Sources_Sought_SW Eng Dept Follow On.pdf

Software Engineering Department Support

The responses to this Sources Sought will be utilized as a market research tool to identify potential and eligible firms, of all sizes, prior to the issuance of a solicitation.

Any resultant solicitation will be released in the Beta SAM (beta.sam.gov) for acquiring the services. Prior to that, a synopsis with regards to this requirement will be released in Beta SAM.

It is the responsibility of potential offerors to monitor these sites for additional information pertaining to this requirement.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A

REQUEST FOR 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 CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS

ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF

RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY

RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY.

INTRODUCTION

The Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division (NAWCAD), AIR-2.5.1.5, at Patuxent River, MD announces its intention to procure, on a competitive basis, the services necessary to perform software systems engineering in support of the Program Executive Office (PEO) programs and various

NAVAIR PMA activities, primarily at NAVAIR Patuxent River, Maryland. Specifically, the requirement is in support of the Software Engineering Department. The services are currently being performed by Sabre Systems, Inc. under N00178-14-D-7908, Task Order M801 as a large business. The existing contract is a SEAPORT-e NAVSEA Multiple Award Contract (MAC) Task

Order.

THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. It is a market research tool being used to determine potential and eligible firms capable of providing the services described herein prior to issuance of a Request for Proposal. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of this notice.

ELIGIBILITY

The Product Service Code (PSC) for this requirement is R425; the NAICS is 541330. All interested businesses are encouraged to respond.

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

Software Engineering support is required for direct software systems engineering support throughout the life cycle of a weapon system from concept development through disposal, and applied to Naval Aircraft weapons as well as support systems for U.S. domestic military programs and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs. The prospective contract will provide highly focused and specialized software engineering and technical support services, within the acquisition, development, deployment and sustainment phases of a weapon system, across a wide range of Naval Air Programs for aircraft systems and subsystems. The prospective contract will additionally include support for the development of operational systems and integration, as well as the ability of that software to be inter-operable with other Navy platforms. Representative samples of the contractor support requirements include: Software Systems Engineering, Systems/Subsystems Software Integration, Software Development, Software Test, Software

Acquisition, Laboratory Engineering and Integration, Avionics/Software/Air Vehicle

Technology Insertion, Platform Simulation, Configuration Management, and Program

Performance Assessment and Analysis/Planning during the Acquisition and Sustainment phases in support of the PEOs, and NAVAIR PMA activities.

ANTICIPATED PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The anticipated period of performance includes a five (5) year ordering period. The anticipated performance start date is 01 June 2021.

ANTICIPATED CONTRACT TYPE

The contract type is anticipated to be CPFF/Cost Reimbursement type vehicle with an estimated total Level of Effort of approximately 1,852,800 man-hours (based on 1,920 hours per year) over a period of five years. The procurement is planned to be a single award Indefinite

Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract. These services are anticipated to be performed as follows:

Percent of Effort On-Site Off-Site

NAS Patuxent River, MD 100 90 10

The primary place of performance under this contract is Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, MD with a limited amount of support at other enterprise-wide facility locations, to include but not limited to: North Island, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Jacksonville, FL and Whidbey Island, WA and

Horsham, PA. Specific performance locations will be included in individual task orders. Travel and associated per diem shall not be authorized to and from the duty station.

REQUIREMENTS

Refer to the attached draft Statement of Work (SOW).

Labor categories anticipated to execute the contemplated services include: Refer to the attached draft SOW.

Since the resultant contract is anticipated to be on a cost-type basis, the successful awardees will also be required to have a Government approved accounting system upon contract award.

Should this requirement be deemed appropriate for full and open competition, it is anticipated that a minimum of a 26% small business subcontracting goal be incorporated for large business offerors.

SUBMITTAL INFORMATION

It is requested that interested businesses submit to the Contracting Office a brief capabilities statement package (no more than 15 pages in length, single spaced, 12 point font minimum) demonstrating ability to perform the services listed in the table below and referenced in the attached draft SOW.

SOW

Paragraph

Reference

Requirement Requested Information in the context of providing Aircraft or Weapon

Systems hardware and software capabilities

3.3.1 Mission

Analysis

Support

Capability to review and comment on Aircraft or Weapon Systems Mission Analysis documents that will define requirements for platforms and systems during the acquisition and/or sustainment phases of the program using Government provided data. Capability to evaluate the impact of new equipment capabilities and/or the impact of updated Aircraft or

Weapon Systems hardware and software on meeting the requirements and the mission performance against projected or current threat capabilities.

3.3.2 Signal

Processing

Requirements

Support

Capability to review and comment on the results of engineering and scientific research of system processing requirements for current and advanced weapons systems using contractor derived and Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) provided information.

Capability to provide technical analysis, guidance and updates in a formal report.

3.3.3 System

Requirements

Definition

Support for

Hardware and

Software

Capability to review and provide recommendations on Aircraft or Weapon Systems Hardware and Software requirements, during the acquisition and sustainment phases of a project, based upon contractor derived and NAWCAD provided information by developing trade-off studies, engineering approach analyses, system implementation analyses, and performing research to provide comments. Capability to review and comment on the ability of the Aircraft or Weapon Systems hardware and Software requirements to meet the program objectives.

