Sources Sought - FA2517-20-R-0007.pdf

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Action Code: Sources Sought Reference Number: FA2517-20-R-0007 Description: Space Fence (SF) S-Band Radar Operations and Facility Maintenance (O&M) Response Date: Responses will be accepted up to issuance of official Solicitation Anticipated Award Date: October 2021 Contracting Office Address: 21st Contracting Squadron 135 Dover Street, Peterson Air Force Base (PAFB) Colorado 80914

Product Service Code: M1BC – Operation of Radar and Navigational Facility NAICS Code: 517919 – All Other Telecommunications / Radar Station Operations

SUBJECT: FA2517-20-R-0007 Space Fence S-Band Radar O&M

The 21st Contracting Squadron at PAFB is issuing this Sources Sought to conduct market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this non-personal services requirement for 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week (24/7/365) radar O&M for the SF. Responses from industry are being requested and will be used for market research purposes. Information submitted will be used by the United States Air Force to facilitate acquisition planning and will not be disclosed outside the agency. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this notice or any follow-up information requests.

This notice does not constitute a Request for Proposal and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government for any purpose other than market research. Submission of information in response to this market survey is purely voluntary. Respondents will not be notified of the results of this market research.

NAICS Code: 517919 – All Other Telecommunications / Radar Station Operations The Government anticipates that North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code 517919, with a Small Business Size Standard of $35M will apply; however, no set-aside determination has been made by the Government at this time. The Government is interested in responses from all businesses to include Large Business, Small Business, Small Disadvantaged Businesses, 8(a)s, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, HUB Zone Businesses, and Women-Owned Small Businesses. The Government requests that interested parties respond to this notice and identify their business size status under the identified NAICS code.

Space Fence S-Band Radar O & M

THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AT THIS TIME. The 21st Space Wing under the United States Space Force (USSF), Space Operations Center (SpOC) has been assigned the Space Fence mission and is responsible for operational and organizational (Level 1) maintenance of the S-band radar site described below and Contractor radar operations to be accomplished through this O&M contract. 21st Contracting Squadron at PAFB Colorado seeks potential sources to provide 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week (24/7/365) O&M services for the SF.

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The Space Fence is a second-generation ground based space surveillance system of S-band radars, strengthening U.S. space superiority through improved Space Domain Awareness (SDA). The SF enhances the Space Surveillance network capabilities to detect, track, and characterize objects in Space to support the production actionable information to be used at all levels of warfare and in a range of military operations for planning and execution with the Space Domain. SF radar capabilities provide accurate, timely metrics and characterization data to the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC), Vandenberg AFB to support maintenance of the satellite catalog, as well as detection and processing of space events.

Performance Locations

The performance locations of the contemplated O&M services contract will consist of one operating site, one radar facility site, and one potential future radar facility site. The SF currently operates at a SECRET level with the potential to require TOP SECRET clearance in the future. For physical security requirements, the SF Radar Site is designated as Protection Level (PL) 3 and the SF Operations Center (SOC) is designated PL-4. All contractor personnel at each site shall at a minimum hold secret security clearances.

• The SOC is currently located at the Reagan Test Site Operations Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA (ROC-H) in a government-leased, commercial facility. The SOC shall accomplish continuous operational activity support including radar monitoring, controlling, tasking, and data processing IAW Combined Special Operations Center (CSpOC), 18 SPCS, and National Space Defense Center (NSDC) taskings. Additionally, the SOC operators shall develop and update tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and provide updates to TOs within their standard on-duty schedule. Contractor personnel at the SOC will remotely operate the SF Radar Site (see description below) to gather pertinent information, which is then communicated to the Command and Control (C2) Centers using Net-Centric Services via the DoD Information Network (DoDIN).

• The SF S-Band Radar Site is located Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS) at the U.S. Army Garrison – Kwajalein Atoll (USAG-KA) in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the Western Pacific, designated as Operating Location “A” (OL-A). The SF Radar Site at OL-A will normally be operated remotely by the Contractor personnel at the SOC in an uncued surveillance mode with the capability to tactically react to support visibility of space events and threats. The SF Radar Site at OL-A will require Level I O&M of the following facilities:

transmit array, receive array, common services facility operations facility, and a liquid cooling system with chillers and two calibration towers.

