Request for Info RFI AMD 0001.pdf

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)

FOR

UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND (USTRANSCOM)

Joint Training Program (JTP) Support Services

TRANSCOM25D013 AMD 0001

1. RFI Overview

In 2026, USTRANSCOM plans to have a contract in place for TCJ37 that will provide support services to assist in executing elements of the Joint Training Exercise & Evaluation Program (JTEEP) and the Joint Training System (JTS) as it pertains to the commands JTP. Support services include subject matter expertise (SME), technical and analytical support for all phases of the JTS, JTP, and the Command Joint Lessons Learned Program (JLLP). USTRANSCOM is seeking information about what solutions currently exist in the market and is interested in learning about what information industry may need to scope a logical roadmap to succeed.

This announcement constitutes an RFI for informational and planning purposes only.

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. No contract will be awarded as a result. Industry’s response to the RFI—or lack thereof—will have no impact on the evaluation of responses to any subsequent RFP or Request for Quote (RFQ) released. The information requested will be used within USTRANSCOM as market research to facilitate decision making (e.g., determining acquisition strategy, small business concerns) and will not be disclosed outside the Government.

Proprietary information submitted shall be appropriately marked. Do not submit confidential information in your response.

**Note** USTRANSCOM will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties responding to this RFI.

1.1. RFI Contact(s)

We have designated the following individual(s) to serve as the official point(s) of contact (POCs) for this RFI. These individual(s) are the only authorized contact(s) permitted to communicate on behalf of USTRANSCOM about this RFI.

Contact information for RFI POC(s):

NAME TITLE OFFICE EMAIL PHONE

Ms. Virginia Bjornson Contract Specialist TCAQ-D Virginia.e.bjornson.civ@mail.mil 618-817-9503 Ms. Megan Gonzalez Contracting Officer TCAQ-D Megan.m.gonzalez4.civ@mail.mil 618-817-9457

1.2. Submission Details

Please submit your response to this RFI via email to the RFI POC(s) identified in Section 1.1. and ensure it is received prior to the due date identified in Section 1.3. If you have any questions about this RFI, please direct them to the RFI POC(s) listed in Section 1.1.

Physical (paper) copies of RFI responses will not be accepted.

1.3. RFI Timeline

The RFI timeline is outlined below. Dates may be modified by USTRANSCOM and posted as an amendment to this RFI.

RFI Released: 30 JUN-2025 RFI One-on-Ones 24 JUL-2025 Responses Due: 16 JUL-2025 by 10:00 am Central Time (CT)

1.4. RFI One-on-One Information (if applicable)

SAVE THE DATE: Week of 21 JUL-2025 (estimated) - Industry One-on-One Sessions via MS TEAMS.

Please follow the instructions below to request a one-on-one session.

Submit your RFI response, including your indication of a request for a one-on-one checked on the RFI Information Sheet, no later than the response due date identified in Section 1.3.

A request does not guarantee a one-on-one session. The first 20 RFI responses received (that include a request for one-on-one) will be allocated a 15 minute session with the requirements team. The date of the sessions, number of one-on-one sessions, and time constraints may be adjusted due to the number of requests.

2. Background Information

USTRANSCOM, located at Scott Air Force Base (SAFB), IL, is one of eleven Unified Combatant Commands (CCMD) that provide operational control for the United States’ combat forces. USTRANSCOM’s mission is to develop and direct the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise (JDDE) to globally project strategic national security capabilities; accurately sense the operating environment; provide end-to-end distribution process visibility; and responsive support of joint, US Government and Secretary of Defense-approved multinational and non-governmental logistical requirements. In January 1993, Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 5158.4 tasked the USTRANSCOM Commander as the single manager of the Defense Transportation System to oversee defense common-user transportation assets. USTRANSCOM conducts globally integrated mobility operations, leads to the broader JDDE, and provides enabling capabilities to project and sustain the Joint Force in support of national objectives. One of the key responsibilities is to improve the overall efficiency and interoperability of distribution related activities - deployment, sustainment, and redeployment support during peace and war.

