Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source for P2RTM Follow-On

1. Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace Technologies Corporation for the Persistence to Resource Tasking Marketplace Follow-On (P2RTM-FO) contract system, which will include the development of enhancements driven by external dependencies and user Concept of Operations (CONOPS) changes. The period of performance (POP) for this sole source action will be one year. 2. The P2RTM follow-on effort will require the contractor to modify the P2RTM code baseline using agile software development methodologies in response to external dependencies from the GEOINT Information Management Services (GIMS) and in response to user CONOPS changes. Collection Requirement (CR) management for NGA/TZ involves two systems; GIMS and P2RTM. GIMS provides the GEOINT Needs management of collection requirements to ensure the need is valid and assess what assets in the GEOINT constellation could assist the users need. Once assigned as an asset, the CR is sent to P2RTM, which provides the supplier management function, and allows further collection planning and feasibility assessment that leads ultimately to a collection schedule to satisfy the CR. P2RTM is currently deployed as a standalone system providing CR planning and assessments. In the next phase of deployment in April 2016, P2RTM will become the planning functionality in the Persistent GEOINT Mission Management (PGMM) system. PGMM is responsible for complete collection requirement functionality of planning, feasibility assessment, scheduling and tracking of all collection tasks. PGMM is currently deployed in a prototype operations environment. PGMM is currently being transitioned to a competitively selected contract with industry, administered by a Mission Partner. The eventual successful offeror will be responsible for PGMM development, deployment and operational acceptance. 3. The NGA/TZ Office is integrating into main-stream Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) business processes. One area of integration focus is tasking management functions, including the two major tasking sub-elements of needs management and supplier management. In order to deliver an interim tasking capability, the Government awarded P2RTM development on 1 October 2012. NGA established this pilot/prototype program via a competitive award to Ball Aerospace under Task Order HM157210D0011/0003. P2RTM capabilities were developed under this task order to meet NGA/TZ MSA Block 2 requirements. The P2RTM-FO effort is a "follow-on contract" for a NGA/TZ task order issued under the now expired TASER contract and Ball Aerospace is the original source for P2RTM development. The P2RTM-FO contract, like the predecessor contract, will provide highly specialized services. Since the P2RTM award, the NGA/TZ office has evolved the integration strategy for tasking which: 1) Migrated the needs management functionality 2) Migrated the supplier management functionality 3) Utilized agile software development methodologies 4. In January 2014, NGA and the Mission Partner approved the PGMM acquisition. Central to this plan was the need to issue a new Request for Proposal (RFP) for the PGMM framework contract while utilizing current Mission Partner contracts for acquiring new applications and maintaining applications separately from the framework. NGA/TZ briefed the Mission Partner Acquisition Strategy Council in July 2015 where they received approval for the release of the PGMM Framework contract to industry. After the Mission Partner approval and legal concurrence, the PGMM Framework RFP was released 8 December 2015. During review of the Framework RFP, the Mission Partner Office of General Counsel (OGC) determined that in order to mitigate potential conflicts of interest the PGMM framework developer will be excluded from participating in all application capabilities which has caused acquisition schedule delays. Based on this acquisition approach and the current P2RTM task order expiration in June 2016, a sole source follow-on contract is the most effective method to alleviate any capability gap in P2RTM. 5. While other sources would likely be capable of performing this P2RTM-FO effort, only Ball Aerospace is capable of performing this highly specialized work within the timeframe required by the Mission Partner and NGA without a substantial duplication of costs that is not expected to be recovered by the Government through competition. The P2RTM contractor has developed an intimate understanding of the user environment and evolving operational needs that will benefit the Government as GIMS continues to evolve their program with the 11.4 and 11.5 builds while being able to support PGMM contractor handoff with minimal operational impact. Ball Aerospace possesses the requisite program management, domain knowledge, and technical expertise for bridge development efforts. 6. Source Selection is underway for a competitive source selection for PGMM framework and projected to award in 3Q GFY16. PGMM applications will be released on two existing Mission Partner contracts which were competitively awarded. The modifications needed for PGMM Applications is projected to award in 1Q GFY17. This transition is expected at ATP plus 4 months to allow sufficient time for another vendor to obtain training and technical data tagging/releasability knowledge to successfully sustain and enhance P2RTM capabilities and an application in PGMM operational baseline. 7. This notice of intent is being published in accordance with FAR 5.2 requiring the dissemination of information on proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract. The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 10 U.S.C 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a). There is a reasonable basis to conclude that the supplies or services are available from only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. 8. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to response to the requirement. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. 9. The point of contact for this action is Erik Rodriguez, [email protected].