Level I maintenance includes, but is not limited to, the systematic, timely, and periodic inspection and servicing of equipment which results in elimination of hazard to life and property, includes maximum reliability of equipment, and creates the minimum number of major and costly repair jobs, and produces the optimum utilization of equipment throughout its serviceable life. These tasks are predominately removal of Line Replaceable Units (LRU) identified as failed by the Health Monitoring System (HMS) or Facilities Monitoring and Control System (FMCS) and replaced by an LRU from the on-site inventory. The maintained equipment also includes the transmit and receive antennas, Digital Processor Group, FA251720R0007 Page 3

Timing/Frequency Reference Group, Calibration Group, Mission System Suite, Net-Centric systems and facilities, Radome Pressurization System, Liquid Cooling System, and Array Power Distribution System.

Power for the radar equipment at the OL-A will be provided by the Army host garrison. All operations and sustainment for the power plant and annex will be the responsibility of the host and is not contemplated to be part of this O&M contract.

In the event of contingencies or if the SOC becomes unavailable, control of the Radar Site will be transferred from the SOC to the OL-A on-site contractor personnel to accomplish limited operational mission tasks. Limited mission tasking includes, but is not limited to responding to C2 taskings (voice or message), Positive/Negative reporting for high interest objects, initiation/management of Black Box recording, and operational reporting (Operations Capability (OPSCAP), Operations Reporting (OPREP), and Situational Reporting (SITREP)).

Radar Site OL-A Operators shall be trained to perform these duties and shall hold the proper secret level security clearances.

• Another potential SF Radar Site (location not yet determined) is under consideration and may be built while this contract is in force. The Air Force has no additional information regarding this site at this time. A single contract resulting from this Sources Sought is anticipated to include an Option to add O&M support for that potential radar site. However, if such support services become necessary within the period of performance of the contract, that O&M requirement price will be negotiated at the time of Option exercise and will not be pre-priced at award.

The Government will consider any submitted information in order to ascertain potential Industry capacity to:

1) provide services consistent in scope and scale with those described in this notice;

2) secure corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements;

3) implement a successful project management plan; and

4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

Response.

Interested sources should complete the Sources Sought Matrix, attaching up to two (2) additional pages if necessary, and email the responses to Kim Limón, Lead Contracting Officer, at kim.limon@us.af.mil with a copy to Diana Cramer, Contracting Officer, at diana.cramer.1@us.af.mil The contracting officers are the only Government authorized points of contact for this Sources Sought; all correspondence must be directed only to them.

Responses will be accepted until an official Request for Proposal is posted for this Sources Sought.

Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

mailto:kim.limon@us.af.mil mailto:diana.cramer.1@us.af.mil

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Primary Contact:

Kim Limón Lead Contracting Officer

21 CONS/PKD

kim.limon@us.af.mil

Alternate Contact:

Diana Cramer Contracting Officer

21 CONS/PKD

diana.cramer.1@us.af.mil

For additional information on the Space Fence System, please consider the following publications.

https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/space-fence https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/396011.pdf https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.html https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2019/12/11/a-new-radar-to-track-space-objects-is-almost-ready/ https://www.airforcemag.com/space-fence-starts-trial-period-following-initial-tests/

The following clause applies to this notice:

5352.201-9101 Ombudsman (OCT 2019)

(a) An ombudsman has been appointed to hear and facilitate the resolution of concerns from offerors, potential offerors, and others for this acquisition. When requested, the ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern. The existence of the ombudsman does not affect the authority of the program manager, contracting officer, or source selection official. Further, the ombudsman does not participate in the evaluation of proposals, the source selection process, or the adjudication of protests or formal contract disputes. The ombudsman may refer the interested party to another official who can resolve the concern.

