TRADOC G2 Operational Environment and Core (OE/CORE) Functions Support

This notice is to provide an update to interested parties regarding the OE/CORE solicitation release date.
 
We do not have an estimated release date to provide at this time. However, the Government will be releasing answers to industry's draft RFP questions and providing amended DRAFT solicitation documents in an effort to expedite the process once a solicitation has been released. This amended notice WILL NOT constitute an official solicitation release. 

Estimated date for release of draft RFP answers and solicitation documents is October 30th.  

Deadline for questions, comments, and/or suggestions pertaining to the DRAFT documents contained in this notice has been extended to NOON on September 12, 2019.

No other changes have been made to this notice.

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) POSTING

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) - Fort Eustis, VA is hereby posting a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) for the TRADOC G-2 OE/CORE Function Support requirement.

The DRAFT RFP is not a formal solicitation; it is used to gather industry feedback prior to the release of the formal solicitation. The DRAFT RFP is designed to reduce proposal preparation time, and promote a clearer understanding of the TRADOC G-2 OE/CORE requirements. This notice does NOT constitute a formal solicitation and is not a commitment by the Government to procure services. Responses from interested vendors are not offers and the Government is no obligation to award a contract as a result of this announcement.

Interested parties are asked to submit questions, comments and/or suggestions on the DRAFT documents to the two individuals provided in this announcement by NOON on September 6, 2019. All questions shall be submitted via email ONLY.

Note: Questions, comments, and suggestions will NOT be formally addressed. No amendments to this notice will be issued containing responses to submitted questions. The feedback received as a response of this notice will be used to finalize solicitation documents. A formal question and answer opportunity will be identified upon issuance of the formal solicitation.

DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) POSTING

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) - Fort Eustis, VA is hereby posting a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) for the TRADOC G-2 OE/CORE Function Support requirement.

The DRAFT RFP is not a formal solicitation; it is used to gather industry feedback prior to the release of the formal solicitation. The DRAFT RFP is designed to reduce proposal preparation time, and promote a clearer understanding of the TRADOC G-2 OE/CORE requirements. This notice does NOT constitute a formal solicitation and is not a commitment by the Government to procure services. Responses from interested vendors are not offers and the Government is no obligation to award a contract as a result of this announcement.

Interested parties are asked to submit questions, comments and/or suggestions on the DRAFT documents to the two individuals provided listed in this announcement by the response due date listed. All questions shall be submitted via email ONLY.

Note: Questions, comments, and suggestions will NOT be formally addressed. No amendments to this notice will be issued containing responses to submitted questions. The feedback received as a response of this notice will be used to finalize solicitation documents. A formal question and answer opportunity will be identified upon issuance of the formal solicitation.

This notice is issued to inform interested vendors that the initial draft solicitation release date has been moved from June 20 to July 8. A procurement approach has not been finalized.

This amendment provides the sign-in sheet and presentation slides from the Industry Day held on March 7, 2019.

SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE FOR
Operational Environment and Core Functions (OE CORE) Support Services for the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) G-2

INTRODUCTION

The Mission and Installation Command (MICC) - Fort Eustis is issuing this sources sought notice (SSN) as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, G-2 Operational Environment and Core (OE/Core) Functions. The intention is to procure these services on a competitive basis. A small-business set-aside will be considered provided 2 or more qualified small businesses respond to this source sought notice with information sufficient to support a set-aside. We encourage all small business concerns, in all socioeconomic categories (including, 8(a) Business Development Program, Small Disadvantage Business, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned, Women-Owned Small Business concerns), to identify their capabilities in meeting the requirement at a fair market price.

The TRADOC G-2 and MICC will host a site visit, during the afternoon of March 7, 2019 at the ATSC Multi-purpose Annex Training Facility (see Additional Information section below) AFTER the MICC Ft. Eustis Industry Day 2019 scheduled in the morning.

DISCLAIMER

"THIS SOURCES SOUGHT IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A "REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)" TO BE SUBMITTED. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS TO THIS TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. RESPPONSES WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE RESPONDER. NOT RESPONDING TO THIS NOTICE DOES NOT PRECLUDE PARTICIPATION IN ANY FUTURE REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) OR INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) OR RFP, IF ANY ISSUED. IF A SOLICITATION IS RELEASED, IT WILL BE SYNOPSIZED ON THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE POINT OF ENTRY (GPE). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF POTENTIAL OFFERORS TO MONITOR THE GPE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMMATION PERTAINING TO THIS REQUIREMENT."

