Defense Operations Platform

Added: Dec 12, 2012 2:24 pm NOTICE: THIS IS A SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT, NOT AN RFQ. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source noncommercial procurement. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation and proposals are being requested. The intent of this notice is to inform the contrator community of DISA’s proposed contract action. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) intends to award a sole source contract to IBM Corporation based on FAR 6.302-1(a)(2).

This requirement includes contract management, guidance for third party applications behind Defense Operations Platform (DOP) cost model analysis, validation of government acceptance on-boarding process, training support, professional services, quality assurance, third-party application demonstration, workflow integration analysis, maintenance of DOP, and automate the support for the hosted ABAC-enabled web-services.

The work to be accomplished provides the CTO with the ability to integrate third party capabilities which once integrated into the DOP harness will be present as an Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) enabled service. The requirement will prove out the DOP on-boarding process for third party applications and will offer a functionality demonstration of a third party application fielded within the DOP harness. The requirement will generate the documentation and research needed to create a working service catalogue offering for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and automate the support for the hosted ABAC-enabled web services.

The period of performance is 12 Months plus two one year option periods. This action will result in a Cost plus Fixed Fee Contract. The NAICS code for this requirement is 541330 with a size standard of $4.5M.

No contract will be awarded on the basis of offers received in response to this notice. Notwithstanding, any firm who believes it is capable of meeting DISA’s requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which if received within 10 calendar days of the date of this announcement, will be considered. All questions and/or responses must be directed to Steven Gagnon via email at steven.d.gagnon2.civ@mail.mil. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted.

A Justification for Other than Full and Open Competiton will be posted within 14 days of award.