(b) Before consulting with an ombudsman, interested parties must first address their concerns, issues, disagreements, and/or recommendations to the contracting officer for resolution. Consulting an ombudsman does not alter or postpone the timelines for any other processes (e.g., agency level bid protests, GAO bid protests, requests for debriefings, employee-employer actions, contests of OMB Circular A-76 competition performance decisions).

(c) If resolution cannot be made by the contracting officer, the interested party may contact the ombudsman, AFICC/KS SCO, 150 Vandenberg Street, Peterson AFB CO 80914, (P) 719-554-5300,

(F) 719-554-5299, aficc.ks.wf@us.af.mil. Concerns, issues, disagreements, and recommendations that cannot be resolved at the Center/MAJCOM/DRU/SMC ombudsman level, may be brought by the interested party for further consideration to the Air Force ombudsman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (ADAS) (Contracting), SAF/AQC, 1060 Air Force Pentagon, Washington DC 20330-1060, phone number (571) 256-2395, facsimile number (571) 256-2431.

(d) The ombudsman has no authority to render a decision that binds the agency.

(e) Do not contact the ombudsman to request copies of the solicitation, verify offer due date, or clarify technical requirements. Such inquiries shall be directed to the contracting officer. (End of clause) mailto:kim.limon@us.af.mil mailto:diana.cramer.1@us.af.mil https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/space-fence https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/396011.pdf https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/space-fence.html https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2019/12/11/a-new-radar-to-track-space-objects-is-almost-ready/ https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2019/12/11/a-new-radar-to-track-space-objects-is-almost-ready/ https://www.airforcemag.com/space-fence-starts-trial-period-following-initial-tests/ mailto:aficc.ks.wf@us.af.mil

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Contractor Business Name:

Primary Point of Contact:

Address:

Email:

Phone:

Cage Code - Size:

NAICS Code(s):

S-Band Radar Operations and Maintenance, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands :

Operations: Site operators/maintainers (O/M) at shall respond to limited operational mission tasks. Limited Mission tasking includes but not limited to responding to Combined Space Operations Command (CSpOC) tasking (voice or message), Positive/Negative reporting for high interest objects, initiation/management of Black Box recording, and operational reporting (OPSCAP, OPREP, SITREP). Sensor site O/M will be trained to perform these duties and will hold the proper security clearances.

Maintenance: Preventative maintenance activities IAW technical manuals/technical orders, manufacturers publications and established commercial standards and practices. Tasks are predominately removal of Line Replaceable Units (LRU) identified as failed by the Health Monitoring System (HMS) or Facilities Monitoring and Control System (FMCS) and replaced with LRU from on-site inventory. The PMP includes the transmit and receive antennas, Digital Processor Group, Timing/Frequency Reference Group, Calibration Group, Mission System Suite, Net-Centric systems and facilities, Radome Pressurization System, Liquid Cooling System, and Array Power Distribution System.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services at a foreign remote location. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services at a foreign remote location. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

SPACE FENCE S-BAND RADAR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE MARKET RESEARCH

*Please note: The only authorized Points of Contact for this requirement are:

Kim Limón at kim.limon@us.af.mil or Diana Cramer at diana.cramer.1@us.af.mil.

Reference Number: FA2517-20-R-0007

Please provide answers to all of the questions below. If additional pages are required, provide as an attachment. Additional pages limitation: 2 (two)

A. TECHNICAL SKILLS - All responses should be given as they relate to the requirements described below and in the Sources Sought

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

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Remote Operations and Maintenance:

Operations: Responsible for continuous remote operation of the SF S-Band Radar on Kwajalein Atoll. Operational activity support to include, but not limited to, development/updates of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Technical Orders (TO), within their standard on-duty schedule. Communications with 18 Space Control Squadron (SPCS) personnel at either/both the CSpOC and Distributed Space Control Center-Dahlgren (DSC2- D), as well as other authorized users (e.g., NASIC), concerning all Space Domain Awareness (SDA) mission operations.

