RFQ BA114 15 Sep .pdf

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

MARINE CORPS INSTALLATIONS NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO

2010 HENDERSON ROAD

QUANTICO VIRGINIA 22134 5001

IN REPLY REFER TO:

CONT

15 September 2021

From: Teri Bischof, Contracting Specialist, Regional Contracting Office

Subject: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation for EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance (BA114)

Date: 15 September 2021

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart

12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. This Request for

Quotation (RFQ) for a commercial items/service is prepared in accordance with the format in Federal

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice.

Prospective awardees must be registered in System for Award Management (SAMs) prior to invoicing.

Information on registering in SAMs may be obtained (866) 606-8220 or via the internet at https://www.sam.gov.

The provisions FAR 52.212-1 Instruction to Offerors – Commercial Items and FAR 52.212-3 Offeror

Representations and Certifications- Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The clause FAR 52.212-4

Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial Items and 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required To

Implement Statutes Or Executive Orders - Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The contractor shall comply with all Federal, State, and Local regulations

This acquisition is 100% set-aside for small business concerns; NAICS code 511210.

RFQ for Quotation on the following items: Refer to Statement of Work.

Please insert pricing in table below.

BASE YEAR: Period of Performance (est): 29 September 2021 thru 28 September 2022

CLIN

ITEM DESCRIPTION UNIT TOTAL PRICE

0001 EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance 12 months $

OPTION YEAR ONE (1): Period of Performance: 29 September 2022 thru 28 September 2023

1001 EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance 12 months $

OPTION YEAR TWO (2): Period of Performance: 29 September 2023 thru 28 September 2024

2001 EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance 12 months $ https://www.sam.gov/

OPTION YEAR THREE (3): Period of Performance: 29 September 2024 thru 28 September 2025

3001 EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance 12 months $

OPTION YEAR FOUR (4): Period of Performance: 29 September 2025 thru 28 September 2026

4001 EnCase Forensic V.8 Software Maintenance 12 months $

Please provide FOB Destination pricing FOR the following address:

Delivery Address:

United States Marine Corps

1555 South Gate Road, Bldg. 28

Arlington, VA 22214

The closing date and time for quote submission is: 22 September 2021, 10:00am, EST. Offers received after the date of 22 September 2021, 10:00am, EST time will be considered non-responsive and will not be given further consideration.

Please provide all submissions to Government Point of Contact: Teri Bischof, teri.bischof@usmc.mil.

All contractors must comply with the requirement listed above for this request. Failure to comply may result in disqualification. This will be a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract.

This acquisition will utilize Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procedures in accordance with FAR

15.101-2. Technical tradeoff will not be made and no additional credit will be given for exceeding acceptability.

Award will be made to the acceptable offeror with the lowest evaluated price, which is deemed responsible in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and whose quote conforms to the solicitation requirements.

The solicitation requirements include all stated terms, conditions, representation and certifications, and other information required by this solicitation. The Government reserves the right to award without discussions.

Therefore, each initial offer should contain the offeror’s best terms from a price and technical standpoint.

The Government may reject any quote that is evaluated to be unrealistic in terms of requirements, contract terms and conditions, or an unrealistically high or low price when compared to Government estimates, such that the quote is deemed to reflect an inherent lack of competence or failure to comprehend the complexity and or risk.

Only those quotes determined to be technically acceptable will be considered for award. Then, price will be evaluated and the quotes will be listed from lowest to highest price based on the total evaluated price and technical acceptability. Award will be made to the lowest evaluated priced quote meeting the acceptability standards.

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TECHNICAL EVALUATION STANDARD:

The contractor shall address the following two factors:

1. Factor 1 – Technical Capability – Offeror shall clearly demonstrate its approach to technical ability to meet the requirements of the items based on meeting the requirements of the RFQ, quantity, quality and timeliness of delivery.

2. Factor 2 – Price – Offeror shall provide sufficient price information to allow the contracting officer to determine the completeness and reasonableness of the offerors prices.

AWARD DECISION: The award decisions will be made as follows:

(1) Step One – Determine Technical Acceptability. The technical evaluation, Factor 1, stated above, will assess the offerors capability to satisfy the Government’s requirement. The Technical Capability factor will receive a rating of acceptable and unacceptable. If any factor is rated unacceptable, the entire quote is rendered technically unacceptable, and the quote will be removed from the competitive range.

Rating Description

Acceptable Quote clearly meets the minimum requirements of the solicitation. Only those quotes determined acceptable will be considered for award.

Unacceptable Quote does not clearly meet the minimum requirements of the solicitation.

Quotes with an unacceptable rating will not be considered for award.

Table A-1

(2) Step Two – Evaluate Price. The offeror’s Price quote will be evaluated, for award purposes, based upon the total price proposed as annotated under Factor 2 – Price.

(3) Step Three – Award Decision. Award will be made the lowest priced, technically acceptable offeror, subject to a positive responsibility determination in accordance with FAR Part 9 and conformance of the offeror’s quote to the terms and conditions of the solicitation.

DISCLAIMER:

This is a request for the submission of a quote and does not constitute a contract or authorization to begin work.

Nor does an offeror’s submission of a quote constitute a contract or authorize the individual or company to being work. The Contracting Officer is the only person who can legally modify a resulting contract or obligate the

Government for expenditure of funds. Costs shall be incurred by recipients of the solicitation in anticipation of receiving direct reimbursement from the Government.

