MCU Wargaming IDIQ (PreSol Conf) Brief_12 Mar 24_MCU FINAL.pdf

MCU

Pre Solicitation Conference

Wargaming Training and Education Support Services

Solicitation M00264-24-R-0006

MCINCR – RCO

12 March 2024

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The overall classification of this brief is: Unclassified

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Welcome

Agenda:

09:30 to 09:40 Welcome 09:40 to 09:50 MCU Wargaming Acquisition Background 09:50 to 10:10 Stakeholder’s Missions 10:10 to 11:00 Objectives of MCU Wargaming 11:00 to 11:20 RFP criteria 11:20 to 11:30 Collecting Questions 12:00 Q&A Discussion and Closure

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Marine Corps University Mission, Values and Vision

Mission Marine Corps University/Education Command educates Marines to prevail in combat.

Values Heritage: Upholding our legacy as an elite fighting force, we preserve and present the history of the United States Marine Corps to our successors and the public.

Innovation: We educate Marines to be pioneers and lifelong learners of critical thinking, collaboration, initiative, and leadership.

Decisiveness: Highly disciplined in planning, decision making, and execution, we develop Marines to deliver timely, relevant, and compelling solutions to complex problems.

Vision Be the premier institution where warfighters explore history’s lessons, integrate novel technology, and emerge as the most capable, sought-after leaders in the ever-evolving landscape of conflict. We are dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous professional military education, strategic thinking, and excellence, equipping our graduates to face future challenges with resilience and to lead with unwavering honor, courage, and commitment.

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MCU Organizational Chart

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Sergeant Major Chief of Staff

Senior Service Representatives at Joint and Service

Schools

Directors

SNCO

Academies

Staff Secretary

Safety

Aide-de-Camp

Protocol Officer

Marine Corps Uniform Board

Chaplain

SJA

Executive Admin Support Specialist

Marine Corps University Foundation

Marine Corps Association & Foundation

Board of Visitors

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

CDET Regional Directors

Director College of Distance Education and

Training (CDET)

President, MCU

CG, EDCOM

Vice President for Operations and

Plans

Vice President for Business Affairs

Provost/ Vice President for Academic Affairs

Vice President for Distance Learning

Comptroller

Director Marine Corps War College

Director School of Advanced

Warfighting

Director Command and Staff College

Director Expeditionary

Warfare School

Director Marine Corps Senior

Enlisted Academy

Director College of Enlisted Military Education

Director Marine Corps

University Press

Director Marine Corps

History Division

Director National

Museum of the Marine Corps

Director Lejeune

Leadership Institute

Director Krulak Center

Wargaming Directorate

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MCU Wa rgam in g Marine Corps University (MCU) incorporates a fully-integrated wargaming environment to examine tactics, operations, and strategy in relevant historical and future, naval and joint scenarios in order to develop students of all ranks who are able to think critically, solve problems creatively, decide effectively, and communicate solutions.

1 Wargaming Directorate (Staffing)

Curriculum Integration (Course Outcomes)

Faculty Development

Enabling Infrastructure

External Collaboration

Wargaming Lines of Effort:

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MCU Wa rgam in g In i tia tives

Marine Corps University (MCU) has wargaming initiatives to execute training and education for the Marines. These initiatives include:

1 Professional Military Education (PME) Fight Club Program

Operational Wargame System (OWS)

MCU's Wargaming Cloud

Wargaming and Operational Art Faculty Development Course

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PME Fight Club Program: AY23-24

Table Top & Miniatures Demonstrations

• Episodic Table Top & Miniatures Wargame Demonstrations

• Goal is ~two to three events per month

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A Networked Community of Practice

Modern All Domain Warfare

• Operational Level Combat

• Joint Warfighting

Operational Wargame System (OWS)

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Professional Edition

Order of Battle: WWII

MCU’s Wargaming Cloud

Vision & Opportunity

• Virtual Wargame Library

• Reps & Sets on student time

• Wargames as “Homework”

• Online MCU Tournaments

• Wargaming as an Intramural Sport

• Distributed Wargame Capability

• Learning Assessments

Game Library Player Profiles

Computer Wargames

Virtual Wargame Arenas

Company Commander

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Learning Outcomes

1. Apply wargaming methodologies (both virtual and in-person) to historical and contemporary military campaigns to identify strategic and operational principles of warfighting.

2. Develop the critical thinking and observation skills to assess player decision making in wargame scenarios.

3. Apply lessons learned from wargaming experiences to enhance strategic thinking and decision-making in real-world scenarios.