Maintenance: Perform hardware and software maintenance, monitor system status for problem alerts, analyze alerts for source and resolution, and perform system administration including backups, maintaining the user keys and updating crypto keys.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Mission System Maintenance Management: Ensure Mission Systems are serviceable, safely operable, and properly configured to meet mission requirements and system readiness.

Plan, schedule, direct, organize, coordinate, control, document, report, and execute all actions necessary to maintain Mission System equipment operability and availability. Perform inspections, repairs, modifications, analyses, and other maintenance related tasks. Maintain logs, records, inspection forms and Maintenance Information Systems (MIS) reflecting equipment status, inspections, and maintenance performed.

Ensure equipment status updates are entered into the IMDS ESR Subsystem. Accurately input all MDC data into IMDS in a near real-time basis.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Communications Operations & Maintenance: Comply with host policies and procedures, enforce Cybersecurity policies, and assist NIPRNet, and SIPRNet Det Service Providers, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and Secure Digital Information Network (SDIN) with circuit troubleshooting functions as needed. Manage, handle, control, and safeguard COMSEC material, equipment, and local element in accordance with Air Force policy and Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) Operating Account Manager (KOAM) guidance.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Subcontractor I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply:

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Industrial, Physical, and Operational Security: Operate, maintain, and safeguard assets, information, and Protection Level (PL) resources at the SF sites. The Contactor shall implement and perform all required industrial/information security functions and actions IAW the certified DD Form 254 and DoD 5220.22-M.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Knowledge Management and Operations:

Management: The deliberate and systematic coordination of an organization’s people, technology, processes, and organizational structure in order to add value through reuse and innovation. This is achieved through the promotion of creating, sharing, and applying knowledge as well as through the feeding of valuable lessons learned and best practices into corporate memory in order to foster continued organizational learning.

Operations: Perform Records Management requirements, forward Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) requests to appropriate channel, and manage PA and For Official Use Only (FOUO) records

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Contract Transition: The Government shall define the contract transition period. Develop and provide a Transition Plan to the Contracting Officer (CO) and Government Program Manager. The Transition Plan must address all actions necessary to ensure a seamless transition. Coordinate with the Incumbent, the AF Transition Team (AFTT), and the CO, before any transition efforts begin. Identify any conflicts to the CO. Perform a smooth and orderly transition with all parties to include the Successor, the Incumbent, and the AFTT while ensuring continued service.

Complete all activities necessary to ensure a successful transition.

a. As a prime contractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

b. As a subcontractor, I have performed these services. Yes No CONUS OCONUS Yes No

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: PRIME

I (PRIME) could provide past performance to validate my answer

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply: Subcontractor

I (SUB) could provide past performance to validate my answer

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Question

1. Would you submit an Offer as a Prime or Subcontractor?

1a. Do you have a teaming arrangement?

2. Please provide any information related to small business subcontracting opportunities. Information submitted by the respondents to this RFI is strictly voluntary. The Government will use this information as part of our on-going market research.

3. The Government anticipates this effort to fall under NAICS Code 517919 - All Other Telecommunications based on the index entry: Radar Station Operations. Is there another NAICS code industry believes is more applicable? If so, please provide that code and rationale.

B. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE - PROJECT SIZE AND

COMPLEXITY

I. Manage, Operate, Maintain, and Provide Logistical and General Support Services similar to the work in the Space Fence O&M Sources Sought with a value greater than $2M but less than $10M annually?

Yes No DoD AF CONUS OCONUS

II. Manage, Operate, Maintain, and Provide Logistical and General Support Services similar to the work in the Space Fence O&M Sources Sought with a value greater than $10M annually?

Yes No DoD AF CONUS OCONUS

III. If you answered yes, did the contract(s) have a CPARS? If yes, provide the FULL contract number, total value, and contact information for the Administering or Procuring Contracting Officer or the Contracting Officer's Representative on an attachment.

Yes No DoD AF CONUS OCONUS

Circle/Shade Answer(s)That Apply:

Were these services provided for DoD (to include a different branch of service), AF or Both?

Location of these services

Response