ONR RFI for OLC WiFi.pdf

Request for Information Office of Naval Research

Commercial Wi-Fi Service

1. This Request for Information seeks vendors who can provide services as detailed in the below attached Statement Of Work. Please review and provide a capability statement addressing your company’s ability to comply with the requirements therein.

2. The Government anticipates issuing a firm fixed price contract for a base year and four consecutive one year option periods.

3. The applicable NACIS Code is anticipated to be 517112.

4. Responses should include the following information:

Section I: Corporate Description. Capability Responses must include the following information:

(a) Name of the firm (prime)

(b) The respondent’s size status and whether the respondent is registered in the applicable NAICS code listed above

(c) Ownership (include SSE(s) or JV if applicable), including whether Small, Small Disadvantaged, 8(a), Women-Owned, HUBZone, Veteran Owned or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business or both;

(d) Two points of contact, including name, title, phone, and email address

(e) CAGE Code and Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) (include SSE(s) or JV if applicable)

(f) Affiliate information, including parent corporation, SSE(s), JV partners, potential teaming partners, or subcontractors.

(g) a list of Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) currently held, if any, including the contract numbers and how these GWACs match these requirements.

Section II: Technical Solution. Please respond to the following questions:

(a) Describe the various features and capabilities of the commercial solution. Provide the name of the software and applicable licensing cost as an estimate. If leveraging another Government implemented solution, provide the name and pertinent information (hardware, software, residing agency, etc) about this system.

(b) Application Type. On what type of technology is your solution based? Will your solution operate in a DoD or FEDRAMP-approved cloud environment?

(c) Future Technology. What are your technology plans for the proposed solution? Describe how the proposed solution will be maintained to ensure that your product remains up-to-date with improvements in information technology.

(d) Section 508 of the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act. Please confirm that the proposed product and software solution is Section 508 compliant.

(e) Implementation. Given your understanding of our requirements and environment, what is your typical implementation model? What is the estimated timeline from project initiation to full deployment? Please provide key milestones and the time for each milestone within the timeline.

(f) Risk. What are the five significant risks associated with using your proposed solution to meet the requirements?

(g) Vendor Support Services. What is the availability of support service for the solution proposed, including administrative, technical, training and consulting operations support?

(h) What is the ROM price for the software, licensing fees, hardware, maintenance fees, and system integration services for the proposed solution? Provide a separate price for each proposed element and include any pricing assumptions in your response.

5. This notice is for planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the

Government. This RFI is not a solicitation announcement. No reimbursement will be made for costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement. The Government reserves the right to consider a set aside for small businesses or one of the small business preference groups (e.g., 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.). The Government may not consider responses that do not conform to the instructions herein. Questions shall be submitted to the Contract Specialist via the email address listed below by the specified date.

Questions submitted after the selected date may not receive responses.

6. The points of contact for this RFI are Sarah Chambers sarah.b.chambers.civ@us.navy.mil and Kassia Rivera, kassia.r.rivera.civ@us.navy.mil.

7. The deadline for submission of questions is June 3, 2024 at 1200 EDT. The closing date for this RFI is June 10, 2024 at 1200 EDT.

STATEMENT OF WORK

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH (CIO/053)

ONR OLC GUEST WIFI

1.0 BACKGROUND

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) supports science and technology innovation by funding and providing collaborative areas by which authorized experts inside and outside the Department of the Navy (DoN) can present research, discoveries, developmental schedules, and processes;

and enabling review, discussion, and the merging of ideas to necessary to provide solutions to technical issues faced by the Department of the Navy.

2.0 SCOPE

The acquisition aims to implement a guest Wi-Fi solution in the ONR OLC building at 875 N Randolph Street, Arlington, VA. Although the building currently possesses Wi-Fi, only ONR Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) can utilize it. The introduction of the Guest Wi-Fi is intended to bridge this gap, enabling non-GFE equipment to connect to Wi-Fi and offering ONR guests Wi-Fi capabilities. These services are to establish baseline and wireless networking to improve connectivity for all parties in the facility.

The contractor should provide 1GB internet connection, backhaul network services for DAS, Wi- Fi connection for GFE & Non-GFE devices; use circuits for DAS (Distributed Antenna System) for internet access, setup switches/Wi-Fi Router on multiple floors to provide internet access via Access Point (AP) system, provide internet service when service is not available via Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. The contractor shall provide Project Management and Technical Services in order to perform the tasks and produce the deliverables identified in this SOW.

3.0 REQUIREMENT

3.1 Site Survey:

A. The contractor may conduct a site survey of the ONR OLC building, if required. The survey may be to collect and validate floor plans, physical measurements, power capacity, and external ingress/egress factors.

B. Site preparation work done by the contractor under this contract shall conform to applicable federal and industry installation and construction practices. All planned work and code compliance shall be subject to COR review and approval prior to the start of work. The contractor shall provide the tools and test equipment to perform the site survey and site preparation.

3.2 Design and Engineering Services:

A. The contractor shall provide design and engineering services that include location identification of routers, switches, wireless access points, and other equipment, wireless design diagram, topology diagram, Radio Frequency (RF) Spectrum Analysis, documentation showing Access Point placement, and RF Coverage Model showing strength of RF signal.

Additional design drawings showing cable path, hardware and network equipment provided, rack elevation drawings, related software required by ONR and the network to deliver the Wi-Fi solution.

