PACAF C5ISRO II - RFI.docx

Date: September 22, 2021

Project Title: Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Operations (C5ISRO) II

Contracting Office: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Contracting Division (9QFAC), Pacific Rim Region (R9)

SECTION 1: RFI PURPOSE AND REQUESTED INFORMATION

THIS NOTICE IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. This notice is for informational and planning purposes only and is a market research tool to determine the availability and adequacy of potential business sources prior to determining the method of acquisition and possible issuance of a Request for Proposal including the use of any small business programs. The Government is not obligated to and will not pay for any information received from potential sources as a result of response to this Sources Sought Notice. This notice does not constitute a solicitation for bids and proposals and is not to be construed as a commitment to the Government. The information provided herein is subject to change and in no way binds the Government to solicit for or award a contract. Unless otherwise stated herein, no solicitation regarding this announcement is available. Requests for the same will be disregarded. If a solicitation is released, it will be synopsized in SAM.Gov. The Government will not pay for any materials provided in response to this synopsis, and submittals will not be returned to the sender.

Requested Information: For your reference a more detailed project scope and objectives is provided in Section 2 of this Sources Sought. Please submit your response to this notice outlining your business name, DUNS number, socio-economic status in addition to the nine project related items below. Limit your response to 20 pages. Please do not submit marketing brochures or generic literature. This will most likely result in your firm not appearing to be a capable source.

1. Describe relevant projects where you supported a dynamic mission that required capability to rapidly respond with required resources to execute short fused specialized services requirements across a large geographic region.

2. Demonstrate your capability and previous success to transition/phase-in (recruit, train, and transition) in process work for a complex contract across a large geographic region within 30 calendar days after award.

3. Demonstrate working knowledge and experience to ensure the Combat Air Intelligence Systems (CAIS) unit-level intelligence and Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Operations (C5ISRO) applications and systems, such as, but not limited to, UL-C2/Intelligence, Gale Lite, Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS), Enhanced Geospatial Library (eGPL) are kept operational and maintained.

4. Demonstrate ability to provide project management and specialized services for major projects in support of Air Force Distributed Common Ground Stations at the DGS-3 and DGS-5, and force and unit-level ISR units across PACAF. This includes but is not limited to, SCI facility enhancement & ancillary services; facilitating development of a datacenter; expanding analysis center capabilities; deploying a modular SCI facility; developing, installing, and maintaining audiovisual system(s); and installing tactical classified and intelligence networks across the theater.

5. Demonstrate working knowledge and experience to ensure Air Operations Center Weapon System applications and systems and other C2 and Intel systems that share data with the AOC WS systems and applications such as, but not limited to, the Global Command and Control System – Joint (I3), Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) force level, and Master Air Attack Planning Tool Kit (MAAPTK) are kept operational and maintained.

6. Demonstrate working knowledge and experience in operating and managing a datacenter with a hybrid of physical and virtual servers, to include but not limited to, the management of the virtual environment, system maintenance, troubleshooting, installation, and removal.

7. Demonstrate working knowledge and experience in the installation, configuration, integration, operations, maintenance, and enhancement to the tactical datalink network. Must also demonstrate a working knowledge and experience with multi tactical datalink networks to include joint service operations and coalition operations.

8. Demonstrate your ability and previous success recruiting, hiring, and retaining (minimal turnover) highly qualified and experienced Subject Matter Experts across a large geographical region.

9. Demonstrate your ability and previous experience to manage multi-faceted program consisting of multiple functional mission areas and priorities, ensuring projects are completed on time, within project budget, at the required quality.

10. Demonstrate your ability and previous experience in establishing a shipping/receiving warehouse, knowledge of Intelligence Community, Department of Defense (DoD), and US Air Force shipping requirements, packaging, transporting, custody, transfer and secure storage of property.

The Government requests that interested offerors submit an electronic response in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat format. All responses must be unclassified and limited to 20 pages. Responsible sources having proven operational experience of similar scope as detailed above may submit their white paper, via e-mail to Dan Thiel at daniel.thiel@gsa.gov with a courtesy copy (cc:) to Kelly Griego at kelly.griego@gsa.gov, no later than close of business 4 Oct 2021. Responses received after this date and time will not be reviewed.

SECTION 2: PROJECT SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The United States Government (USG) has requirement for a Contractor to provide information technology (IT), technical, engineering, cyber, security, logistics and intelligence analytic services in support of Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Operations (C5ISRO) activities for Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) missions at operational, proposed, and deployed-to/from sites in the Pacific Area of Responsibility (AOR), and at sites and units upon which PACAF depends for reach-back and support. The Contractor is subject to permanent or temporary assignments as necessary to meet the missions and objectives of PACAF, military departments, and DoD agencies in support of the US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). Future C5ISRO services will be added in support of other installations, as required to support the USINDOPACOM/PACAF mission.

