Description
55 CONS/LGCZ, Offutt AFB, NE intends to extend the current USAMS II Multiple Award Contract (MAC), Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for a twelve-months POP using the sole source procedures under authority of 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) as implemented by FAR 6.302-1. Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements due to security requirements and large requirements for highly skilled workforce in USSTRATCOM mission areas. Task Orders under the USAMS II MAC IDIQ provide advisory and assistance services for USSTRATCOM, its components, and associate agencies. The six USAMS II MAC IDIQ Prime holders compete competitively on each new task order. The six USAMS II MAC IDIQ Prime holders are: - Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH): FA4600-08-D-9000 - MacAulay-Brown, Inc. (MacB): FA4600-08-D-9001 - Client/Server Software Solutions, Inc. (CSSS): FA4600-08-D-9002 - Exelis, Inc. (EXELIS): FA4600-08-D-9003 - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC): FA4600-08-D-9004 - CACI Technologies, Inc. (CACI): FA4600-08-D-9005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USSTRATCOM Mission: The Commander of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) is responsible for the global command and control of U.S. strategic forces to meet decisive national security objectives by deterrence and defense against enemy attack. USSTRATCOM provides a borad range of strategic capabilities and options for the President and Secretary of Defense, and specialized expertise to the joint warfighter. It is the command and control center for U.S. strategic forces and controls military space operations, computer network operations, information operations, strategic warning and intelligence assessments as well as global strategic planning. It ensures that forces of hostile nations cannot prevent our use of space, while enhancing the space operations of US and Allied forces. Additionally, USSTRATCOM has responsibility for Information Assurance for all US military agencies. Mission Areas. Command mission areas include full-spectrum global strike, space operations, computer network operations, Department of Defense information operations, strategic warning, integrated missile defense, global Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), nuclear deterrence, and deterring and defending against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These mission areas are not inclusive. Scope. The USSTRATCOM Systems and Missions Support (USAMS) advisory and assistance services (A&AS) contract supports all missions and requirements of USSTRATCOM. In addition, support is required for subordinate and supporting agencies, component commands, supported agencies, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), and the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA). These efforts include the mission areas listed above, as well as the following Joint Functional Component Commands (JFCCs): Global Strike and Integration (GSI); Integrated Missile Defense (IMD); Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR); network Warfare (NW) and Space. Also included are the following Funcitonal Components; Joint Information Operations Warfare Command (JIOWC), Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO), and the USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (SCC-WMD) and other Task Forces, the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA), and the Information Operations (IO). Support shall include all USSTRATCOM-related systems such as: the Integrated Strategic Planning Analysis Network (ISPAN); USSTRATCOM C2 systems; Command infrastructure; common-user and dedicated satellite control networks; the Space Surveillance Network; the Missile Warning systems; current and future operational spacecraft programs; National/Ballistic missile Defense Systems; Computer network Defense, Exploitation and Attack (CND/E/A); current and future commercial programs; a family of tatical space systems; national space systems; distributive C2 nodes/networks; and space launch vehicles to include new generation expendable and reusable launch vehicles and the overall integration of the various mission areas concept of operations. The USAMS effort also addresses intelligence, intelligence-related counterintelligence (CI), and the information assurance systems. Support Requirements. USSTRATCOM requires A&AS to support development of strategy and doctrine; long range planning; integrated priority list (IPL); necessary policies and procedures; capability and systems integration analyses and evaluation; war gaming; logistics support analysis and recommendations; documentation updates; and quick reaction technical support for all mission areas and associated command, control and communications. Technical expertise is required to guide the components in the development, acquisition, certification, and sustainment of their systems, supporting technical documentation, and subsystem architectures. Development of operational, systems, and technical architectures will be IAW the Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Framework Document. Task Requirements. The Contractor shall provide advisory and assistance non-personal services support for management studies, system engineering and technical analysis for USSTRATCOM, its components, and supporting or supported agencies. This end-to-end support includes all USSTRATCOM systems and missions. This A&AS support shall assure advocacy, operational, intelligence, and CI requirements are satisfied through technically feasible, integrated, cost-effective system improvements, programmatic acquisition recommendations, logistics support, integration, and procedures analysis. Support consists of planning, analyzing, engineering and engineering guidance establishment, system integration, information assurance, software design/development, configuration management (CM), and testing/certification efforts in order to define, document, and evolve the USSTRATCOM systems and procedures. It shall provide across-the-board technical expertise to ensure planned developments, system specificaitons, planned upgrades/enhancement, testing/certification and operational procedures throughout USSTRATCOM systems ensuring conformance with performance requirements. General Security Requirements. The Contractor shall implement and administer a security program to ensure that classified informaiton and documentation are protected in accordance with the latest appropriate Security Classification Guide for each project identified in the Department of Defense Cointract Security Classification Specification (DD Form 254). Contractor shall have a Top Secret Facility Clearance with eligibility to access SCI at time of contract award. Access will be required to cleared facilities, including, but not limited to, the JIOWC SCIF. Personnel Security Clearance Requirements. As a minimum, key contract personnel shall have active Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 6/4 clearances (TOP SECRET/SCI) prior to start of work on each individual task order in accordance with the DD254. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The follow-on effort source selection will not be completed by the expiration date of the current contract ordering period, 31 January 2014. The 12-month extension allows for the extension of USAMS II MAC IDIQ to 30 Sep 2016, extending the ordering period to 31 January 2015 per 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C 253 (c)(1) and FAR 6.302-1 (Only One Responsible Source and No Other Will Satisfy Agency Requirement). The rationale for this request is due to a lengthy acquisition review cycle above the base level exceeding the established milestones. Task orders will be allowed to continue performance for 20 months after contract expiration, until 30 Sep 2016 for the six Prime holders. This allows time to complete the follow-on source selection. This notice is neither a request for a competitive proposal or a solicitation for offerors. A determination by the Government to not compete this requirement is based on responses to this notice and is solely within the discretion of the Government. This notice should not be construed as a commitment by the Government. If a firm can provide the USAMS II MAC IDIQ services at full performance starting 1 Jan 2014, provide a capability package to the Contracting Officer and a copy to the Contract Specialist by the response date, 7 Oct 2013.