ATT0060 Sample Task-Technologies.docx

Work Breakdown Structure – This sample illustrates a notional 3‐level work breakdown structure.

Sample Task #3

Headquarters Command, Information Technology Modernization

This sample task is similar in format to a typical United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC) Task Order. This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) task order. The Background Section includes information about the sample task and is intended to provide sufficient information to the Offerors. The Applicable Documents Section is representative of the documents that would be pertinent to conducting the Task Order work. The Requirements Section contains several products typical for most Task Orders.

In response to this sample task, include a detailed technical approach describing how you will meet the requirements. For this sample task the period of performance (PoP) will be 12 months as that is representative of USAISEC task orders. The Offerors will use January 1, 2027 as a start date for this sample task.

The Offeror shall provide a narrative response describing the Technical Approach, as described in Section 3 of this sample task. The sample task response shall be accompanied by the documents detailed below.

The WBS shall include a minimum of a three-level breakdown and a BOE. The BOE shall include the labor categories and hours required to complete the Sample Task as proposed and the rationale to support the labor estimates. The BOE shall NOT include any labor rates or cost information inclusive of material, travel or other direct costs (ODCs). NOTE: The Quality Control Plan and the Risk Mitigation Plan are included within the Sample Task 30 page limitation. The associated task checklist(s), the WBS and BOE file and the Project Work Schedule file are NOT included in the Sample Task page limitations. A notional work breakdown structure is included to illustrate a sample three-level breakdown.

1. BACKGROUND. USAISEC has a requirement to develop an engineering package as part of an Engineer, Furnish, Install, and Test (EFI&T) effort for a major Headquarters (HQ) command modernization project. The project shall include performing site surveys, developing a System Design Plan (SDP), an Engineering Installation Plan (EIP), a System Acceptance Test (SAT) Plan, and an Installation Schedule. This project will only cover the engineering phase of the effort with furnish, install, and test phases of this effort being covered in a separate task order.

1.1 Complex Details: The HQ facility is located in a 60-acre site overseas. The complex was completed in 2011 and was built to all relevant standards at that point in time. The complex includes a total of three facilities totaling 700,000 square foot. The three separate facilities include: the Command HQ Building, Information System Facility (ISF), and a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC). The ISF contains a Tier III data center, containing unclassified and classified communications equipment areas for Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) Internet Protocol (IP) data systems, secret IP data systems, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) IP systems, and has a state-of-the-art mechanical, electrical, and security systems. The DRC features a Continuity of Operations (COOP) for 300 staff with full data, networking, and voice capabilities with an electrical substation that provides 100% power redundancy to the HQ facility and the ISF. An Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) classified K12 barrier surrounds the entire perimeter and advanced intrusion detection systems.

1.2 HQ Facility Details:

a) The HQ facility has a total of 350,000 square feet;

b) The users, as part of this project, are classified as special Command and Control (C2) users;

c) During this modernization effort all facilities will be fully operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The HQ mission and operations are not to be interrupted;

d) Approximately 1,500 users will occupy the HQ facility;

e) The users in the HQ facility process data and information up to TS/SCI. However, the whole HQ facility is not classified as an open secret storage. Instead, there are several areas within the HQ facility that are designated as Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIFs);

f) The facility includes a 50,000 square feet SCIF with two critical operations areas – a command and control center and a crisis action team;

g) The HQ facility contains: dedicated space for the Commercial Communications Equipment Room (CCER) which demarks Government and the commercial point of presence; the Audio-Visual (A/V) equipment room which includes the A/V control system; the A/V control room; and a HQ’s operations center which includes the command center and crisis action team areas.

1.3 Data Network Characteristics:

a) All users have access to the Non-secure IP Router Network (NIPRNET)

b) Approximately 50 percent of the users have access to Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET);

c) Approximately 5 percent of the users in the facility are intelligence analysts and have access to JWICS and National Security Agency (NSA) network.

1.4 Voice Switch Characteristics:

a) All users have access to commercial and DSN telephone services;

b) Five critical users have precedence capability to the FLASH level;

c) Approximately 20 percent of the users have secure voice access using Defense RED Switch Network (DRSN);

d) The HQ facility will maintain continuous communications with deployed units using tactical and satellite networks;

e) All voice networks are running on Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) voice switches.

