UNO IDIQ Survey 20240502.pdf

MARKET RESEARCH SURVEY

As acquisition lead for Army’s Unified Network Operations (UNO)1 capability, PdM Tactical Cyber Network Operations (TCNO) is issuing this survey to gather information to inform the strategy for a possible Multiple-Award Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (MA IDIQ) FAR-based Contract UNO follow-on procurement to address the UNO requirement.

Currently PdM TCNO is evaluating White Papers to award multiple OTA awards for the competitive prototyping of UNO LTT/UTT (Lower Tier Tactical / Upper Tier Tactical). The upcoming MA IDIQ would have a much broader scope to include Army’s enterprise network operations capabilities.

REQUESTED INFORMATION

I. COMPANY GENERAL INFO

1. Required Company Information

• Organization Name:

• Address:

• CAGE Code/UEID:

• Point of Contact:

• Would you be willing to partner with other offerors for possible teaming arrangements?

Yes No

2. The Government is considering using the primary North American Industrial Classification

System (NAICS) code of 541512 Computer Systems Design Services. The Business Size for this NAICS code is $34 million. Please identify your company’s business size based on this NAICS code.

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

1 Unified Network Operations (UNO) is a critical component of the Army’s network modernization plan, unifying its tactical and enterprise networks into a single unified network. UNO provides a suite of DODINOPS software (SW) applications that are interoperable, standards-based, and shared between the Integrated Enterprise Network (IEN) and Integrated Tactical Network (ITN).

The overarching objective is to standardize DODINOPS tools, enhance simplicity, bridge critical gaps, and ensure affordability and agility in the face of emerging threats.

II. CAPABILITY AREAS

The Government plans to utilize a Multiple Award Contract (MAC) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) and establish multiple vendor pools based on capability areas. Potential requests for Task Order (TO) proposals would be sent to the appropriate vendor pool based upon TO requirements.

3. Which of the following capability areas would you compete for based on corporate experience and past performance?

- Managed Data – providing improved data management capabilities to enhance the commander’s ability to utilize data (e.g., existing/evolving AI and ML apps and capabilities) by leveraging data mesh principles to flatten and simplify the Army's data architecture, streamline data product sharing across mission partners, and support data-driven decision making at greater speed and scale.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

(please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

• What estimated percentage of work would your company potentially subcontract to small business(es) in this area? ________

- ICAM Implementation – establishing varying levels of authentication and access control while providing a secure and trusted environment where any Person Entity (PE) or Non-Person Entity (NPE) can access all authorized resources (including devices, applications, services, and data) from any place and at any time, while also letting the administrator know who and what is accessing those resources.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

(please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Tactical NetOps – providing NetOps solutions to plan, manage, and secure Army's tactical networks at Division and below.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Enterprise NetOps – providing NetOps solutions to plan, manage, and secure Army's enterprise networks (e.g., installation networks, enterprise centers); standardizing network architectures and network components.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Existing SW Adaptation – preparing software applications for integration into an architecture (e.g., adapting Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to Application Programmatic Interfaces (APIs), converting an existing API to a desired API).

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Software Integration – maintaining mission systems composed of a mix of Commercial off-the shelf / Government off-the shelf (COTS / GOTS) Hardware / software architectures and incorporating new and updated components or software from multiple vendors while ensuring the quality, security & resilience of the aggregate software architectures.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Data Analytics – providing tools that analyze large network data sets to identify trends, identify causes for specific events, predict future outcomes, and recommend actions to maximize the performance of Army networks. This includes modelling and simulation, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI); Experience providing tools that automatically generate simplified visual representations of large data sets and tailored to specific audiences to improve the accuracy and speed of their decision-making processes.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- Digital Transformation – delivering digital transformation initiatives that enable the PM to provide increased and rapid value to users while leveraging capabilities such as DevSecOps; assisting organizations to migrate from waterfall environments to agile software development; continuous integration/continuous delivery - CI/CD; Change management; software deployment; observability.

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

- 3rd Party Logistics – developing CECOM-compliant Training Support Packages and Technical

Manuals; experience developing training capabilities that reduce the training burden and empower users to learn to software on their own (e.g., embedded training, training gamification, and providing virtual and/or online training)

• Are you interested / capable to compete as a Prime? OR as a Sub?

• (please only select one choice; if either box is selected, please provide the contract # and

PWS/SOW for that contract; if you were a subcontractor, please provide the subcontract

PWS/SOW)

• What NAICS Code do you recommend for this capability area? ________ o What is your Business Size for your recommended NAICS?

- Other than Small Business Concern

- Small Business (SB) Concern

- 8(a)

- Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)

- Woman-Owned Small Business

- Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)

- Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

4. If your company has Network Operations capability(ies) or product(s) (not listed in Question 3) that can be used as an application(s), micro service, or add on tool(s), briefly describe the tool(s) and its use? (maximum 25 words)

- What estimated percentage of the capability(ies) in question 4 above would your company potentially subcontract to small business(es)? ___________________

III. ON-RAMP/OFF-RAMP

The Government is analyzing options to on- and off-ramp companies throughout the period of performance of this contract effort. On-ramping new vendors supports innovation of technologies to keep up with technological advancements. On-ramping can also allow for refinement of contract approach including increasing small businesses participation. Off-ramping provides Government the flexibility to remove vendors from respective MAC vendor pool(s).

5. Has your company had a MAC IDIQ award that, during its performance period, the Government had the flexibility to add vendors and remove vendors without Termination for Convenience?

Yes No

6. What is your recommended frequency for on-ramping new vendors?

- 12 months

- 18 months

- 24 months

- 30 months

- 36 months

7. What is your recommended frequency for off-ramping existing vendors?

- 12 months

- 18 months

- 24 months

- 30 months

- 36 months