4. Demonstrate proficiency in using wargaming tools and technologies to support military planning.

Course Framework Part 1. Wargame Study #1 & #2 (In Person) (36 Hours)

Part 2. Wargame Study #3 & #4 (Virtual) (~36 Hours)

Part 3. OWS Facilitation Course (36 Hours)

Part 4. Individual Wargame Facilitation Project (~40 Hours)

Total Time: ~148 Hours

Completed over 6 to 24 months. Does not need to be executed in sequence.

Course Concept This course provides faculty with an experiential foundation in wargaming and wargame facilitation. The goal is to equip faculty with the knowledge and confidence necessary to integrate wargames as a learning modality into professional military education. The course design centers on showcasing how wargames can be used to enable learning in operational art and military planning. Participants complete a multi-part program of instruction, leveraging both virtual and in-person sessions and wargames, resulting in a certification in Wargaming & Operational Art.

Wargaming & Operational Art Faculty Development Course

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MCU WARGAMING REQUIREMENTS

MCU Wargaming Training and

Education Services

Education and Training

Wargaming Services

PWS section 5.1

Special Wargaming Services PWS Section 5.2

Wargame Library & Content Services PWS section 5.3

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MCU WARGAMING REQUIREMENTS

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

- On-site / Off-site

- Security Requirements (DD-254 is at the Secret level)

- Travel Requirements

- Meeting Support (Integrated Product Teams)

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MCU WARGAMING REQUIREMENTS

5.1 Wargame Education & Training Services Capability Overview – This task addresses all mission essential training and education related to wargaming. This includes FACDEV classes on Wargaming, Student education and training in Wargaming, Wargame Tutorials, and running a certification course in Wargame Facilitation.

The Education & Training tasks support the following service areas:

• FACDEV Wargaming Classes/Wargame Facilitation Certification Course

• General Support to the Wargaming Directorate

• Support to Individual Schools

• Support to TECOM and Training Command

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MCU WARGAMING REQUIREMENTS

5.2 Special Wargaming Services Capability Overview – This task addresses wargaming event support services. Across the enterprise there is a requirement for support services that provides advisory on specific domains within wargaming in order to assist and assess specific aspects of a wargame and its outcomes. This includes areas such logistics, energy, and regional expertise, etc. These are not necessarily wargaming experts but experts who can help facilitate specific aspects of a wargame to include wargame analysis, scenario development, and wargame preparation. Support will be non-severable on a daily basis and the specific expertise needed will be determined at the Task Order level.

*Some examples included MCU, Office of Net Assessment (ONA), and other stake holders throughout the Marine Corps

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MCU WARGAMING REQUIREMENTS

5.3 Marine Corps University’s Wargame Library & Content Services Capability Overview – This task is focused on wargaming library augmentation consisting of commercial analog tabletop wargames as well as commercial computer wargames for a cloud environment or on stand-alone systems. The contractor shall assist MCU in the purchase of wargame tools to be available to the Marine Corps University. This entails episodic purchasing of tabletop wargames and digital wargame licenses per the request of the government. This also includes working with commercial game companies to ensure appropriate technical support is covered in the digital wargame software licenses terms.

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

The Government intends to award a single Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity contract consisting of Firm Fixed Price (FFP) Contract Line-Item Numbers (CLINs) for service requirements and Cost Reimbursement CLINs for Government-directed travel expenses. The contract awarded will have a 60-month ordering period.

The Government intends to evaluate proposals and award a contract without discussions with Offerors. However, the Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary. If the Contracting Officer determines that the number of proposals that would otherwise be in the competitive range exceeds the number at which an efficient competition can be conducted, the Contracting Officer may limit the number of proposals in the competitive range to the greatest number that will permit an efficient competition among the most highly rated proposals.

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

Best Value The Government anticipates awarding a single contract from this solicitation to the responsible offerors whose proposals, conforming to the solicitation, represent the best value to the Government, price and non-price factors considered.

The Government will execute the evaluation using the Best Value Tradeoff process, using FAR 15- Contracting by Negotiations, adhering to the criteria set forth in the Department of Defense Source Selection Procedures, dated 20 August 2022.

The following factors will be used to evaluate offers:

Factor 1 – Technical Approach Factor 2 – Past Performance Factor 3 – Price

The non-price factors (Factors 1-2) are listed in descending order of importance. All non-price factors when combined are significantly more important than Factor 3 - Price.

Prospective Offerors are forewarned that a proposal meeting the solicitation requirements with the lowest evaluated price may not be selected for award if a higher rated evaluated priced proposal is determined to be more advantageous to the Government.

