Request for Information (RFI) FA7046RFI071708: Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center is requesting information and conducting market research to determine if there are potential sources which have the capabilities to provide security services at HQ AFOTEC and its Detachments. FAR 52.215-3: (a) The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI or to otherwise pay for the information solicited except as an allowable cost under other contracts as provided in subsection 31.205-18, bid and proposal costs, of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. (b) Although "proposal" and "offeror" are used in this RFI, your response will be treated as information only. It shall not be used as a proposal. (c) This RFI is for planning and market research purposes only and should not be considered as a request for proposals or as a solicitation to do business with the Government. The AFOTEC contractor will be responsible to provide security services oversight and maintenance of security requirements associated with the classified security environment. The scope of the effort includes Information, Industrial, Physical, Communication (COMSEC), and Personnel security to support collateral security, special access program security, Operations Security (OPSEC), and SCI security. This includes documentation controls, conduct of security training, log and control of magnetic media and maintaining compliance with security policies and processes. The contractor shall participate in self-reviews, manage the visit request program and the fraud waste & abuse program, perform inspections and document, track personnel security investigations, facilitate records checks, maintain building alarm and access control programs, manage entry/exit inspection program, conduct alarm tests, provide technical guidance on design of new special access facility, manage the joint personnel adjudication data base, develop/implement security plans to mitigate security risks to include SOPs, OIs, and participate in the development of automated information system procedures. This effort is in accordance with the Director National Intelligence, Director Central Intelligence, Air Force ISR Agency guidance for SCI support. Interested and capable sources should e-mail or fax their responses to the Contracting Officer, Paulette S.L. Windley at
[email protected] Fax: 505.846.2414, by no later than 4 August 2008. Direct technical questions to Capt. Jared Holt,
[email protected] or 505-846-6442. There is no solicitation package available at this time. Responses to this RFI must at a minimum be able to describe your capabilities, provide a brief synopsis of your ability to meet either all or a portion of the requirements described herein, and answer the below questions. Page limitation is 50 pages at no smaller than font size of 12. For information purposes assume the effort begins on 1 Feb 2009 and runs through 31 Jan 2014, a one-year basic contract with four one-year options. • Do employees possess the appropriate security clearance? (i.e., Secret, TS, SCI, etc) • Is the Top Secret security clearance current within 4 ½ years? Are they eligible for SCI? • Do employees have any security experience? If so, what type and years of experience? In what areas (collateral, SAP, SCI, etc)? • Are employees Tier 1 eligible IAW Joint Air Force, Army, Navy (JAFAN) Manual 6/4 standards? Are employees DCID 6/4 qualified to be in-briefed into required accesses (SAP, SCI, etc.)? • Have employees been trained in Anti-terrorism/force protection? • Have employees been trained in Information Security and attended accredited Information Security courses? • Have employees been trained in Industrial Security and have a working knowledge of the NISPOM? • Have employees been trained in Air Force security regulations and AFOTEC security policies? • Have employees been trained in Personnel Security? • Have employees been trained in Communications Security (COMSEC) and served as a COMSEC Responsible Officer (CRO) or alternate CRO? • Are employees trained in Joint Personnel Access System (JPAS)? • Are employees trained on Top Secret Control Accounts? • Have employees attended the Personnel Security Management Course? • Are employees trained in Microsoft applications? • Have employees been trained on the AFADS system? • Have employees attended the SAP Orientation Course or the SAP Mid-level Management Course? • Have employees attended the SCI Management Course? If so, when? • Have employees attended the Contractor Verification System User Course? • Are employees willing to submit a current signed and dated copy of their SF-86/e-QIP paperwork to AFOTEC, prior to employment? • Do you have experience preparing a fixed facility checklist? • Do you have experience in overseeing construction renovations of a SAPF area? • Do you have experience with procedures for handling COMSEC Controllable equipment? • Do you have experience with Secure Communication capabilities and the process of updating the equipment? • Do you have experience with developing policies, procedures and other forms of guidance necessary to support agency management officials in planning, developing, coordinating, evaluating and administering security programs and operations? • Do you have a GSA contract under Law Enforcement and Security - Schedule 84, 246-52 Professional Security/Facility Management Services or 246 60 2 Security Management and Support Services? • Indicate if you are a small business under the anticipated NAICS of 561621.