C5ISRO Background/Current Contract Environment PACAF’s C5ISRO activities are conducted by U.S. Government personnel and Contractors using classified information systems that involve (a) intelligence activities, (b) cryptographic activities related to national security, (c) command and control of military forces, and (d) equipment that is an integral part of weapon or weapons system(s) and are critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions. PACAF’s C5ISRO systems to be supported are National Security Systems as defined in FAR 39.002 and in 40 USC § 11103.

The operational C5ISRO systems throughout the USINDOPACOM/PACAF AOR have evolved as a result of previous in-theater-unique systems development, rapid prototyping, restructuring of theater forces, evolving threats, new and increased requirements for joint service interoperability, coalition warfare, and recent budget constraints by the DoD. HQ PACAF is the primary customer of this contract. Functional area funding/program managers determine their requirements, prepare supporting documentation, and purchase requests. The C5ISRO systems supporting these intelligence and operations requirements are engineered, tested, and fielded by HQ PACAF to meet the specific mission requirements for each Numbered Air Force (NAF), Air Operations Center, and Wing. In turn, each unit is responsible for day-to-day system maintenance and continuity of operations.

Extensive C5ISRO systems are presently operational within PACAF at locations across the Pacific theater, CONUS sites, and by exception other worldwide locations. These systems and networks include, among others, but are not limited to: Air Operations Center Weapons System (AOC WS); Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS), its legacy systems and its associated sub systems and interfaces; Global Command and Control System – Joint and I3 (GCCS-J and GCCS-I3) and its associated sub systems and interfaces; Unit-Level Command and Control Intelligence (UL-C2/Intel) systems; Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS); combat intelligence systems and their associated sub systems and interfaces; Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET), Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNET), and other classified networks.

C5ISRO Objectives A) Intelligence Support Services consists of providing expertise:

1) To ensure the Combat Air Intelligence Systems (CAIS) unit-level intelligence (ULI) and C5ISRO applications and systems, such as, but not limited to, Unit-Level Command and Control (UL-C2) Intelligence, Gale Lite, JWICS, Enhanced Geospatial Library (eGPL) are kept operational and maintained. These systems are unit-level systems and operate at the Secret and/or Top Secret (TS) Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) classification levels. Unit-level systems are primarily in the Operations Support Squadrons (OSSs). Contractor will operate and manage a consolidated logistics support center on Oahu, Hawaii, ensure equipment and bench stock is expedited securely to the OSSs and other intelligence and operational units. As required, diagnosis of systems can be conducted from JBPH-H, HI and troubleshooting instructions relayed to on-site Contractor personnel across the PACAF Area of Responsibility (AOR). Contractor must staff sufficiently mission-essential trained personnel cleared up to TS/SCI, including special access programs (SAPs), as required throughout the theater. Special Technical Operations (STO) or SAPs in the U.S. Federal Government are security protocols that provide highly classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that exceed those for regular (collateral) classified information. SAPs can range from black projects to routine, but especially sensitive operations, such as COMSEC maintenance or weapon systems support. In addition to classified handling controls, a SAP may impose more stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements, specialized non-disclosure agreements, special terminology or markings, exclusion from standard contract investigations (carve-outs), and centralized billet systems. Within the DoD, SAP is also known as "SAR" by the mandatory Special Access Required (SAR) markings.

2) To provide project management and specialized services for major projects in support of AF Distributed Common Ground System for the DGS-3 and DGS-5, and force and unit-level ISR units across the entire PACAF Theater. Past examples of major projects are not limited to, SCI facility expansion/renovations; designing and installing a datacenter; expanding an analysis center; deploying a modular SCI facility; designing, installing, and maintaining an audiovisual system(s); and installing tactical classified and intelligence networks across the theater.

B) Air Operations Support consists of providing expertise ensuring:

1) To ensure existing theater and airbase unit command and control (C2) systems are kept and maintained. Operational and maintained include, but is not limited to, system/application testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrade, installation, and removal. Examples of such systems include, but are not limited to these systems, sub systems, and peripheral systems and interfaces:

Global Command and Control System-Joint and I3 (GCCS-J and GCCS-I3) AOC Systems/Applications

2) Future theater and airbase unit C2 capabilities, their planning and resourcing;

3) AOC and Air Force Forces (AFFOR) organizations, staffs, C2 of forces across a theater, C2 of airbase and theater logistics, intelligence tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination, and systems upon which to accomplish this, become trained, stressed, and ready in simulated wartime scenarios via the Combatant Commander (CCDR) and other exercises and war gaming modeling and simulation that are not covered under other requirements.

C) PACAF C5ISRO logistics activities also consist of rapid, lean, and just-in-time acquisition of both:

1) Specialized technical services plus its deployment and;

2) Materiel, its swift packing, transportation, custody, transfer, secure storage, and accountable delivery to Government custody across the USINDOPACOM AOR with the least amount of Government personnel attention and involvement.

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