WOLFDOOR RFI.pdf

UNCLASSIFIED

(U) United States Cyber Command

(USCYBERCOM)

(U) Request for Information

WOLFDOOR CDS Support Services

26 March 2021

Request for Information

[Wolfdoor, 25 March

(U) USCYBERCOM

(U) Request for Information

WOLFDOOR CDS Support 26 March 2021

(U) United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) seeks information from industry to assist with the development and planning of the WOLFDOOR CDS Support Effort. This is a Request for Information (RFI) notice only. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quote (RFQ). There is currently no funding for this action and there is no solicitation is available at this time.

1. (U) Overview and Procurement Description (U//FOUO) The United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) has a need to move data securely between USCYBERCOM, Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and commercial networks. (U) The WOLFDOOR Cross Domain Program Office was established in 2018, with the deployment and fielding of the WOLFDOOR Cross Domain Solution (CDS), a cyber-operations-focused Guard Farm, capable of moving data securely between USCYBERCOM, IC, DoD, and commercial networks. This boundary solution provides robust boundary security and mediation of data and information sources.

USCYBERCOM currently maintains an operation Cross Domain Solution, located at USCYBERCOM- HQ, Fort Meade, MD with a secondary Cross Domain Solution, to be deployed in FY22 at San Antonio, TX.

(U) To meet exponentially growing cyber mission needs, the Command requires expanded infrastructure to meet these mission requirements. The Contractor, in coordination with the Government, shall be responsible for maintaining, replicating, and expanding this infrastructure in support of mission systems.

The Contractor shall interact with multiple components of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA), to enable the sharing of information and enable mission planning and analysis. Driven by increasing mission needs, dramatic increases in data flow requests require adequate filter development, security, engineering, and testing resources to ensure transport fidelity. New standards and requirements mandate quick adaptation to technically complex compliance standards. Each disparate geographic location requires its own redundant technical staff, and the infrastructural support necessary to maintain operations.

(U) This RFI is requesting responses from both large and small businesses, including the following subsets: Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDBs), Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Firms, Certified 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) and Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs).

2. (U) Scope of RFI

(U) Through the responses provided, the Government intends to obtain the following information:

a. (U) Description of industry’s capabilities to meet the requirements described in this RFI

b. (U) Industry input on requirements, acquisition, and management approaches that would maximize innovative approaches/solutions, minimize cost/schedule, improve performance, and reduce risk.

Request for Information

3. (U) Acquisition and Technical Characteristics

3.1. (U) Acquisition Information

a. Explain your company’s potential interest in this effort (e.g. Prime, Subcontract, Teaming Arrangements, Joint Ventures, etc.).

b. Describe corporate experience providing similar operational and security boundary services.

c. Describe understanding of National Cross Domain Strategy and Management Office Raise the

Bar Strategy and implementation.

d. Describe corporate experience with the following applicable technologies: Forcepoint, Garrison, Owl Diode, or other recommended technologies.

e. Describe the contract structure your company would recommend given the unknowns in number and type of data flows. What recommendations are necessary to accommodate the level of risk in the contract?

f. Describe any incentives would your company recommend?

g. Describe any additional recommendations to the contract structure and/or vehicle?

3.2. (U) Technical Information

a. Does your company feel the staffing requirements are not achievable or have moderate to high risk? If yes, please explain?

b. Efforts were made to keep the contract at the unclassified level. Is there sufficient background and scope to provide the necessary information to complete a proposal? If not, please provide some types of information your company would like to see?

c. What additional information (if any) is required for your company to develop cost estimate?

4. (U) Requested Information

(U) All requested information is intended to facilitate the Government’s market research efforts and inform the Government’s acquisition considerations. Please ensure submissions include responses to the following information

a. (U) Identification and Interest:

o Company Name and Address; Company Representative’s Name and Business Title o Business Category(ies): (e.g., Large Business, Small Business, SDB, HUBZone, 8(a), SDVOSB, WOSB, involvement in mentor and/or protégé program, etc.)

o Company’s ability to meet the classification and security requirements of this effort

b. (U) Explain your company’s potential interest in this effort (e.g., Prime, Subcontract, Teaming, etc.)

c. (U) Corporate experience providing related/similar capabilities, products, or services:

Contract Name

Contract Number

Scope of Effort

Agency Supported

Period of Performance

d. (U) Acquisition Approaches:

o Acquisition approaches/alternatives for the Government to consider

Request for Information o Potential factors that would differentiate superior approaches to meeting the requirement o Potential risks to meeting USCYBERCOM’s requirement o Approaches for maximizing the use of small business considerations

e. (U) Technical Approaches:

o Description of commercial or non-developmental items that address USCYBERCOM’s requirement o Innovative approaches that the Government should consider in refining its requirement o Other specific technical approaches that the Government should consider in refining its requirement.

5. (U) Industry Discussions

(U) Representatives of USCYBERCOM may choose to meet with respondents and hold one-on-one discussions. Such discussions would be intended to obtain additional clarification of RFI responses.

6. (U) Questions

(U) Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by email to the Contract Specialist, Lavonne Jenkins, lmjenk3@cybercom.mil and the Contracting Officer, Quarteeya Garner, qngarne@cybercom.mil. Verbal questions will not be accepted. The Questions and Answers (Q&A) must be submitted to all referenced POCs NLT 4:00 p.m. EDT on 12 April 2021. All questions, along with applicable answer will be posted no later than 15 April 4:00 p.m. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after 15 April 2021will be answered. The Government will not reimburse companies for any costs associated with the submission of their RFI responses.

7. (U) Response Guidelines

(U) Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a white paper. Reponses shall specifically describe responses to each of the bullets (a. through e.) in Section 4.

(U) White papers shall be in Microsoft Word for Office, Adobe PDF, or compatible format and shall not exceed 10 pages, excluding cover, title, and table of contents pages. A page is defined as each face of an 8 ½ by 11-inch sheet with information contained within a one-inch margin on all sides. Text shall be Times New Roman and no less than 10-point font. The response should not exceed a 5MB email limit for all items associated with the RFI response. Companies that wish to respond to this RFI shall send responses clearly marked “RESPONSES to WOLFDOOR CDS Support Effort RFI” via email “time stamped" no later than 23 April 2021 at 4:00 p.m. EDT to Lavonne Jenkins (Contract Specialist) and Quarteeya N.

Garner (Contracting Officer). In the subject line of the email please label in the following format:

“WOLFDOOR CDS Support Effort” RFI Responses_CompanyName_DDMMYYYY.

8. (U) Disclaimer

(U) This RFI is not an RFP and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will neither be considered as proposals nor will any award be made as a result of this RFI. All information contained in the RFI is preliminary as well as mailto:lmjenk3@cybercom.mil mailto:qngarne@cybercom.mil

Request for Information subject to modification and is in no way binding on the Government. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause 52.215-3, “Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes”, is incorporated by reference in this RFI. The Government does not intend to pay for information received in response to this RFI. Respondents to this invitation are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. This RFI will be the basis for collecting information on available capabilities and is issued solely for information and planning purposes. Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, shall be clearly marked on all materials provided in response to this RFI. All received information that is marked “Proprietary” will be handled accordingly. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.

9. (U) Attachments

Statement of Work, WOLFDOOR CDS Support, Version 1.0, 25 March 2021

10. (U) RFI Point of Contacts Ms. Lavonne Jenkins (Contract Specialist)

Email: lmjenk3@cybercom.mil

Ms. Quarteeya Garner (Contracting Officer) Email: qngarne@cybercom.mil mailto:lmjenk3@cybercom.mil mailto:qngarne@cybercom.mil