An important functional requirement of this responsibility is the integration of the Transportation Component Commands (TCC) of Air Mobility Command (AMC), Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), and Military Sealift Command (MSC) and the Subordinate Command Joint Enabling Capabilities Command (JECC).

USTRANSCOM’s Joint Training and Readiness Division (TCJ37), Operations and Plans Directorate, conducts joint training to ensure readiness of individuals, staff, and joint forces to accomplish assigned missions.

2.1. Scope of the Requirement

USTRANSCOM TCJ37 requires contract support services to assist in executing elements of the JTEEP and the JTS as it pertains to the command’s JTP. Support Services include subject matter expertise (SME), technical and analytical support for all phases of the JTS, JTP, and the Command Joint Lessons Learned Program (JLLP).

Services also provide support to USTRANSCOM sponsored joint exercises as well as Joint Staff (JS), other CCMD exercises which USTRANSCOM is supporting to include management and training of modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities development and Information Systems support.

2.2. Place of Performance

Services shall be performed both on-site at SAFB, IL, Exercise Temporary Duty Locations, and may be necessary at the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) site at various locations during emergencies, exercises, or as directed by USTRANSCOM leadership.

2.3. Anticipated Award Timeline

The current contract expires 28-FEB-2026. A follow-on contract is anticipated to be awarded on or about 24-NOV-2025.

3. Information Requested

Parties interested in assisting USTRANSCOM with this market research are requested to submit the following information in the format outlined below. The response should be detailed (but no more than five (5) pages). RFI Information Sheet, title pages and cover letter will not count against the page limit. Respondents are highly encouraged to submit a tailored response rather than a generic capability statement to ensure the requested information is provided. Generic capability statements received in response to this RFI will not be reviewed and will not be considered for a one-on-one meeting.

3.1. Company Information

Company Name Unique Entity ID CAGE Code POCs, to include name, title, phone number, and email address This contract is expected to require access to classified information and requires a

Facility Security Clearance (FCL) at the level of Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS- SCI) clearance level. Based on this expectation, does your company currently meet the requirement(s)? If no, provide a brief statement describing how and/or when your company plans to have a clearance? A final determination of required accesses/FCLs will be detailed in any resultant solicitation.

3.2. Business Size

The anticipated North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for this effort is 541614, Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services. The Small Business Administration’s small business size standard for this NAICS is $20M. Based on this NAICS, identify your business size as a LARGE or SMALL business. If a small business, identify any of the following socio-economic categories that apply to your business under this NAICS: Historically Under-utilized Business Zones (known as “HUBZone”), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Veteran-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business, 8(a), Women-Owned, or Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned.

3.3. Who We’re Looking For

USTRANSCOM highly encourages responses from capable businesses of all sizes, including large and small business concerns and all socioeconomic categories. However, it should be noted that small business set-aside opportunities are being considered for the NAICS identified in Section 3.2.

3.4. What We’re Looking For

Interested Parties are invited to provide information on the following subjects of interest, specifically describing your capabilities in successfully executing the following:

Describe your capability to support the policy, plans, procedures, actions, and milestones necessary for efficient conduct of joint training (or commercial equivalent). Include your capability to provide expert advice and support to the Commander/Director for the establishment, revision, and execution of comprehensive, organization-wide JTS (including the four phases of Requirements, Plans, Execution, and Assessment), JTP, and the JLLP functions (including the five phases of Discovery, Validation, Integration, Evaluation, and

Dissemination). Describe your approach to ensuring alignment between training objectives and USTRANSCOM's Joint Mission Essential Tasks, and how you would support the assessment phase to drive continuous improvement.

Describe your capability to perform assigned roles as part of selected Joint

Exercise Planning and Control Groups for Command Post Exercises that include academics coordination, Joint Training Tool support, collection management plans, Exercise Response Cells support with up to 24/7 coverage, and assessment plan development (or commericial equivalent). Include your capability to ensure Training Performance Evaluations are captured for training objectives for USTRANSCOM exercises and converted into an assessment of readiness and mission essential task proficiencies. Also include your capability to provide planning, logistics, fiscal, and site survey support to the USTRANSCOM Field Training Exercises and Combatant Command sponsored Command Post Exercises. Include your approach to managing multiple concurrent exercise support requirements with potentially overlapping timelines.

