Industry Day for the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System Common Computing Environment and Platform as a Service (CCE PaaS)

23 February 2021: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the industry day planned for 24 February, including all one-on-one sessions, has unfortunately been cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your understanding and flexibility.  Please continue to monitor this notice for future updates on this opportunity and direct all questions to the Contracting Officer, Kurt Dronenburg (kurt.j.dronenburg@navy.mil) and the Contract Specialist, Avery Anderson (avery.d.anderson@navy.mil).The following have been modified:Government Presentation Wednesday, 24 February 2021 1000-1200 EST (time changed)One-on-one Meetings Wednesday, 24 February starting 1230 EST (unchanged)One-on-one Meetings Thursday, 25 February starting 0830 EST (added)Optional Feedback Form now available, due 25 Feburary 2021 by 1700 EST (new)All question and answers

will be posted to https://beta.sam.gov/ no later than 12 March 2021 (date changed)Everything else remains unchanged.========================================================================================The Submarine Tactical and Weapons Control Program office, PMS425, in conjunction with PEO SUB-S is hosting an industry Day for the Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System Common Computing Environment and Platform as a Service (CCE PaaS) contract virtually on 24 February 2021. The virtual location will be provided upon confirmation of attendance.The agenda will be as follows:Government Presentation Wednesday, 24 February 2021 0900-1100 ESTOne-on-one Meetings Wednesday, 24 February starting 1230 ESTPMS425 will present a brief overview of the CCE and PaaS Strategy the morning of 24 February 2021, to include a question and answer session. The remainder of the Industry Day Event will provide opportunities for one-on-one meetings with the acquisition team, which must be scheduled in advance.The CCE and PaaS is a new requirement for the AN/BYG-1 Combat Control System and this contract is intended to support efforts for the Technology Insertion (TI) and software development cycles starting with TI-24. The purpose of CCE and PaaS is to establish a PaaS to manage the SWFTS Infrastructure formerly managed by the individual subsystems, such as Combat Control, Sonar, Imaging and Electronic Warfare. The CCE and PaaS will include applications that perform network monitoring, reliability management, team training, mediation, time distribution, directory services, geographic imagery services, common storage, data recording and archiving, and video distribution. It will also include a separate PaaS instantiation for redundancy to ensure that all Ship Safety/Self Protect and critical submarine mission requirements are met. The CCE PaaS is a common computing environment where virtualized and/or containerized software modules can be hosted. Requirements include software development and integration of over fifteen (15) internal core components that are critical for the effective and suitable mission accomplishment of twenty (20) SWFTS subsystems.Future capabilities will also include the coordination and management of the CCE PaaS for all SWFTS Subsystems, including, but not limited to the Cyber Security, Tactical, and Payload Control Systems within AN/BYG-1, the AN/BQQ-10 Submarine Sonar System, the AN/BVY-1 Imaging System, AN/BLQ-10 Electronic Warfare, and other smaller subsystems and applications within SWFTS. This will include hardware and network management, including both an in-band tactical network and an out-of-band management network. The end-item will be an environment (private cloud) residing on hardware on US and Australian Navy submarines that are not always connected to the Navy infrastructure.This contract will be for the design, development, and delivery of software only. Tactical hardware will be purchased under other contract vehicles; however, the incumbent may provide hardware requirement input for the Government’s consideration to ensure the hardware will meet software requirements. The incumbent may also be required to purchase lab hardware.Points of Contact:The Contracting Officer for the CCE PaaS is Kurt Dronenburg at kurt.j.dronenburg@navy.mil, (202) 781-1346. The Contract Negotiator is Avery Anderson at avery.d.anderson@navy.mil; (202) 781-3355. Pleaseregister to attend Industry Days no later than 17 February by emailing both of the above individuals with the Subject Line as follows:CCE PaaS Industry Day EventIn email please also indicate if you would like to have a one-on-one meeting with the acquisition team, so we can schedule a time specifically for your company. All interested parties are encouraged to attend the Industry Day – Live Broadcast.The following are instructions for registering and attending CCE and PaaS Industry Day and one-on-one meetings:Register your company by email to attend this industry day event no later than Wednesday, 17 February 2021. Please include company name, business size, point of contact, address, telephone number, and email address. Please identify your company number of attendees.One-on-one meetings will be scheduled as needed, at the schedule availability of the Government on 24 February, 2021 in 20 minute slots starting at 1230. Please provide a list of attendees.No proprietary data is to be revealed, discussed, or exchanged. Question and answers are posted publicly.All question and answers will be posted to https://beta.sam.gov/ no later than 5 March 2021.Please note that all prospective contractors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www.sam.gov in order to be awarded a Department of Defense contract.Be thinking of the following:What do you consider to be the essential elements to ensure a successful program?Explain how you deal with coordinating between multiple subsystems?What is your experience with creating customized commercial technology solutions to provide transparency/traceability for USG and customer?What type of performance metrics would you track on this contract and why?What is the best way to make sure we have significant Small Business participation?Do you plan to utilize any teaming strategies?Any questions concerning this acquisition must be submitted in writing to the PCO and Negotiator for distribution to the acquisition team. Do not provide proprietary information in your questions. All questions and answers will be publicly posted here for all interested parties. Additionally, company participant list will be publicly posted.This Industry Day Notice is issued solely for information and planning purposes and all information provided is subject to change. It does not constitute a solicitation (Request for Proposal or Request for Quotations) or a promise to issue a solicitation in the future. This Virtual Industry Day Notice does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service. The Government is not, at this time, seeking proposals. Responders are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in response to this Virtual Industry Day Notice. The Government will not assume liability for costs incurred by any attendee. All costs associated with responding to this Virtual Industry Day Notice will be solely at the responding party's expense.