PFPA Integrated Security Services - Sources Sought.pdf

Washington Headquarters Services/Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) Sources Sought Notice/Request for Information

Document Type: Sources Sought Number: HQ003421R0011 Project Title: Integrated Security Services (ISS) for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) Sources Sought Post Date: November 3, 2020 Response Date: December 2, 2020 NAICS Code: 561621 - Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) Product Service Code: N063 Installation of Alarm Systems

Minimum Security Requirements:

All submissions *must include verifiable* information about its firm’s ability to comply with the security requirements for this effort. Firms must have Clearance(s) at the time of the proposal submissions.

A Secret clearance will be required for personnel. For some technical areas, a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) will be required. A Top Secret Facility Clearance will also be necessary.

Personnel must hold Clearance(s) at time of award.

Due to the nature of the work, all contractors will be required to have and maintain Clearance(s) during the performance of work. The Government anticipates access to classified data/information up to and including TS/SCI. The TS/SCI work associated with this contract may be performed within Government Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities. If required to be performed at the vendor’s facilities, the contractor will be required to have an accredited Government Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs). Please describe personnel security policies and procedures used to propose personnel with current Secret and Top Secret security clearances with Sensitive Compartmented Information eligibility. In addition, please describe the extent to which those procedures will ensure rapid replacement of individuals, should the need arise.

Personnel:

Contractor personnel must be United States Citizens. The firm should have the ability to provide personnel with education and experience in the following technical areas:

Program Management Complex Security Systems, Integration, Installation and Support Maintenance and Repair Quality Control Logistics Systems Administration

Contracting Office Address: Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate, 4800 Mark Center Drive, Suite 09F09, Alexandria, VA 22350-3400

Source Sought Notice:

To facilitate market research, the Government is looking to identify qualified sources under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 561621, Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) from “all” sources is requested. This Notice seeks industry comments to assist the Government. If you have any comments or find any ambiguities, please provide your information and comment in your response to this notice.

Responses from “all” sources is requested. Other than Small Businesses, Small Businesses, 8(a) Small Businesses, HUBZone Small Businesses, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, Women-Owned Small Businesses and Economically Disadvantaged Women-owned Small Businesses are encouraged to respond.

This Sources Sought Notice is for market research purposes only and is not a request for proposal (RFP) nor does it restrict the Government as to the final acquisition strategy. The Government will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in preparation of a response to this notice.

Background

Since its creation, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) has expanded its mission and now provides force-protection services against a full spectrum of potential threats. Law enforcement is still a major part of the Agency’s charge, but PFPA is responsible for operational security‚ building surveillance‚ crisis prevention‚ consequence management‚ counterintelligence‚ antiterrorism‚ hazardous materials response and explosives‚ information technology, and protecting high-ranking DoD officials. PFPA continues to evolve, making it one of the Nation's premier federal law enforcement organizations.

Protecting those who protect our nation, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s Mission is to Protect and safeguard designated Department of Defense personnel, resources and facilities. Its Vision is to lead the Department of Defense in force protection best practices by professionalizing, standardizing, and integrating services, processes, and systems. Its values are professionalism, integrity, accountability, teamwork, vigilance and service.

Objective/Scope

The Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate (DoD/WHS/AD) is seeking information for potential sources for the Integrated Security Services Contract (ISSC) on behalf of Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), that will provide enterprise security systems and services for DoD facilities in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Pennsylvania. Sites included within the scope of work are approximately 110 Government owned or leased facilities, including the Pentagon Reservation, Mark Center, Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ), and an alternate site in Adam County, PA, totaling over 15 million square feet. These facilities exist in urban, suburban, and remote/austere locations.

The Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Directorate (DoD/WHS/AD) is seeking information from potential sources (both large and small) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Pennsylvania, to support the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) with integrated security services.

PFPA requires an electronic security system integrator in the NCR. This requirement will be to provide System Support, Installation, Maintenance and Repair of these systems. These systems include, but are not limited to access control, intrusion detection, CCTV, physical security information management systems, barriers, and other physical security components.

