for Information Assurance, Operations and Compliance, Systems and Technology Support Services

9 January 2015

FAQ

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This announcement is prepared and posted in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 5.2 to notify potential Offerors of a solicitation for services for the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA). Solicitation number HQ0727-15-R-0003 requests proposals for for Information Assurance, Operations and Compliance, Systems and Technology Support Services for all Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA).

The objective of this contract is to acquire services for Information Assurance, Operations and Compliance, Systems and Technology Support Services for all Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) information technology,networking, communications, safety, surveillance, and critical infrastructure software, systems, and applications.

Work to be performed includes technical, administrative, and professional services in support of DMEA IT/IA
requirements, including:

The contractor shall provide Information Assurance, Operations and Compliance, Systems and Technology Support Services IAW the base Performance Work Statement (PWS) DMEA 15-5A0, and subsequent task order Statements of Objectives (SOOs) and/or PWSs.

The contractor will also support numerous commercial, DoD supplied, and internally developed software applications for current and legacy systems. The list of software to be supported includes specialized process automation and control applications, custom database applications, and numerous operating systems and applications that are subject to internal development, patching, upgrades, and new installations. Software
developed in part or in whole by the contractor requires the use of DoD and industry best practices, full testing, deployment, documentation, user training, maintenance, updates.

The proposed contract will be a 100% small business set-aside, commercial, single award IDIQ. Task orders will be issued as firm fixed-price.

The Issue date is:24 December 2014
The official closing date and time is 1100 A.M. 23 January 2015

Synopsis for this requirement was previously posted under solicitation number HQ0727-15-R-0003. The Sources Sought Notice for this requirement was previously posted under solicitation number HQ0727-14-R-14JH.

Please note that the Government reserves the right to cancel the solicitation at any time; costs incurred to include proposal preparation costs will not be reimbursed for any Offeror actions in response to this notice.

Facility Clearance Verification and NDA Execution Required to Receive the RFP Package: To receive a copy of the solicitation package, offerors must submit a copy of their certificate from the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Security Services (DSS) or DSS Commercial and Government Entity (CAGE) Code and an executed Nondisclosure Agreement. The Government will not release the solicitation to an offeror until it has independently verified the offeror's TOP SECRET Facility Clearance.