WASP RFI 20241025.pdf

FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR SUBPART 10

Request for Information for Wide Area Surveillance Package

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES

Project Title:

WIDE AREA SURVEILLANCE PACKAGE

Family of Systems

Point of Contact (POC):

Antonino Lenora, Contracting Officer antonino.d.lenora.civ@socom.mil

Phone: 813-826-4033

FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR SUBPART 10

OBJECTIVE

United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is conducting market research in accordance with FAR Part 10. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP).

THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information and planning purposes as market research. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. There is NO commitment by the government to issue an RFP as a result of this Request for Information (RFI). This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if any is issued.

Posted Date: 25 October 2024

Response Date: 22 November 2024

1.0 BACKGROUND: United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) intends to procure Wide Area Surveillance Package (WASP) Family of Systems (FoS). WASP are scalable, modular, AI-enabled family of processing platforms that integrate, collate, record, store data, fuse, command and control (C2) sensors, and provide a platform for intelligence support, Situational Awareness (SA), and early indications/warnings. The core of the WASP system is its ability to fusion sensor and video data through a central compute hub device and digital video recorder (DVR) providing days to weeks of recorded information storage for operator retrieval and analysis. WASP are utilized in either light/medium/heavy configurations dependent upon mission requirements, operating within an open architecture with the ability to feed data between instances. The system integrates multiple sensors and cameras that provides the SOF operator capability to capture information at the tactical edge and push it to the rear echelon(s) for further dissemination. Please see CUI version for additional information.

2.0 REQUESTED INFORMATION.

2.1 Restricted Access (RA) Instructions: Although not required to respond to this RFI, USSOCOM may be able to provide additional sensitive and/or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) related to this potential requirement to cleared US vendors. To gain access to this information, contact the Primary and Secondary Points of Contacts below via email. This precaution has been established to limit the dissemination of sensitive and/or CUI.

2.2 Capability Statement: Request you submit a Capability Statement that presents your technical capability for providing a solution to WASP as it relates to the scope identified above.

The Capability Statement shall at a minimum address/discuss the specific requirements identified below. Please see CUI version for additional information.

2.3 Responses – Companies shall include a Cover Page with the following information:

a. Company name, mailing address, CAGE code, DUNS identification number, Point of Contact (POC), to include telephone number and email address.

FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH FAR SUBPART 10

b. Any available existing contract vehicles (e.g. GSA Schedule, GWACs, etc.), as well as the contract numbers.

c. Current status of facility and personnel security clearance.

Capability Statements shall be limited to 15 pages, in Microsoft Word or Adobe Portable Document Format. Capability Statements shall be submitted by e-mail to the POC identified below. The file size shall not exceed a 20 MB e-mail limit for all items submitted in response to this RFI.

Responses must be unclassified and any proprietary information provided must be marked accordingly. To protect such data, each page containing such data must be specifically identified and marked with a legend similar to the following: “The following contains proprietary information that (name of Responder) requests not be released to persons outside the Government, except for the purposes of review and evaluation.”

All replies must be provided to the Government no later than November 22nd, at 2:00 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time. All inquiries and responses concerning this action shall be sent in writing via email to: antonino.d.lenora.civ@socom.mil. Senders are responsible for ensuring the complete transmission and timely receipt.

The government may request a demonstration of existing capability based on your response.

All inquiries to this notice shall be sent via e-mail to antonino.d.lenora.civ@socom.mil

Contracting Office Address:

7701 Tampa Point Blvd MacDill AFB, Florida 33621-5323

Primary Point of Contact:

Antonino Lenora, Contracting Officer antonino.d.lenora.civ@socom.mil Phone: 813-826-4033

Secondary Point of Contact:

Asan Bui asan.bui@socom.mil Phone: 813-826-4853