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SOLICITATION: CLIN STRUCTURE

MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

CLIN Deliverable/PWS Objective Contract Type Ceiling Values

0001 Education and Training Wargaming Services

Firm Fixed Price $30,652,849

0002 Special Wargaming Services Firm Fixed Price

$6,473,041 0003 Wargame Library & Content

Services Firm Fixed Price

$8,304,728 0004 Travel $4,000,000 0005 Other Travel Related Expenses $300,000

Total Ceiling Value $49,730,618

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TASK INSTANCES

MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

PWS Section 5.1 Education and Training Wargaming Services (CLIN 0001)

Potential Instances/Months across 5 years

Caveats

Task 5.1.1 Faculty development and Wargame participant training services 120 months

The contractor shall define the number of FTEs and staffing needed to support EACH task of the

PWS for ONE instance/month.

Task 5.1.2 General SME support to Wargaming Directorate and MCU 120 months

Task 5.1.3 SME Expeditionary Warfare School 60 months Task 5.1.4 SME to Command & Staff College 60 months Task 5.1.5 SME Support to School of Advanced Warfighting 60 months Task 5.1.6 SME Support to Marine Corps War College 60 months Task 5.1.7 SME Support to College of Distance Education & Training 60 months

Task 5.1.8 SME Support to College of Enlisted Military Education 60 months Task 5.1.9 SME Support to Training Command 180 months Task 5.1.10 SME Support to Training & Education Command 180 months

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

PWS Task

Potential Instances per Task Order

Potential Instances across 5 years PWS Section 5.2 Special Wargaming Services (CLIN 0002)

Task 5.2.1 SME Level II Support for wargame events

Subject to wargame event length and number of SME needed 1,825 days

Task 5.2.2 SME Level III Support for wargame events

Subject to wargame event length and number of SME needed

1,825 days

• The SME support is on a per individual basis. The Government is requiring pricing for an SME (individual), regardless of the expertise area on a PER DAY basis.

• At the task order level, the Government will notify the contractor about how many SME's (individuals) will be required to support a given wargame event at a set number of days.

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED VIA E-MAIL. PROPOSALS

SHALL BE SENT VIA PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COURIER OR HAND

DELIVERED AND MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE CUTOFF

DATE/TIME.

THE PROPOSAL SHALL CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING

VOLUMES/SECTIONS:

VOLUME 2: FACTOR 1 – TECHNICAL APPROACH

VOLUME 3: FACTOR 2 – PAST PERFORMANCE

VOLUME 4: FACTOR 3 – PRICE

NUMBER OF REQUIRED HARD COPIES PER VOLUME IS AS FOLLOWS

VOLUME VOLUME TITLE PAGE LIMIT CDs

1 Compliance Documentation No Limit

12 Factor 1: Technical Approach 45 pages

3 Factor 2: Past Performance 20 pages

4 Factor 3: Price No Limit

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

VOLUME 1: COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTATION

Offer Letter Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) plan Verification of Eligibility of Small Business Joint Ventures DD Form 254

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

VOLUME 2: FACTOR 1 – TECHNICAL APPROACH

Approach Description Staffing Matrix Instructional Support Simulation Staffing Plan Sourcing of Wargaming Tools Initial and Sample Task Orders Approach

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VOLUME 3: FACTOR 2 – PAST PERFORMANCE

Submit up to six of its most relevant contracts or efforts within the past four years Include the annual value of the portion of work that relates to the MCU

WARGAMING PWS

Consider:

• Recency,

• Relevancy

‒ Scope ‒ Complexity ‒ Magnitude

• Quality Confidence Rating per DoD Source Selection Guide rating criteria

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VOLUME 4: FACTOR 3 – PRICE

Fixed Unit Prices Initial and Sample Task Orders Total Evaluated Price

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MCU WARGAMING SOLICITATION

VOLUME 4: FACTOR 3 – PRICE

Fixed Unit Prices

Description Pricing Basis Unit Prices

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Education and Training Wargaming Services (PWS Section 5.1) Task 5.1.1 Faculty development and Wargame participant training services Per Month Task 5.1.2 General SME support to Wargaming Directorate and MCU Per Month Task 5.1.3 SME Expeditionary Warfare School Per Month Task 5.1.4 SME to Command & Staff College Per Month Task 5.1.5 SME Support to School of Advanced Warfighting Per Month Task 5.1.6 SME Support to Marine Corps War College Per Month Task 5.1.7 SME Support to College of Distance Education & Training Per Month Task 5.1.8 SME Support to College of Enlisted Military Education Per Month Task 5.1.9 SME Support to Training Command Per Month Task 5.1.10 SME Support to Training & Education Command Per Month Special Wargaming Services (PWS Section 5.2) Task 5.2.1 SME Level II Support for wargame events Per Day Task 5.2.2 SME Level III Support for wargame events Per Day Wargame Library & Content Services (PWS section 5.3) Wargaming Tools Handling Rate Rate Travel and Other Travel Related Expenses Travel Handling Rate Rate Other Travel Related Expenses Handling Rate Rate

