improvements. The expected requirement will cover the procurement of hardware, to include software and raw materials through complete technological systems.

3. INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM RESPONDENTS:

Please provide the following information in your response:

· 3.1 Corporate Information:

· Company Name, Address, Point of Contact, CAGE Code, and Company Website

· Business Size and any socio-economic classifications

· A brief overview of your company’s experience, background and capability to provide Technical and Scientific Support.

· 3.2 Technical Questions:

Provide answers to the informational/technical questions below. Describe your firm’s experience in the competencies outlined below. When citing Government work you must include contract numbers and Government POCs.

a.) Describe your company’s experience facilitating the development, integration, and evaluation of various ground vehicle system technologies, materials, components, and systems.

b.) Describe your company’s experience with ground vehicle systems technology development through systems engineering planning and analysis for the development approach for projects and programs that ensure success.

c.) Describe your company’s experience protecting cyber systems to levels determined by Army and DoD regulations including support for research and development (R&D).

d.) Describe your company’s experience planning and configuring ground vehicle cyber systems that are continuously monitored and agile enough to be updated and/or patched as quickly as possible.

e.) Describe your company’s experience analyzing and implementing emerging Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques, including the adoption of Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and modeling best practices when developing new ground vehicle systems in order to trace requirements to system design elements.

f.) Describe your company’s experience providing analysis of current and future threats to a prototype system and the potential impact on system and force survivability.

g.) Describe your company’s experience, preparing a Test & Evaluation (T&E) Plan and performing T&E in accordance with (IAW) a detailed Government T&E Strategy, serving as the T&E planner, coordinator, and advisor for a continual series of vehicle-survivability live-fire tests.

h.) Describe your company’s experience developing anti-tank ranges IAW Department of Army (DA) and local range regulations. Describe your company’s experience assessing risk via a Composite Risk Management (CRM) report for high-hazard events involving the use of high explosives during T&E developing and conducting specialized hazardous munitions training prior to T&E to reduce risk.

i.) Describe your company’s experience developing comprehensive ground vehicle system technology development, integration, and evaluation requiring expedited procurement of hardware, software, and materials that enable development, integration, and evaluation of ground system components, prototypes, systems, and Tank- Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) partner technologies.

j.) Describe your company’s experience conducting cyber security vulnerability scanning and auditing to assess the security posture, identify vulnerabilities, and provide system protection.

k.) Describe your company’s experience executing all security aspects of classified events by gathering, storing, organizing, transporting, and protecting information in preparation for and on the day(s) of the event.

l.) Describe your company’s experience conducting analysis and generating test security plans and conference security plans that ensure that all aspects of information security are properly addressed during each classified event.

m) Discuss your company’s ability to handle clearances and access to DISS (defense information system for security). Describe your Facility Security Officer’s level of experience.

n) Describe your company’s experience in providing senior level Security Subject Matter Experts in managing multi-faceted, complex programs within the GVSC portfolio.

o) Describe your company’s structured compensation plan for salaried employees when they work past their schedule/allotted hours.

4. RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS:

· Responses should be submitted electronically no later than 3:00P.M. EST on 08 July 2026.

· Please submit all responses via email to andrew.d.pokorski.civ@army.mil.

· The subject line of the email should read: “[Contractor Name] response to Market Survey Questionnaire – Scientific and Technical Support”.

· All responses must be Unclassified. Electronic responses are required in any of the following formats: Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat. The document shall not exceed 15-page limit (not including attachments and title page, using Times New Roman, font size 12 with one-inch margins. The maximum size of each email message should be no more than ten (10) megabytes.

· All interested firms, regardless of size, are encouraged to respond to this RFI.

· It is not necessary to respond to this RFI to be eligible for future awards.

5. DISCLAIMER:

Reference herein to any specific commercial company, product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Department of the Army (DA). The opinions of the authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the DA and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

6. PROPRIETARY INFORMATION:

The Government acknowledges its obligations under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and 18 United States Code (U.S.C.) §1905 to protect confidential information provided to the USG. Pursuant to this statute, USG is willing to accept any trade secrets or proprietary restrictions placed upon data presented in response to this RFI and to protect such information from unauthorized disclosure, subject to the following:

• Data must be clearly marked PROPRIETARY and be accompanied by an explanatory text so that the USG is clearly notified on what data is proprietary.

• Mark only data that is truly confidential. Use circling, underscoring, highlighting or any other appropriate means to indicate those portions of a single page which are to be protected.

• Do not mark data that is already in the public domain or is already in possession of the USG or third parties on an unrestricted basis.

• Do not submit any classified data in response to this RFI.

• Proprietary data transmitted electronically must have the PROPRIETARY legend on both the cover of the transmittal e-mail as well as at the beginning of the file. Proprietary information contained within the correspondence or file shall use the legends: “PROPRIETARY PORTION BEGINS” and “PROPRIETARY PORTION ENDS.”

• The USG is not obligated to protect unmarked data. Additionally, marked data that is already in the public domain or in the possession of the USG or third parties, or is afterward placed into the public domain by the owner or another party through no fault of the USG will not be protected once in the public domain. Data already in the possession of the USG will be protected in accordance with the USG’s rights in the data.

In any reproductions of technical data or any portions thereof subject to asserted restrictions, the USG shall also reproduce the asserted restriction legend and any explanatory text. Data submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.