Describe your capability to assist with technical systems support requirements essential for overall implementation of the USTRANSCOM Joint Training and Education Program including joint readiness exercises supported and/or planned and executed for USTRANSCOM and other Combatant Commands (or commercial equivalent). Include your capability to provide logistics Modeling and Simulations systems support services to USTRANSCOM, including functional support for the exercise program, and system administration and augmentation services for selected command and control systems. Describe your experience with the specific technical systems mentioned in the PWS (DESS, IES, ESMS, JOPES/JPES, etc.) and your approach to staying current with evolving technologies.

Responses to the above three (3) subjects of interest should be part of (and included in) the five

(5) page maximum detailed in Section 3 above.

Provide the following project or contract information for requirements deemed like this effort:

A brief description of the project Contract number Contract type (cost, labor hour, firm fixed price, etc.)

Commercial or Non-Commercial Period of performance Was your company a prime or subcontractor?

Dollar value of the project Scope of the portion of the effort your company supported

If your company is an Other Than Small Business concern, have you partnered or subcontracted with small business concerns to provide same or similar services of this requirement?

If there is no direct performance or experience with the above, please explain how you will perform tasks utilizing experienced subcontractors, through a proposed teaming arrangement or hiring qualified personnel.

If your company is a large business, specify whether you partnered or subcontracted with small business concerns to provide the same or similar services as this requirement.

If your company has no direct performance or experience with the above, explain how you will perform tasks utilizing experienced subcontractors through a proposed teaming arrangement or the hiring of qualified personnel.

3.5. Commercial Availability

Any responses/comments in this section are excluded from the RFI Response page limitation.

Commercial Practices. Request responses to the following questions as they pertain to providing Joint Training Program support.

Is this service available commercially? If so, what commercial solutions can address the requirement?

What applicable industry standards, terms and conditions, regulations, trade journals, or process guides are relevant to the service to be acquired?

What types of contracts are normally used in the commercial marketplace for this type of service (e.g., single-award, multiple-award, firm-fixed price, cost reimbursement, labor hours, time-and-materials)?

What contract length is normally used in the commercial marketplace for this type of service (e.g., base year plus four options)?

What is the recommended pricing structure, and what are the largest cost-drivers for this type of service?

Are there software advancements, industry developments, or innovative solutions to be considered?

What evaluation criteria are typical for use in selecting a contractor to provide this type of service?

Are there any organizational conflict of interest concerns?

Are there technologies the Government should adopt, if feasible, to improve this requirement?

Are there challenges posed to non-incumbent interested parties that should be addressed?

4. Other Important Information

Any responses/comments in this section are excluded from the RFI Response page limitation.

Please list existing contract vehicles available for use in procuring this effort to include Federal Supply Schedules, GSA Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts, DoD Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts (known as “IDIQs”), or any other Government Agency contract vehicles. (This information on available contract vehicles is for market research only and does not preclude your company from responding to this notice.)

Please list any existing contracts you have which could be used to procure this effort.

Provide any other suggestions or considerations to improve this procurement on the RFI Information Sheet.

Please feel free to provide questions and/or comments on the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) (attached), citing any information you feel may improve/innovate this requirement on the RFI information Sheet. Any suggestions or recommendations (including a brief explanation “why?”) for this acquisition or any other information deemed useful to USTRANSCOM. These comments will be utilized when the final PWS and Request for Quote are issued. These comments are excluded from the RFI Response page limitation.

5. Conclusion

USTRANSCOM would like to thank you for taking the time to review this important RFI, and we look forward to reviewing your response.

Virginia Bjornson Megan Gonzalex Contract Specialist Contracting Officer 618-817-9503 618-817-9457 virginia.e.bjornson.civ@mail.mil megan.m.gonzalez4.civ@mail.mil

Attachments:

DRAFT PWS

RFI Information Sheet