JPEO-JTRS, Network Enterprise Domain (NED) Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) Software In-Service Support

The Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacificon behalf of the Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO), Joint Tactical Radio

System (JTRS) Network Enterprise Domain (NED) intends to issue a solicitation

to provide technical support, software development, sustainment, maintenance,

upgrades and enhancements for JTRS NED, Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW).



Source Code and Applicable Documents: The applicable source code and

supporting documents will be provided to each authorized offeror and their sub-

contractors, if applicable. In order to receive a copy of the source code and

applicable documents, offerors and their sub-contractors must be authorized to

have access to the JTRS SRW artifacts. To obtain authorization, each

offeror/sub-contractor must complete the form for SRW SwISS RFP access and

sign a SRW SwISS proposal Non-Disclosure Agreement located at the JTRS

Information Repository (IR) website, http://ir-public.jpeojtrs.mil/. Offerors

are

encouraged to request authorization to receive the JTRS SRW artifacts prior to

release of the formal RFP. Those offerors that do not have a properly

certified

DD Form 2345 can start that process immediately by following the procedures

documented at the IR Website. The artifacts will be provided on a CD to

authorized offerors after the formal RFP is released. The CDs will be

encrypted

in order to protect the data. The CD recipients will need to contact the

Contract

Specialist, justin.valeron@navy.mil, or PCO patrick.j.donnelly@navy.mil in

order

to receive the CD's password to decrypt the content. Access to the IR will only

be granted to the successful offeror after contract award. Externally

controlled

reference documents, such as IEEE standards, are available at:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp. All recipients of the artifact

CD

must agree to return the CD as well as any/all copies of the Data contained on

the CD in the offeror's possession either upon submission of a proposal or

upon the corresponding RFP proposal submission deadline, whichever comes

first. This agreement also pertains to recipients of the CD who decide to not

submit a proposal for any reason.



The estimated level of effort is 59,228 hours for technical support and 118,096

hours for maintenance/upgrades over the contract's expected five-year period

of performance. Additionally, the Offeror shall propose hours for the two

sample enhancement tasks identified in RFP. An indefinite delivery, indefinite

quantity contract with a cost-plus-fixed/ incentive-fee pricing arrangement is

anticipated. The Government anticipates making a single award pursuant to

the criteria in the RFP. This solicitation is not a follow-on to an existing

contract. Additional information will be available on the SPAWAR e-commerce

web site under "future opportunities" as it becomes available. NO

SOLICITATION EXISTS AT THIS TIME. It is currently anticipated that

Solicitation

N66001-11-R-0043 regarding this requirement will be released in June of

2011. The solicitation and any subsequent amendments resulting from this

announcement will be available to interested parties via the SPAWAR E-

Commerce Central web site at https://e-commerce.spawar.navy.mil,

under "Business Opportunities, SSC Pacific", "Open Solicitations." The

solicitation will only be available electronically at this website. Hard

copies of

the solicitation will not be available. It is the responsibility of interested

parties

to periodically monitor the SPAWAR E-Commerce page for updates and new

listings.