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VOLUME 4: FACTOR 3 – PRICE

Initial and Sample Task Orders & Total Evaluated Price Initial Task Order Pricing consist of ONE iteration of 12 months support under Ordering Period 1 for the following:

• CLIN 0001 Education and Training Wargaming Services (PWS section 5.1) ‒ Task 5.1.1 Faculty Development and wargame participant training services ‒ Task 5.1.2 General SME Support to Wargame Directorate and MCU ‒ Task 5.1.4 SME to Command and Staff College

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VOLUME 4: FACTOR 3 – PRICE

Sample Task Order Pricing consist of the following:

• CLIN 0001 Education and Training Wargaming Services (PWS section 5.1) ‒ Task 5.1.1 Faculty Development and wargame participant training services (Only Year 2-5) ‒ Task 5.1.2 General SME Support to Wargame Directorate and MCU (Only Year 2-5) ‒ Task 5.1.3 SME Expeditionary Warfare School ‒ Task 5.1.4 SME to Command and Staff College (Only Year 2-5) ‒ Task 5.1.5 SME Support to School of Advanced Warfighting ‒ Task 5.1.6 SME Support to Marine Corps War College ‒ Task 5.1.7 SME Support to College of Distance Education & Training ‒ Task 5.1.8 SME Support to College of Enlisted Military Education ‒ Task 5.1.9 SME Support to Training Command ‒ Task 5.1.10 SME Support to Training & Education Command

• CLIN 0002 Special Wargaming Services (PWS section 5.2) ‒ Task 5.2.1 SME Level II Support for wargame events ‒ Task 5.2.2 SME Level III Support for wargame events

• CLIN 0003 Wargame Library & Content Services (PWS section 5.3)

• CLIN 0004 Travel and Other Travel Related Cost

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Tips to consider:

CLIN 0001- unit prices are based on ONE instance/month of support per task area. This CLIN will be set as FFP.

CLIN 0002- the unit prices are based on a per SME/individual basis for one full day of support per SME level. The

Government is requiring one unit price per year for an SME (individual), regardless of the expertise area on a PER DAY basis. This CLIN will be set as FFP.

CLIN 0003- The Government will define the required tools at the task order level. The Government will pay for the direct cost of the tools plus a handling factor amount. This CLIN will be set as FFP.

CLIN 0004- The Government will define the required travel at the task order level. The Government will pay for the direct cost of the travel plus a handling factor amount. This CLIN will be set as Cost Reimbursement.

CLIN 0005- The Government will define the required Other Travel Related Expenses at the task order level. The Government will pay for the direct cost of the other travel expenses plus a handling factor amount. This CLIN will be set as Cost Reimbursement.

Handling Factors

• The handling factor rate shall be inclusive of all non-direct cost associated with sourcing and obtaining the wargaming tools used for executing Wargame Library and Content Services as well as managing travel and Other Travel Related Expenses.

• This factor is set on contract for the duration of the IDIQ. The establishment of the handling factors is in lieu of indirect rates. No indirect cost will be applicable to the transactions since the agreed handling factor will serve the purpose on setting this compensation.

Fee/profit is strictly prohibited on CLINS 0003, 0004 and 0005 Please use FULL DOLLAR AMOUNTS for unit prices.

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Initial Task Order:

Initial Task Order

Task CLIN Year 1

Education and Training Wargaming Services (PWS Section 5.1)

Task 5.1.1 Faculty development and Wargame participant training services 0001

Task 5.1.2 General SME support to Wargaming Directorate and MCU 0001

Task 5.1.4 SME to Command & Staff College 0001

Initial Task Order Total $0

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Sample Task Order:

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Total Evaluated Price:

Total Evaluated Price Task CLIN Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total

Initial Task Order 0001 $ - Covered in Sample Task Order 0

Sample Task Order

0001 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - 0 0002 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - 0 0003 $ 1,330,000 $ 1,369,900 $ 1,410,997 $ 1,453,327 $ 1,496,926 $7,061,150 0004 $ 750,000 $ 772,500 $ 795,675 $ 819,545 $ 844,132 $3,981,852 0005 $ 50,000 $ 51,500 $ 53,045 $ 54,636 $ 56,275 $265,456

Total Evaluated Price $ 2,130,000 $ 2,193,900 $ 2,259,717 $ 2,327,508 $ 2,397,333 $ 11,308,458

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