1.5 Video Characteristics:

a) The HQ facility contains the following conference rooms:

· Five (5) small conference rooms, with one (1) capable up to secret VTC

· Six (6) medium conference rooms with two (2) capable up to secret VTC and one (1) capable up to top secret VTC

· Three (3) large conference rooms with one (1) capable up to secret VTC

· One (1) executive operations conference room has a large video wall, can hold 400 people, and is capable up to secret VTC

· One (1) Command conference room with the capability of handling top secret

· The A/V control room and the HQ’s Operations Center each contain a large video wall

b) The DRC facility contains one (1) medium conference room up to top secret;

c) All conference rooms are controlled via video control panels within the A/V equipment room and within each conference room. All conference rooms have the ability to communicate with other Commands and organizations. All conference rooms have the ability to connect with all other conference rooms on the complex;

d) All displays are at 720p on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens.

2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS. The most current version of the following documents shall be used.

(As part of the response to this Sample Task Order, the Offeror may consider and list additional references that could also be appropriate for this Sample Task Order.)

2.1 DoDI 8100.04, DoD Unified Capabilities, December 9 2010. http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/810004p.pdf

2.2 DoD Instruction 8510.01, Risk Management Framework (RMF) for DoD Information Technology (IT), 28 July 2017, https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/851001_2014.pdf

2.3 USAISEC Visual Information System Software Design Criteria, March 2018. (ATT004)

2.4 Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) 3-580-01, Telecommunications Interior Infrastructure Planning and Design, June 2016. https://www.wbdg.org/FFC/DOD/UFC/ufc_3_580_01_2016_c1.pdf

2.5 USAISEC Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) Technical Implementation Criteria, Version 7.0, September 2013. (ATT005)

2.6 UFC 4-140-03, Command and Control Facilities (C2F) and other Army Headquarters, 20 July 2012. (ATT007)

2.7 National Security Systems Advisory Memorandum (CNSSAM) TEMPEST/1-13, RED/BLACK Installation Guidance, 17 January 2014, https://www.cnss.gov/CNSS/issuances/Memoranda.cfm

2.8 Committee on National Security Systems Instructional (CNSSI) Protected Distribution Systems (PDS), Sept 2015, http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/CNSSI_7003_PDS_September_2015.pdf

2.9 USAISEC Instructional Guide for Developing Engineering Implementation Plan, May 2013. (ATT006)

2.10 Military Handbook MIL-HDBK-419, Grounding, Bonding, and Shielding for Electronics Equipment and Facilities, 29 Dec 87. Volumes 1 & 2. https://www.wbdg.org/ffc/navy-navfac/criteria-manuals/mil-hdbk-419a-v1 and https://www.wbdg.org/ffc/navy-navfac/criteria-manuals/mil-hdbk-419a-v2

2.11 Army Regulation 25-1, Army Information Technology, https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/AR.aspx.

2.12 Army Regulation 25-2, Information Assurance, http://www.apd.army.mil/.

2.13 Army Regulation 190-13, The Army Physical Security Program, http://www.apd.army.mil/.

2.14 Army Regulation 190-51, Security of Unclassified Army Property (Sensitive and Non-sensitive), http://www.apd.army.mil/.

2.15 Army Regulation 380-67, Personnel Security, http://www.apd.army.mil/.

2.16 Army Regulation 381-12, Threat Awareness and Reporting Program, http://www.apd.army.mil/.

2.17 Army Regulation 525-13, Antiterrorism, http://www.apd.army.mil (with CAC only).

2.18 Army Regulation 525-28, Personnel Recovery, http://www.apd.army.mil.

2.19 Army Regulation 530-1, Operations Security (OPSEC), http://www.apd.army.mil.

2.20 DoD Directive 8140.01, Cyberspace Workforce Management, http://www.apd.army.mil.

2.21 DoD Directive 5220.22-M, National Industrial Security Program operating Manual (NISPOM), Volume 3, 17 April 2014, http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/522022_vol3_2014.pdf.

2.22 DoD Manual (DoDM) 8410.03, Cyberspace Workforce Qualification and Management Program 15 February 2023 https://dodcio.defense.gov/Cyber-Workforce/DoDCW/

2.23 Army Directive 2014-05, Policy and Implementation Procedures for Common Access Card Credentialing and Installation Access for Uncleared Contractors, http://www.apd.army.mil.