The systems to be installed, administered, supported, and maintained at these locations include access control, intrusion detection closed circuit television and intelligent video analytics. In addition, it also includes physical security information management, license plate recognition, under vehicle inspection, duress, identity and access management, and biometric and multi-modal authentication. Other areas include computer aided dispatch/records management and other law enforcement applications, mass notification systems, gunfire detection, chemical, biological, and radiological detection and mitigation. In addition, it also includes personnel, vehicle, cargo, and parcel screening, turnstiles, gates, barriers, and fences, network intrusion detection and prevention, security operations center visualization systems, emerging security technologies, and supporting physical and electronic infrastructure.

The current infrastructure to be supported under this requirement includes over 7,000 card readers, 2,000 access control panels, and 3,000 closed circuit television cameras. These systems include a heterogeneous mix of hardware and software manufacturers, versions, networks, age, and physical locations. These systems protect a combined population of over 90,000 personnel across all sites.

Services under this requirement include full lifecycle systems engineering including evaluation, design and development, procurement, installation, configuration, integration, and testing; application administration, operations and maintenance, upgrade, break/fix repair, and systems monitoring; change and configuration management; and information technology and information assurance.

Submission Requirements:

Interested firms should submit their response via email to: whs.mc-alex.ad.mbx.essd-security-solicitation@mail.mil and include a capabilities statement covering experience, staffing, and technical capabilities.

Firms are requested to provide information in their response whether they intend to submit a proposal if an RFP is issued.

The capabilities’ statement should provide information to address the technical areas for Security Support Services identified below. In addition, firms should provide information on their company’s experience by providing information to support how the firm’s recent past performance (last 5 years) is relevant to the technical areas listed including the dollar value, period of performance, size and scope of the firm’s prior contracts. Firm’s need to include their business address, point of contact, CAGE code, DUNS number and small business status.

Task Areas:

Technical Areas for Security Support Services (Please ensure capability statements address the following minimum requirements)

1. Design, integration, installation, and administration of large scale Electronic Security Systems (ESS), including access control systems (ACS) and intrusion detection systems (IDS).

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability with large scale access control systems (ACS) in a campus type environment containing a minimum of 5,000 devices across multiple facilities.

b. Provide information to support firm’s capability to life-cycle replace a large scale access control/intrusion detection system without significant impact to current access control procedures or operational capability.

c. Provide information to support firm’s capability to conduct business analysis and documented operational process improvement for issues relating to electronic security systems containing over 300,000 database records.

2. Design, integration, installation, and administration of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) Systems.

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability with PSIM installation, life-cycle replacement, lab testing and evaluation, interface development, integration, and system support across a heterogeneous mix of electronic security systems at multiple sites.

3. Experience with design, installation, and application administration of networked and non-networked closed circuit television (CCTV) or video surveillance system.

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability to design/install/administer a complex CCTV/Video Surveillance System containing of over 2,000 cameras spread across multiple geographically dispersed sites.

b. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability to effectively maintain, and administer complex multi-tiered recording platforms consisting of over 500 terabytes installed in multiple locations all reporting to a centrally managed location.

c. Provide information to support firm’s ability to administer use of intelligent video analytics for use that includes but is not limited to area monitoring, intrusion detection, and object tracking.

d. Provide information to support firm’s ability to integrate video surveillance system with PSIM

e. Provide information to support firm’s experience in using multiple form of intrusion detection in conjunction with video surveillance to ensure accuracy of detection

4. Provide information to support firm’s preventative Maintenance and Repair (Break-fix) experience in a campus type setting consisting of facilities containing over 10,000 sensor end-points and devices in accordance with manufacturer recommendations.

5. Provide information to support firm’s experience for integrated configuration management and logistics support for large scale electronic and physical security systems.

6. Information Assurance services (Cybersecurity/Risk Management Framework)

a. Provide information to support firm’s ability to conduct Risk Management Framework and/or Cybersecurity procedures resulting in system accreditation

b. Provide a list of relevant software systems for which they have received accreditation and the accrediting standard (RMF or FedRAMP).

7. Technical Design Services

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience in large scale design services for electronic security system installation, upgrade, and life cycle replacement.

b. Provide information to support firm’s experience in Operations Center design/installation.