PROGRAM BACKGROUND

The U.S. Army TRADOC, Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-2 (Intelligence) mission is to understand, visualize, describe, deliver and assess the operational environment (OE) to reduce risk, and prevent surprise for Today and 2035+. The operational environment (OE) is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit commander. TRADOC G-2 develops, verifies, validates, accredits, and provides OE products, services, and support on behalf of the TRADOC Deputy Commanding General/Chief of Staff. This process represents an authoritative, validated OE contextual baseline for TRADOC users and operational forces in the areas of training and training development; education; leader development; concept and doctrine development; and capabilities development, integration, and evaluation. TRADOC G-2 manages the development and provision of OE outputs through the command's OE Enterprise (OEE). The OEE is the Army's principal means for the delivery of common and/or consistent OE output (in the form of products, services, and/or support) across the key domains of TRADOC's mission.

The Contractor shall ensure all projects maintain consistency with each other and avoid duplication of effort within the program. The Contractor shall support the TRADOC G-2 executing its mission as TRADOC's designated Lead for the OE, and provide support and services to TRADOC in the following areas consisting of various tasks: (1) Mission Support, (2) Analysis and Control Element (ACE), whose task is to describe the OE, (3) Operational Environment Center (OEC), whose task is to deliver and assess the OE, (4) Culture and Critical Thinking, whose task is to understand the OE, and (5) optional tasks such as Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR).

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

The Contractor shall provide services in support of the areas specified in Program Background (above). Further detail is provided in the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) attached to this announcement (Attachment 1).

If your organization has the potential capacity to perform these contract services, please provide the following information: 1) Organization name, address, CAGE code, DUNS, POC email address, Web site address, telephone number, and size and type of ownership for the organization; 2) Tailored capability statements addressing the questions and requests provided below, with appropriate documentation supporting claims of organizational and staff capability. If significant subcontracting or teaming is anticipated in order to deliver technical capability, organizations should address the administrative and management structure of such arrangements; and 3) Whether your company is interested in competing for this requirement as a prime contractor or not (identify subcontracting, joint ventures, or team arrangement that will be pursued, if any).

If interested as proposing as a small-business prime, please also provide the following information: 1) Identify what percentage of work will be performed by the small business prime contractor and all similarly situated entity subcontractors (Note: In accordance with FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting (DEVIATION 2019-O0003) "Similarly situated entity" means a first-tier subcontractor, including an independent contractor, that has the same small business program status as that which qualified the prime contractor for the award and that is considered small for the NAICS code the prime contractor assigned to the subcontract the subcontractor will perform. An example of a similarly situated entity is a first-tier subcontractor that is a HUBZone small business concern for a HUBZone set-aside);and, 2) Identify type(s)/ certifications(s) such as SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, etc.) of the proposed subcontractors.

The Government will assess submitted information to ascertain potential market capacity to: 1) provide services consistent, in scope and scale, with those described in this notice and otherwise anticipated; 2) secure and apply the full range of corporate financial, human capital, and technical resources required to successfully perform similar requirements; 3) implement a successful program management plan that includes: compliance with tight program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel; risk mitigation; and day-to-day management; and 4) provide services under a performance based service acquisition contract.

Interested parties are requested to submit a capabilities statement of no more than ten (10) pages in length in Times New Roman font of not less than 10 size font. The deadline for response to this request is no later than 10 am EST March 15, 2019. All responses under this Sources Sought Notice must be emailed to:

Christina Crawley, Contract Specialist, christina.m.crawley.civ@mail.mil
Ralph Kaminski, Contracting Officer, ralph.f.kaminski.civ@mail.mil

Telephone inquiries will not be accepted or acknowledged, and no feedback or evaluations will be provided to companies regarding their submissions.

This documentation must address at a minimum the following items:

  1a.) What type of work has your company performed in the past in support of the same or similar requirement? Specify whether support has been provided as a prime contractor or a subcontractor.

  1b.) What tactical and operational expertise does your company have in Joint operations and multiple domains as it applies to wargames IAW Draft PWS Section 5.3.9?

  2.) Can or has your company managed a task of this nature and size? If so, please provide details.

  3.) Can or has your company managed a team of subcontractors before? If so, provide details.

