Information Technology Support Services for Fort Hood, Texas.

**UPDATE 27 March 2014: Anticipated solicitation release date has been again revised. Anticipated release date is now scheduled for on or around to on or around 15 April 2014.**

This is a pre-solicitation notice for solicitation W91151-13-R-0043 for Information Technology Support Services at Fort Hood, Texas. The solicitation is tentatively scheduled for release on or around 4 March 2014. The solicitation will be available for download at the Army Single Face to Industry website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. No paper copies of the solicitation will be mailed and telephone requests will not be honored.

FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items will be used in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. This procurement is set-aside for 8(a) small businesses. All responsible and responsive proposals will be considered for award.

A brief synopsis of this new requirement extracted from the Performance Work Statement (PWS) is as follows: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, equipment, materials, and transportation, not identified as Government Furnished (Section3), necessary to perform the services detailed in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The scope of this contract includes Inside Plant (ISP) Operations, Outside Plant (OSP) Operations, Customer Service Desk (Tier I), Customer Service Support (Tier II, Tier III maintenance support), information assurance, patch management, telecommunications support, business services support, infrastructure documentation, server applications support, web/portal services support, network management support, and integration of said functions necessary to provide the Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and all units under the Fort Hood NEC purview, service support as defined in this PWS and task orders issued hereunder. Service Support will also include systems management; operations, maintenance, information system engineering (to include development of new technology and equipment bill of materials), and information systems security/information assurance in support of current IT initiatives. In addition, Service Support shall include technical support of designated unit exercises, in preparation for Fort Hood deployments, and operational tests in which the NEC's participation is required.

Note: The Fort Hood quote mark NEC Purview quote mark is defined as the quote mark tasks quote mark listed as the NEC's responsibility/mission within the Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM), LandWarNet, Army Regulation (AR) 25-1, and AR 25-13.

The period of performance for this acquisition is anticipated as follows:

Phase In: 1 May 2014 - 31 May 2014
Base Period: 1 June 2014 - 30 April 2015
Option Year 1: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016
Option Year 2: 1 May 2016 - 30 April 2017

Firms are requested to submit any questions/concerns regarding this notice directly to the Contract Specialist, Michael Christ, at michael.p.christ2.civ@mail.mil, and CC the Contracting Officer, Leeann Burke, at leeann.burke.civ@mail.mil no later than 4:00 PM CST 4 March 2014. Questions submitted by other means will not be evaluated or considered. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposals. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541513, Computer Facilities Management Services. The Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 541513 is $25,500,000.

**UPDATE 14 March 2014: Anticipated solicitation release date has been again revised. Anticipated release date is now scheduled for on or around to on or around 25 March 2014.**

This is a pre-solicitation notice for solicitation W91151-13-R-0043 for Information Technology Support Services at Fort Hood, Texas. The solicitation is tentatively scheduled for release on or around 4 March 2014. The solicitation will be available for download at the Army Single Face to Industry website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. No paper copies of the solicitation will be mailed and telephone requests will not be honored.

FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items will be used in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. This procurement is set-aside for 8(a) small businesses. All responsible and responsive proposals will be considered for award.

A brief synopsis of this new requirement extracted from the Performance Work Statement (PWS) is as follows: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, equipment, materials, and transportation, not identified as Government Furnished (Section3), necessary to perform the services detailed in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The scope of this contract includes Inside Plant (ISP) Operations, Outside Plant (OSP) Operations, Customer Service Desk (Tier I), Customer Service Support (Tier II, Tier III maintenance support), information assurance, patch management, telecommunications support, business services support, infrastructure documentation, server applications support, web/portal services support, network management support, and integration of said functions necessary to provide the Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and all units under the Fort Hood NEC purview, service support as defined in this PWS and task orders issued hereunder. Service Support will also include systems management; operations, maintenance, information system engineering (to include development of new technology and equipment bill of materials), and information systems security/information assurance in support of current IT initiatives. In addition, Service Support shall include technical support of designated unit exercises, in preparation for Fort Hood deployments, and operational tests in which the NEC's participation is required.