3.3.4 System

Design/Develop ment Support for Hardware and Software

Capability to review and provide recommendations on proposed Aircraft or Weapon

Systems hardware and software system design requirements, during the acquisition and sustainment phase of a project, based on contractor derived and NAWCAD provided information by making operational considerations, conducting trade-off studies, engineering approach analyses, system implementation analyses, and providing suggestions for technical development. Capability to verify the Aircraft or Weapon

Systems hardware and software system design requirements and that they meet the stated program objectives.

3.3.5 Software

Development

Support

Capability to perform the following activities as part of an Aircraft or Weapon Systems software development: system resource evaluation, software requirements evaluation, software definition, code and unit test, integration test, software delivery, and independent test, software quality assurance, and software configuration monitoring.

3.3.6 Software

Product

Deliverables

(SPD) Support

Capability to review and provide recommendations on design, installation, and implementation plans and test procedures for Aircraft or Weapon Systems software products by using the guidelines in the Government provided Software Development Plan

(SDP).

3.3.7 Test and

Evaluation

Plans and

Reports

Capability to review and provide recommendations on the development, delivery, updates, and maintenance of test plans and procedures, which will be used in test facilities at the contractor or Government development site.

3.3.8 Fleet Training Capability to perform initial fleet introduction training for Aircraft or Weapon Systems, including initial fleet orientation and full initial fleet training, for enhanced systems and/or system program configurations by updating training materials for use in instruction to the operational test community, the fleet, and the training community after the initial development of the course for non- Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) driven changes.

Training material may include web based Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) technical instruction updates and Computer Based Training (CBT) updates.

3.3.9 Hardware and

Software

Integration

Facilities and

Software

Production

Facilities (SPFs)

Capability to sustain and upgrade the aircraft Software Production Facilities (SPFs).

Capability to perform integration of the aircraft acoustic and non-acoustic sensor subsystems, onboard systems, and ancillary systems with the platform tactical/mission computers. Capability to operate various software versions (including foreign military sales) in support of the various sensor stations (such as Acoustics, Electric Support Measures

(ESM), Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), Radar, Magnetic Detecting System (MAD)), onboard systems (such as search stores, weapons, communications, and navigation), and ancillary systems (such as network centric warfare suite, simulation suite, and specialized test sets) enabling testing and verification of the Aircraft or Weapon Systems hardware and software interface between systems.

3.3.10 Integration

Facility

Upgrade

Capability to upgrade aircraft laboratory facilities by updating and maintaining plans, design and fabrication, laboratory architecture, analyses studies, and various interface design and implementation suggestions. The laboratory facilities (example: Program Hardware

Integration Lab (PHIC)), NAWCAD, are constantly undergoing renovation and updating to ensure that the best possible capability is made.

3.3.11 Facility

Operator/User

Manual

Capability to develop and maintain the operator/user manual for a laboratory or integration support system/equipment by monitoring systems’ operations and system capabilities.

Capability to provide a description of how the system is to be operated, to include turn-on/turn-off procedures, program load procedures, system initialization, load/data sources, description of all operator controls, and a definition of all human-machine interactions. The user portion of the manual is meant as a primer and guide for system users. The manual shall assume the system is on-line and operational and lead a user through all of the capabilities of the system. The operation and description of the human-machine interface shall be emphasized; however, overall system capabilities shall be addressed.

3.3.13 Aircraft Testing Capability to review and provide recommendations on plans for ground debug and system level flight-testing on Navy supplied test aircraft by complying with applicable flight manuals for the aircraft platform under test.

3.3.14 Data Base

Maintenance

Capability to maintain various data base management systems by utilizing tools such as, Change, Synergy, and Microsoft Access, Razor and Rational Team Concert (RTC) for the purpose of providing project team access to the project data bases for purposes of new item entry, comments entry and maintenance, documents, problem reports and general review.

All responses must include the following information: Company Name; Company Address;

Company Business Size; and Point-of-Contact (POC) name, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address, and must address, at a minimum, the following:

1. Prior/current corporate experience performing efforts of similar size and scope within the last three years. Include contract number, organization supported, indication of whether as a prime or subcontractor, contract values (value of the prime contract and if applicable, the value of your subcontract if you were not the prime), Government point of contact with current telephone number, and a brief description of how the referenced contract relates to the services described herein.

2. Can or has your company managed a task of this nature? If so, please provide details.

3. Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, please cite contracts and teaming arrangement.

4. Resources available such as corporate management and currently employed personnel to be assigned to tasks under this effort to include professional qualifications, specific experience of such personnel, and the ability to have personnel located at the cities specified.

5. Management approach to staffing this effort with qualified personnel.

6. Statement regarding capability to obtain the required industrial security clearances for personnel.

7. If you are a small business, provide an explanation of your company’s ability to perform at least 50% of the tasking described in this draft SOW for the 5-year period.

8. Company’s ability to begin performance upon contract award.

9. Provide a statement including current small/large business status and company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history, office locations, CAGE code, DUNS number, etc.

10. Respondents to this notice must also indicate whether they are a large business or qualify as a Small, Small Disadvantaged, Small Disadvantaged Veteran Owned Small Business, Women-Owned, 8(a), Hub Zone or Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

Concern.