  4a.) What specific technical skills does your company possess which ensure capability to perform the tasks?

  4b.) Describe the qualifications of your Key Personnel listed in draft PWS Section 1.4.3.7.

  5a.) What is your primary Business Focus?

  5b.) Provide a statement including current small/large business status and company profile to include number of employees, annual revenue history (last 5 years), line of credit, office locations, etc.

  6.) A primary concern of the Government is the company's ability to ramp up within the phase-in period. Explain how your company or team will be able to ramp up to fully support this requirement. Explanation should include staffing plans and any intended teaming arrangements.

  7.) Project Management (PM) is also a critical area of this requirement as described in Section C-6 of the PWS. How does your company intend to satisfy the PM aspect regarding the program schedules; cost containment; meeting and tracking performance; hiring and retention of key personnel; risk mitigation; and the day-to-day management of a contract of this complexity?

  8.) Does your company currently hold a Top Secret Facility clearance? A Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance?

  9.) Identify how the Army can best structure these contract requirements to facilitate competition by and among small business concerns.

  10.) Recommendations to improve the approach/specifications/draft PWS to acquiring the identified services.

  11.) Identify any condition or action that may be having the effect of unnecessarily restricting competition with respect to this acquisition. Please contact the MICC Advocate for Competition, Scott Kukes, at scott.d.kukes.civ@mail.mil or 210-466-2269, if you believe that this action is unreasonably restricting competition. Include the subject of the acquisition, this announcement, and the MICC POC information from the FedBizOpps notice. Provide the specific aspects that unreasonably restrict competition and the rationale for such conclusion.

The estimated period of performance consists of a 30-day phase-in, 11-month base period and 4 12-month option periods with phase-in commencing on July 10, 2020. Specifics regarding option periods will be provided in the solicitation.

The contract type is anticipated to be a combination of fixed-price and cost-reimbursable. The contract line item structure will consist primarily of firm-fixed-price support. A cost-plus-fixed-fee line for specified support is also anticipated, and is currently expected to be around 10% of the support requirement. There will also be cost-reimbursable line items for travel and other direct costs.

Upon assessment of the capability statements, if it is determined that this requirement will be an unrestricted competition, the Government intends to evaluate the Small-Business responses and conduct further market research to identify a subcontracting goal.

All data received in response to this Sources Sought that is marked or designated as corporate or proprietary will be fully protected from any release outside the Government.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Personnel and Facility Security Clearances. 

   o Personnel require specific security clearances depending on the required support. Clearances are detailed in the PWS. 

   o A DD Form 254 Contract Security Classification Specification shall apply to this requirement and the prime contractor shall have or demonstrate ability to obtain a Top Secret Facility Clearance.

ELIGIBILITY

The applicable NAICS code for this requirement is 541990 with a Small Business Size Standard of $15 million. The Product Service Code is R499. Businesses of all sizes are encouraged to respond; however, each respondent must clearly identify their business size and socio-economic size status, as applicable, in their capabilities statement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (SITE VISIT)

The MICC - Fort Eustis and TRADOC G-2 intend to hold a site visit with on March 7, 2019 at:

Army Training Technology Facility
Building 1737 (Corner of Fifth and Patton near General Smalls Inn)
Fort Eustis, VA

Sign-in will begin at 1:00 pm EST and presentations will begin promptly at 1:30 pm EST.

Any questions must be submitted via email to Ms. Crawley and Mr. Kaminksi no later than 10 am EST on March 4, 2019 in order to be addressed at either the Industry Day or in a follow-up FBO posting. All submissions should be clearly marked 'Question(s) for TRADOC G-2 OE CORE Industry Day 2019.'

This scheduled site visit will enable potential Offerors to further understand the history behind the requirement. Attendance at the site visit is not a requirement and in no way will it have any effect on any company from submitting a response to this SSN and/or a proposal in response to any forthcoming solicitation.

Note: This event is separate from the Industry Day event that is being held during the morning of the same day at the same facility. Each event has its own registration process and points of contact, and should be registered for individually as specified on each announcement.

Each attendee shall register individually by March 6th at the following website in order to reserve a seat: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tradoc-g2-oe-core-industry-day-tickets-54929805527 

There is no fee to attend but registration is required! Due to space limitations, no more than two (2) representatives from each potential Offeror will be permitted to attend the site visit and should register individually on the site.