Note: The Fort Hood quote mark NEC Purview quote mark is defined as the quote mark tasks quote mark listed as the NEC's responsibility/mission within the Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM), LandWarNet, Army Regulation (AR) 25-1, and AR 25-13.

The period of performance for this acquisition is anticipated as follows:

Phase In: 1 May 2014 - 31 May 2014
Base Period: 1 June 2014 - 30 April 2015
Option Year 1: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016
Option Year 2: 1 May 2016 - 30 April 2017

Firms are requested to submit any questions/concerns regarding this notice directly to the Contract Specialist, Michael Christ, at michael.p.christ2.civ@mail.mil, and CC the Contracting Officer, Leeann Burke, at leeann.burke.civ@mail.mil no later than 4:00 PM CST 4 March 2014. Questions submitted by other means will not be evaluated or considered. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposals. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541513, Computer Facilities Management Services. The Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 541513 is $25,500,000.

**UPDATE 4 March 2014: Anticipated solicitation release date has been revised to on or around 14 March 2014.**

This is a pre-solicitation notice for solicitation W91151-13-R-0043 for Information Technology Support Services at Fort Hood, Texas. The solicitation is tentatively scheduled for release on or around 4 March 2014. The solicitation will be available for download at the Army Single Face to Industry website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. No paper copies of the solicitation will be mailed and telephone requests will not be honored.

FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items will be used in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. This procurement is set-aside for 8(a) small businesses. All responsible and responsive proposals will be considered for award.

A brief synopsis of this new requirement extracted from the Performance Work Statement (PWS) is as follows: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, equipment, materials, and transportation, not identified as Government Furnished (Section3), necessary to perform the services detailed in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The scope of this contract includes Inside Plant (ISP) Operations, Outside Plant (OSP) Operations, Customer Service Desk (Tier I), Customer Service Support (Tier II, Tier III maintenance support), information assurance, patch management, telecommunications support, business services support, infrastructure documentation, server applications support, web/portal services support, network management support, and integration of said functions necessary to provide the Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and all units under the Fort Hood NEC purview, service support as defined in this PWS and task orders issued hereunder. Service Support will also include systems management; operations, maintenance, information system engineering (to include development of new technology and equipment bill of materials), and information systems security/information assurance in support of current IT initiatives. In addition, Service Support shall include technical support of designated unit exercises, in preparation for Fort Hood deployments, and operational tests in which the NEC's participation is required.

Note: The Fort Hood quote mark NEC Purview quote mark is defined as the quote mark tasks quote mark listed as the NEC's responsibility/mission within the Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM), LandWarNet, Army Regulation (AR) 25-1, and AR 25-13.

The period of performance for this acquisition is anticipated as follows:

Phase In: 1 May 2014 - 31 May 2014
Base Period: 1 June 2014 - 30 April 2015
Option Year 1: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016
Option Year 2: 1 May 2016 - 30 April 2017

Firms are requested to submit any questions/concerns regarding this notice directly to the Contract Specialist, Michael Christ, at michael.p.christ2.civ@mail.mil, and CC the Contracting Officer, Leeann Burke, at leeann.burke.civ@mail.mil no later than 4:00 PM CST 4 March 2014. Questions submitted by other means will not be evaluated or considered. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposals. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541513, Computer Facilities Management Services. The Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 541513 is $25,500,000.

**UPDATE 4 March 2014: Anticipated solicitation release date has been revised to on or around 14 March 2014.**

This is a pre-solicitation notice for solicitation W91151-13-R-0043 for Information Technology Support Services at Fort Hood, Texas. The solicitation is tentatively scheduled for release on or around 4 March 2014. The solicitation will be available for download at the Army Single Face to Industry website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. No paper copies of the solicitation will be mailed and telephone requests will not be honored.

FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items will be used in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. This procurement is set-aside for 8(a) small businesses. All responsible and responsive proposals will be considered for award.

