TFDM Retirement

Under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a sole source modification to an existing contract with Freedom Consulting Group to continue operations and sustainment for the Topographic Feature Data Management (TFDM) software baseline, support of topographic capabilities transition to FG Modernization, and retirement and decommission of TFDM. Freedom Consulting Group is the only vendor who can provide the required level of support necessary to avoid operational impacts to the vast user community. Freedom Consulting's familiarity with the TFDM software baseline, architecture, operations, user community, and roadmap make them the most risk averse and cost effective solution for this extension period. Any change in contractor prior to award of a follow-on contract would create a disruption that would unnecessarily introduce additional risk to the customer base and degrade their operational effectiveness.

The sole source modification to the existing contract will provide operation and sustainment for the TFDM software baseline under terms consistent with the current requirements of the contract. All maintenance (preventive and scheduled), performance monitoring and issue resolution, discrepancy report (DR) work-off efforts, help desk support, and usage analysis are included in this effort. Transition planning and decommissioning will be included in this extension to facilitate a smooth retirement of TFDM and transition to the new capability. The period of performance for the existing contract will be extended for a total of 6 months, to September 2020.

This notice is in accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2 and is not a request for competitive proposals. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation in sufficient detail, which shall be considered by the NGA. A determination by the Government to compete the proposed procurement based on the responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.