B. The contactor shall make recommendations for the appropriate protocol, traffic filtering, traffic prioritization, performance levels, and network capacity requirements.

C. The contractor shall work with ONR to develop web content block list of sites based on DoD and ONR policy.

3.3 Cabling and Wiring:

A. The contractor shall provide all equipment including cables, wiring, and other materials as needed for the installation services to provide Ethernet and Wi-Fi services.

B. The contractor shall provide required connectivity using appropriate cabling and wiring (communications and electrical)

C. The contractor shall perform all required testing of Cabling and Connecting Hardware meet performance requirements.

3.4 Ethernet and Wi-Fi Provisioning:

A. ONR OLC building Wi-Fi will follow industry standards for commercial

Internet service.

B. The Authorization Boundary is defined as all hardware, software, & firmware, routers, switches, access points (APs), and cabling at the ONR OLC building for Wi-Fi solution in this SOW

C. The contractor shall provide Ethernet and Wi-Fi solutions, operations, and shall be accountable for circuit activation, functionality and performance.

D. The contractor shall provide all labor and all network equipment - Hardware (HW), Software (SW), Licenses, Authorization Boundary, and indoor wireless access point in the deployment of Wi-Fi services including installation, operation, and maintenance of Wi-Fi equipment.

E. ONR defines the demarcation point for the contractor, provides a connection to the site premise router as part of the ONR OLC building Wi-Fi Authorization Boundary.

F. The contractor shall ensure all ONR OLC building Wi-Fi radio frequency transmitters (wireless access points) are certified to operate according to IA specifications Rules and Regulations.

G. All equipment provided to the Government under this contract shall be new and not previously used or refurbished.

H. The contractor shall provide an Access Registration & Approval process portal for users of the Wi-Fi solution.

3.5 Implementation, Management, and Maintenance:

A. The contractor shall provide ONR access to Installation schedule detailing the progress of activities.

B. The contractor shall supply all hardware, firmware and other related software required. Components may include cables, routers, switches, wireless controllers, firewalls, and other devices/materials required.

C. The contractor shall deploy, maintain, and implement changes to the hardware and software within the Authorization Boundary and follow ONR OLC building Wi-Fi change management policies and procedures.

D. The contractor shall perform hardware firmware, software upgrades, deploy patches, and bug fixes within 10 days upon release. It requires implementing updates in coordination and agreement with ONR, testing new releases to resolve security concerns, ensure compatibility, minimize service disruptions, and maintain equipment functionality. Tests results shall be documented and provided to ONR

E. The contractor shall manage network configuration activities to include adding a protocol to network, moving premise equipment (PE), changing addressing, filtering, and traffic prioritization schemes.

F. The contractor shall manage access solutions that use a combination of different services, performance metrics, and disaster recovery.

G. The contractor shall perform backups of configuration data and audit logs for disaster recovery and the audit logs backups for security review purposes.

H. The contractor shall monitor and detect availability, issues, service interruptions including resolving and responding issues

I. The contractor shall develop, implement, and manage comprehensive solutions to meet agency-specific requirements.

1. Access solutions that use a combination of different services for specific agency locations, to meet agency performance metrics for availability and disaster recovery.

2. Transport solutions that distribute traffic over multiple contractor backbone networks to provide redundancy and traffic allocation dynamically.

3. Security solutions required by ONR.

3.6 Monitoring and Reporting Capability:

A. The contractor shall provide ONR a secure web portal dashboard access for monitoring and reporting capability that may include Wi-Fi Authorization Boundary availability, availability for circuit, router, switch, transport service, access point, Quality of Service (QoS), performance, traffic analysis, device utilization, bandwidth, errors, latency, network statistics, links, logs for hardware/software, port, protocol, End-to-End Network views, and so on.

B. The contractor shall provide a tool(s) for tracking inventory to maintain and track circuits, switches, routers, AP (Access Point), auditing, and so on.

4.0 PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS:

Contractor Personnel that require privileged network access to complete the installation of its solution shall have a Secret Security Clearance.

5.0 EQUIPMENT & SERVICES. The Contractor shall list of proposed items/devices/services.

The FAR & DFARS clauses 52.204-23, 52.204-24, 52.204-25, 52.204-26, 52.204-27, 252.204- 7016, 252.204-7017 and 252.204-7018 may apply and restrict the manufacturer or type of products that can be provided. Prior to responding, vendors are strongly encouraged to review these clauses found at https://www.acquisition.gov

Assumptions: 1. Overlay guest Wi-Fi network to be required across 10 floors

2. Wi-Fi coverage estimation is 2000 sq. ft. / AP (50 APs)

3. Two 8-port network switches per floor IDF and one 48-port switch for the MDF (21 switches)

4. 1 year hardware licensing, renewal price determined at time of request

5. 100 mps bandwidth at UTM

6.0 PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE

The PoP for this requirement shall be a One (1)-year base period with four, one (1)-year option periods.

Base Period – One Year Base Period, Year 1

Option Periods: Four 1-Year Options

Option 1, Year 2 Option 2, Year 3 Option 3, Year 4 Option 4, Year 5

The Contractor shall continue performance in emergency or mission essential conditions, if needed.

7.0 DELIVERY

Final inspection and acceptance of all work, performance, reports, and other deliverables shall be performed at the location specified in the service requests.