R -- Missile Defense Agency National Capital Region (NCR) Enterprise Portal capability and associated Visual Information Product Center (VIPC) activities

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intends to award a sole source cost-plus fixed-fee follow-on contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to provide services required for engineering, integration, management and execution of the MDA National Capital Region (NCR) Enterprise Portal capability and associated Visual Information Product Center (VIPC) activities. The contract will be for one (1) year with two (2) one-year options. This action is to assure uninterrupted, essential continuity of unique highly technical engineering, analytical and multi-media services required to support MDA’s mission. The contract will assure that during this period of MDA mission focus on reaching a near-term operational capability MDA will maintain a corporate real-time enterprise-wide management capability to keep all of MDA executing on a sensitive and timely schedule as a high-performance organization. CSC is the only company that has the current, requisite expertise to maintain the level of support required by the MDA. Current CSC personnel are key to preserving the Agency’s real-time integrated strategic communications capability while ensuring reliability, consistency, content management, and response times needed to support the Agency’s mission. The Portal staff, in concert with the VIPC staff, provides program analysis and content review of service requests and Portal content to ensure quality, consistency, accuracy, and adherence to current policies and directives. No other source would have the necessary level of expertise relating to both MDA research and program activities, or could achieve the required level without significant delays and cost that would impact MDA’s ability to keep its NCR management force informed, without negatively impacting MDA's ability to comply with critical short and long term mission requirements.