A brief synopsis of this new requirement extracted from the Performance Work Statement (PWS) is as follows: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, equipment, materials, and transportation, not identified as Government Furnished (Section3), necessary to perform the services detailed in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The scope of this contract includes Inside Plant (ISP) Operations, Outside Plant (OSP) Operations, Customer Service Desk (Tier I), Customer Service Support (Tier II, Tier III maintenance support), information assurance, patch management, telecommunications support, business services support, infrastructure documentation, server applications support, web/portal services support, network management support, and integration of said functions necessary to provide the Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and all units under the Fort Hood NEC purview, service support as defined in this PWS and task orders issued hereunder. Service Support will also include systems management; operations, maintenance, information system engineering (to include development of new technology and equipment bill of materials), and information systems security/information assurance in support of current IT initiatives. In addition, Service Support shall include technical support of designated unit exercises, in preparation for Fort Hood deployments, and operational tests in which the NEC's participation is required.

Note: The Fort Hood quote mark NEC Purview quote mark is defined as the quote mark tasks quote mark listed as the NEC's responsibility/mission within the Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM), LandWarNet, Army Regulation (AR) 25-1, and AR 25-13.

The period of performance for this acquisition is anticipated as follows:

Phase In: 1 May 2014 - 31 May 2014
Base Period: 1 June 2014 - 30 April 2015
Option Year 1: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016
Option Year 2: 1 May 2016 - 30 April 2017

Firms are requested to submit any questions/concerns regarding this notice directly to the Contract Specialist, Michael Christ, at michael.p.christ2.civ@mail.mil, and CC the Contracting Officer, Leeann Burke, at leeann.burke.civ@mail.mil no later than 4:00 PM CST 4 March 2014. Questions submitted by other means will not be evaluated or considered. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposals. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541513, Computer Facilities Management Services. The Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 561621 is $25,500,000.

This is a pre-solicitation notice for solicitation W91151-13-R-0043 for Information Technology Support Services at Fort Hood, Texas. The solicitation is tentatively scheduled for release on or around 4 March 2014. The solicitation will be available for download at the Army Single Face to Industry website at https://acquisition.army.mil/asfi/. No paper copies of the solicitation will be mailed and telephone requests will not be honored.

FAR Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items will be used in conjunction with the policies and procedures for solicitation, evaluation, and award prescribed in FAR Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation. This procurement is set-aside for 8(a) small businesses. All responsible and responsive proposals will be considered for award.

A brief synopsis of this new requirement extracted from the Performance Work Statement (PWS) is as follows: The Contractor shall provide all personnel, management, supervision, labor, tools, equipment, materials, and transportation, not identified as Government Furnished (Section3), necessary to perform the services detailed in this Performance Work Statement (PWS). The scope of this contract includes Inside Plant (ISP) Operations, Outside Plant (OSP) Operations, Customer Service Desk (Tier I), Customer Service Support (Tier II, Tier III maintenance support), information assurance, patch management, telecommunications support, business services support, infrastructure documentation, server applications support, web/portal services support, network management support, and integration of said functions necessary to provide the Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center (NEC) and all units under the Fort Hood NEC purview, service support as defined in this PWS and task orders issued hereunder. Service Support will also include systems management; operations, maintenance, information system engineering (to include development of new technology and equipment bill of materials), and information systems security/information assurance in support of current IT initiatives. In addition, Service Support shall include technical support of designated unit exercises, in preparation for Fort Hood deployments, and operational tests in which the NEC's participation is required.

Note: The Fort Hood quote mark NEC Purview quote mark is defined as the quote mark tasks quote mark listed as the NEC's responsibility/mission within the Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Management (C4IM), LandWarNet, Army Regulation (AR) 25-1, and AR 25-13.

The period of performance for this acquisition is anticipated as follows:

Phase In: 1 May 2014 - 31 May 2014
Base Period: 1 June 2014 - 30 April 2015
Option Year 1: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016
Option Year 2: 1 May 2016 - 30 April 2017

Firms are requested to submit any questions/concerns regarding this notice directly to the Contract Specialist, Michael Christ, at michael.p.christ2.civ@mail.mil, and CC the Contracting Officer, Leeann Burke, at leeann.burke.civ@mail.mil no later than 4:00 PM CST 4 March 2014. Questions submitted by other means will not be evaluated or considered. This pre-solicitation notice is not a request for proposals. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 541513, Computer Facilities Management Services. The Small Business Size Standard for NAICS 561621 is $25,500,000.