2.24 Occupational Health and Safety Standard (OSHA). https://www.osha.gov/law-regs.html

2.25 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70, National Electric Code (NEC) 2017 version. https://www.nfpa.org

2.26 TIA-568 Commercial Building Set: Commercial Building Telecommunications Cabling Standard Part 1: General Requirements, Part 2: Balanced Twisted-Pair Cabling Components, and Part 3: Optical Fiber Cabling Components Standard - Includes: TIA-568.0-D, TIA-568.0-D-1, TIA-568.1-D, TIA-568.2-C, TIA-568.2-C Errata, TIA-568.2-C-1, TIA-568.2-C-2, TIA-568.3-D, TIA-568-4-D. https://www.tiaonline.org

2.27 DoDI 8100.04, DoD Unified Capabilities, December 9 2010. http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/810004p.pdf

2.28 Department of Defense Unified Capabilities Requirements 2013 (UCR 2013) Change 2, September 2017. https://disa.mil/~/media/Files/DISA/Services/UCCO/UCR-2013-Change2/UCR-2013-Change2.pdf

2.29 National Security Systems Advisory Memorandum (CNSSAM) TEMPEST/1-13, RED/BLACK Installation Guidance, 17 January 2014, https://www.cnss.gov/CNSS/issuances/Memoranda.cfm

3. REQUIREMENTS.

The Offeror shall utilize the italics portion of this Sample Task as directions for writing of a description of their technical approaches for developing the required products. There will be no actual performance or deliverables required on this sample task. For details and information not provided the Offeror shall state assumptions.

A Contractor's Progress, Status, and Management Report, CDRL A001 (ATT011) will be required.

(As part of this modernization effort, the following technologies are part of the requirements and shall be upgraded:

a) Modernize the NIPRNET data networks in both the HQ and DRC facilities;

b) Modernize and migrate all users off of the voice switch network to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system in both the HQ and DRC facilities;

c) Modernize the VTC system in both the HQ and DRC facilities;

d) Set up a new wireless network to handle all communications in the executive operations conference room for all users.

The design will address the following: physical facilities; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; electrical subsystems; grounding subsystems; data systems; voice systems; and visual information system.)

3.1 Site Surveys. Site surveys shall be conducted in order to identify all requirements for the HQ facility modernization. A Site Survey Report, CDRL TS24 (ATT053) shall be delivered following completion of the site survey.

(Describe your approach to performing site surveys, to include the types of information to be obtained during the survey including specific requirements for detailed work at overseas installations. Discuss your various considerations and your approach to completing the site survey report for this sample task.)

3.2 System Design Plan. Provide a System Design Plan (SDP), CDRL TS30 (ATT059) for the modernization of the required HQ complex information systems. The SDP identifies the HQ functional user requirements, existing conditions, and the proposed system designs for the HQ location. It serves as the basis for the development of the detailed engineering documentation. The SDP shall contain a systems analysis of current and future information systems for the HQ facility. The SDP will address the network (data), voice, video (A/V), and the supporting requirements of the HQ information systems.

(Describe your approach for developing the SDP to include data and voice classifications, video technologies and security engineering; describe the process for considering emerging technologies for this sample task.)

3.3 Facility Wiring and Design Criteria. Develop and deliver the Facility Wiring and Design Criteria (FWDC), CDRL TS08 (ATT61). The FWDC will be provided for all modernized and new information systems.

(Describe your approach for developing the FWDC for this sample task. The FWDC would be used by the integration team to modernize the information systems. Consider major aspects of the facility design; for example, cable signal requirements, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, power, grounding, cable infrastructure, telecommunications closets, security, and building cabling.

3.4 Detailed Engineering. Perform detailed engineering and develop and deliver the Engineering Installation Plan (EIP), CDRL TS25 (ATT054).

(Describe your approach for engineering and documenting those engineering details in the EIP for this sample task. Consider the major parts of the EIP such as: the installation List of Materials (LOM); the major item LOM; test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment (TMDE); drawings; installation plan and installation instructions. Discuss the LOM acquisition strategy and procurement plan.)

3.5 System Acceptance Test Plan. Develop and deliver the SAT Plan, CDRL TS27 (ATT056). The SAT Plan, when executed, shall be capable of demonstrating that all system elements addressed by the SDP and EIP meet all operational and acceptance requirements.

(Discuss your approach to produce this product.)

3.6 Installation Schedule. Develop and deliver the Installation Schedule, CDRL TS28 (ATT056).

(Describe your approach to developing the installation schedule for this sample task. A 12-month period for this installation effort will be considered for this sample task. Include project interdependencies, the inherent logistics issues, and potential impacts to this schedule. As part of the response, provide a brief example of the installation schedule.)

End of Sample Task #3

Section J, Attachment ATT0060 W91RUS27RA001

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Work Breakdown Structure – This sample illustrates a notional 3‐level work breakdown structure.

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