1.03 PWS.pdf

NAVAL HISTORY & HERITAGE COMMAND

NAVY MUSEUMS DIVISION

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

1.0 Task

1.1 Task Title: Information & Technology (IT) Study for The National Museum of the United States Navy Campus

1.2 Definition of Need and Proposed Resolution: The Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) seeks a contractor to plan, organize, and execute a study to determine the infrastructure requirements, costs, Department of the Navy (DON) CIO approvals needed, and manpower requirements to establish a modern, robust museum IT architecture for the new National Museum of the United States Navy Campus. The study will examine at least three (3) museums (U.S. Navy Academy; Naval War College; and the National Museum of the United States Army (NMUSA), at a minimum to determine and report on the IT architecture necessary on how to establish a web-presence separate and apart from the traditional Navy and Marine Corps Internet (NMCI) / service component IT infrastructure.

1.3 Objectives: This contract will select a contractor to conduct a study of other Navy, DOD, or public agencies or museums to determine the hardware, software, and manning best practices for the establishment of a world class museum IT system and website and provide NHHC with a plan on how to accomplish this as well as associated projected costs.

2.0 Details / Specifications

2.1 The Contractor shall coordinate with the NMUSN Campus Program Office and capture all previous planning for the vision of the new National Museum of the United States Navy Campus, including preliminary gallery, theater, and staffing designs, with an eye to projecting the minimum IT infrastructure required to support the preliminary plans.

2.2 After capturing the specifications of bullet 2.1, the contractor shall visit and conduct an in-depth study of at least three (3) peer institutions to ascertain their IT solutions, specifically as they relate to museum operations at that institution. At a minimum, the contractor shall be expected to report on IT operations at the U.S. Naval Academy, with specific attention to the operations of the USNA Museum; the Naval War College, with specific attention to the operations of the NWC Museum; and the National Museum of the United States Army

(NMUSA).

2.3 The Contractor shall create a sample design layout for the development of the IT infrastructure, with associated projected costs.

2.4 Provide information / market research and cost benefit analysis, based on the study of similar museums websites, regarding webhosting vs. web-server requirements to provide a world-class website experience to virtual museum visitors. As part of specification 2.4, the contractor shall make recommendations on the viability of the use of a .org domain in place of the current .mil.

2.5 Determine the process and DON CIO approvals required regarding the possible establishment of a .org website.

2.6 Provide a content migration plan with costs, time and manpower requirements for possible content migration from the existing .mil website to the .org website.

2.7 Provide details on how to provide access through a .org domain into Department of the Navy systems hosted on NMCI such as SLDCADA, DTS, MyBiz, TWMS, etc. so museum staff have access to necessary Navy.

2.8 Provide details on how to utilize and integrate a Digital Asset Management system (DAM) – such as CONTENT dm or similar Commercial Off-the-Shelf for digitization of NHHC’s historical archive collection into the website.

2.9 Provide details on how to incorporate long-term data storage, with redundancy, through a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), of at least 300 TB.

3.0 Supporting Information

3.1 The current NMUSN is located at building 76 on the Washington Navy Yard, DC.

3.2 Within the next 2 to 3 years, the Navy will be building a museum to celebrate the history and accomplishment of the U.S. Navy and its service members. The National Museum of the U.S. Navy will need assistance for the analysis, research and development of IT systems that will support the new museum.

3.3 Although the future site location of the new NMUSN campus is located at the Southeast Federal Center, establishment of this .org domain, on either a purpose built non-NMCI stand-alone network or through web-hosting service provider is required. Once the new museum construction is completed, it may be necessary to migrate the website and infrastructure to the new museum location.

4.0 Deliverables

4.1 Successful execution of all elements listed in 2.0 Details/Specifications

4.2 Digital files with plans, cost estimates, renderings, and conceptual ideas

4.3 Digital and Hard copy presentations and briefs

5.0 Minimum Qualifications

5.1 Contractor shall provide documentation showing qualifications of experience executing similar studies and or showing experience with successful Network and Website engineering.

Such documentation shall include brief resumes for all management personnel that will participate in this project.

6.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

1 September 2024 - 31 March 2025.

7.0 Progress Reports

The contractor shall submit weekly Progress and Status Reports electronically in Portable Document Format (PDF).

The report shall include, but is not limited to:

7.1 Name of company

7.2 Date of report

7.3 Work accomplished, including hours expended providing support

7.4 Work planned

7.5 Problems encountered

7.6 Any foreseen changes to schedule

The reports will be sent via e-mail, in PDF format, to the appropriate parties at the following addresses: Available upon award.

8.0 Security

8.1 Base access may be required. Visitors to the Washington Navy Yard will not be accepted without prior coordination.

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