REQUEST FOR INFORMATION.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

Title: Digital Publication Delivery System

Notice ID: F5BFLG4122AW01

This Sources Sought/Request for Information is issued for informational purposes and market research only; it does not constitute a solicitation.

The Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), AFRC Contracting Branch, Robins AFB, GA is conducting market research to identify systems capable of providing digital publication delivery of aircrew flight publications for the Air Force’s Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) Program. The

Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for maintaining the readiness and safety of the country's military personnel. As part of this responsibility, the DoD provides aircrew publications, such as flight manuals, checklists, and operating procedures, to military personnel.

These publications are essential for the successful execution of missions and ensuring the safety of our military members. The program aims to provide a clean, secure, and intuitive platform for publication delivery to aircrew and operations members of AFRC.

The capabilities below are minimum requirements:

Cloud hosted

DoD Security Certification Impact Level 5 (IL5)

Single Sign On (SSO) integration

Support for reading standard documents (example: .doc, .xls, .pdf) and S1000D documents, as well as delivery of nonstandard documentation for use with other apps

Support for 25k+ users, 3k documents per user

Mobile Device Management (MDM) agnostic

Operating System/Device agnostic

Secure peer-to-peer file sharing with limited connectivity

Role/assignment-based permissions integrated into all aspects of the app

Delivery of required documents in 15 minutes, all other desired documents in 45 minutes

Ability to get from device Home Screen to emergency procedure in 5 clicks or less

No 3rd party app requirement

Ability to require users to read and acknowledge documents

Compliance status delivered via Application Programming Interface (API)

Allow users to directly annotate on documents without affecting source document

Annotations follow the user to other devices

Annotations are not lost in updates

The proposed North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code is 513210 which has a corresponding size standard of $47.0M.

CAPABILITIES PACKAGE: All interested firms shall submit a capabilities package that explicitly demonstrates their capability to provide the required services. The capabilities package should be brief and concise, yet clearly demonstrate an ability to meet the stated requirements.

The response must not exceed 15 pages. Responses may be submitted electronically to the following e-mail addresses: maripet.beach@us.af.mil and lacey.boyd@us.af.mil. All correspondence sent via email shall contain a subject line that reads "RFI, Digital Publication

Delivery." If this subject line is not included, the email may not get through email filters at

Robins AFB. Filters are designed to delete emails without a subject or with a suspicious subject or attachments. Attachments with files ending in .zip or .exe are not allowable and will be deleted. Ensure only .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xsls or .xls documents are attached to your email. All other attachments may be deleted. The entire response must be contained in a single e-mail that does not exceed 5 megabytes including attachments, if any. RESPONSES ARE DUE NOT

LATER THAN 14 NOVEMBER 2024 BY 4:00 PM EST. This is a request for information seeking capability responses, not a solicitation for proposals. Direct all questions concerning this

SS/RFI to maripet.beach@us.af.mil and lacey.boyd@us.af.mil.

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