8. Installation/Project Management services

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability to utilize a lab setting (off-site, contractor owned, managed, maintained) to verify and validate manufacturer capability statements prior to operational implementation at customer site.

b. Provide information to support firm’s experience and capability to effectively manage a yearly average of 150 small scale move/add/change electronic security system projects spread across a variety of facilities located within the National Capital Region (NCR), to include alternate sites in Adams County, PA.

9. Ability to staff/monitor large scale network and system monitoring

a. Provide information to support firm’s experience in monitoring performance and health of electronic security systems.

b. Provide information to support firm’s experience in network security operations, including intrusion detection, prevention, and data loss prevention.

10. Provide information to support firm’s experience with the following systems or sub-systems

a. Software House (CCURE 9000), Version 2.2 or higher

b. Bosch Video Management System, Version 9.0 or higher

c. AMAG Symmetry, Version 7.01 or higher

d. SightLogix, Version10.4 or higher

e. Proximex Surveillint, Version 8.0 or higher, including integrations with the above mentioned sub-systems and CNL IPSecurity Center.

11. Provide information to support firm’s ability and capability to design, construct, and commission ballistic-rated booths, active vehicle barriers, crash rated fencing, and passive barriers.

a. Provide information to support firm’s capability or past performance references

b. Provide information to support firm’s Technical Design Packages that include development of complex use-case scenarios

c. Provide information to support firm’s Commissioning/Testing procedures

12. Provide experience in tracking, maintaining, and updating inventory data of at least 50,000 components to ensure compliance with Defense Property Accountability System requirements.

Response Format:

To facilitate a timely and comprehensive review of all submitted responses, firms should respond using the format requested in this Notice. Any deviation from this format may lead to the rejection of the response.

All interested firms having the experience, skills and capabilities necessary to perform the stated requirements are requested to provide a Capability Statement no more than eight (8) pages maximum. All responses should be single spaced using 12 inch Times New Roman font within an 8.5 by 11 inches page size. A 10-inch font will be accepted for graphics ONLY (i.e. charts, graphs, etc.). Capability response must include the following information:

1) Company name, address, point of contact name, telephone, and email address.

2) CAGE Code and DUNS Number.

3) Business size status (business size/socio-economic category must be submitted to be used).

4) Vendor Facility Clearance, number of Vendor staff members holding a current Secret and Top

Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, and other information demonstrating the Vendor’s ability to satisfy the Security Requirements described above.

5) Documentation that addresses each of the eleven (11) Task areas listed above.

6) A description of Corporate Experience for similar contracts and/or projects accomplished within the last 3 years. The description must include where, when, and for whom each similar contract and/or project was performed and a brief description of each contract and/or project, including the size, scope, dollar value, and period of performance.

7) Firms are asked to provide in their response their GSA Schedules appropriate for this requirement.

In addition, firms need to complete Attachment 1, Integrated Security Systems Checklist, and provide this with their submission. Attachment 1 is not included in the overall page count; however, it should not contain any additional information other than what is to be checked off or answered.

Do not include proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information in your response to this Sources Sought Notice. The Government reserves the right to use any information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate, including using technical information provided by respondents in any resultant solicitation. Responses to this Notice will not be returned.

No hard copy or facsimile submissions will be accepted. Cover letters and extraneous materials (brochures, etc.) will not be considered.

This sources sought notice is for market research purposes only.

Questions concerning the Sources Sought should be submitted via email to the following email address:

whs.mc-alex.ad.mbx.essd-security-solicitation@mail.mil. Telephone calls will not be accepted. Questions should be sent no later than 1:00 PM, Eastern Time on November 17, 2020.

Questions concerning small business should be directed to the WHS Office of Small Business Programs at:

WHS.OSBP@mail.mil.

Due Date for Submission of Responses

Vendors Capability Statements are requested to be submitted by email (no hard copies) no later than 1:00 PM, Eastern Time on December 2, 2020. Submissions after this date will not be considered.

Send your response to the following email address: whs.mc-alex.ad.mbx.essd-security-solicitation@mail.mil.

The email subject line should be titled “Integrated Security Services (ISS) for PFPA HQ003421R0011”

Responses sent to any person or email address other than the email address specified above will not be considered.