Only the Contracting Officer has the authority to authorize deviations from the terms and conditions of any resulting contract, including deviations from specifications and requirements. In the event the Contractor does deviate, without written approval of the Contracting Officer, such deviations shall be at the risk of, and any cost related thereto shall be borne by the Contractor. Any matter concerning a change to the scope, prices, costs, terms or conditions of this contract shall be referred to the Contracting Officer.

Please Provide the Following:

1. Tax Identification Number: _____________________

2. Company Registered in WAWF-RA (Wide Area Workflow):_______________

If Not, Will Your Company Register? ________________

3. Company Registered In System for Award Management (SAM):_______________

If Yes, What Is Your DUNS# and/or Cage Code: _______________

If No, Will You Register: ________________

4. Company Considered Small or a Large Business. _______________

5. Delivery Time of Requested Items: ____________. Please show earliest delivery date possible.

6. FOB Cost If Applicable:_______________

A. NOTE: Is Freight (Fob) Included In Price? If Not, Please Indicate Price and Where It’s

Being Originated From: _______________

Discount Terms: ___________

Company Name and Address:

Company Point of Contact: _______________________________________________________

Company Telephone: __________________

Company Facsimile: ___________________

The following FAR clauses and provisions apply to this acquisition and can be viewed at http://www.acquisition.gov/far:

52.204-13 SAM MAINTENANCE

52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors

52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications – Commercial Items

(Complete and return with offer unless registered electronically in SAM at http://www.sam.gov/.)

52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions – Commercial Items

52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders –

Commercial Items (The following numbered items apply: (14), (25), (26), (27), (28), (42), and

(55).

52.217-9 Option to Extend the Term of the Contract

52.252-1 Solicitation Provisions Incorporated by Reference

252.203-7000 Requirements Relating to Compensation of Former DOD Officials

252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights.

252.204-7012 Safeguarding of Unclassified Controlled Technical Information

252.232-7003 Electronic Submission of Payment Requests and Receiving Reports

252.232-7006 Wide Area Workflow

252.232-7010 Levies on Contract Payments

252.243-7001 Pricing of Contract Modifications

252.247-7023 Transportation of Supplies by Sea

** Special Invoicing Instructions: Wide Area Work Flow – Receipt and Acceptance (WAWF-RA) **

WAWF-RA is the only method authorized by the United States Marine Corps to electronically process payment requests. Compliance with WAWF-RA is mandatory. Include in each offer a statement acknowledging that you are WAWF-RA compliant. In order to get registered with WAWF-RA, visit https://wawf.eb.mil/. In order to http://www.acquisition.gov/far http://www.sam.gov/

WAWF-RA you must designate an Electronic Business Point of Contact (EB-POC) to serve as the group administrator within you company.

Statement of Work (SOW)

EnCase Forensic v.8 with EnCase Forensic SMS (maintenance)

Services Background

Intelligence Enterprise Management Office (IEMO) is renewing software maintenance for three (3) twelve (12) month EnCase Forensic SMS with four (4) twelve (12) month option years for software on existing architecture.

1.2. Objectives

IEMO is requesting to renew software maintenance on three (3) twelve (12) month EnCase Forensic v.8 licenses with four (4) twelve (12) month option years of maintenance to be used on existing architecture.

The EnCase Forensic v.8 software is used to conduct forensic analysis of system hardware in support of

Incident Response mission responsibilities as identified in Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum

6510.01 B, Cyber Incident Handling Program and NIST Special Publication 800-137, Information

System Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. The software allows IEMO to conduct forensic analysis of system hardware across the three (3) primary supported networks including re-constituting deleted content and making forensic copies of hard drives to allow analysis of hardware without changing content on original drives while supporting evidence chain of custody requirements. The proposed brand name software is identified as one of the leading applications which provide forensic capabilities for the Cyber landscape and will provide a required capability which currently has to be out-sourced.

License Keys for existing licenses: G3002093260, G3002093261, G3002093262

1.3. Scope

The EnCase Forensic v. 8 application allows IEMO to conduct forensic analysis of system hardware across the three (3) primary supports networks including re-constituting deleted content and making forensic copies of hard drives to allow analysis of hardware without changing content on original drives while supporting evidence chain of custody requirements. The proposed brand name software is identified as one of the leading applications which provide forensic capabilities for the Cyber landscape and will provide a required capability which currently has to be out-sourced.

1.4. Ordering Type

Requesting a base for three (3) twelve (12) month EnCase Forensic SMS with four (4) twelve (12) month option year of maintenance.

1.5. Applicable Documents

All specifications for the maintenance terms are outlined in the quote. EnCase Forensic v.8 is publically available through any search engine on the World Wide Web.

1.6. Requirement Points of Contact

Technical support for EnCase Forensic software is through the manufacturer Guidance Software located at the following link: https://www.guidancesoftware.com/support?cmpid=nav_r

Technical government support for IEMO: Scott Turner Phone: TBD, Email: sturner@mcia.osis.gov https://www.guidancesoftware.com/support?cmpid=nav_r

CONTRACTOR REPRESENTATIVE: The contractor shall establish/appoint a single management focal point to address and accomplish the administrative, managerial, and financial aspects of this contract and this person shall serve as the primary interface with the TPOC.

Contractor Representative: TBD; Phone: TBD, Email: TBD

2.0. Special Material Requirements

There is no final inspection process. This continuation for maintenance is for three EnCase Forensic SMS and four (4) twelve (12) month option periods.

3.0. Period of Performance

The period of performance will be a one (1) year twelve (12) month base upon award with four (4) twelve (12) month option years.

4.0. Wide Area Work Flow (WAWF) Instructions

Reference: Contract Clauses Full Text U3 and USMC WAWF Implementation in Section I of the Contract.