Unified Network Operations (UNO) Request for Information (RFI)

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI)forPROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE, COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS TACTICAL (PEO C3T)PROJECT MANAGER, INTEROPERABILITY, INTEGRATION AND SERVICES (PM I2S)PRODUCT MANAGER, TACTICAL CYBER AND NETWORK OPERATIONS (PDM TCNO)U.S ARMY,ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS, MDUNIFIED NETWORK OPERATIONS (UNO)The Government is requesting that contractors review the Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) (attachment 001) and provide a response no more than (30) pages in length, (Times New Roman 12-point font) to the Government In Accordance With (IAW) the below submission requirements on the following questions to encourage competition and exchanges of information:ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION1. Required Company Information Organization Name: Address: NAICS code(s): CAGE Code: DUNS Number: Point of Contact: Core Business Summary:2. Please identify your company’s business size based on the primary North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code of 541512 Computer Systems

Design Services. The Business Size for this NAICS code is $30 million.Other than Small Business ConcernSmall Business (SB) Concern8(a)Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB)Woman-Owned Small BusinessHistorically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone)Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small BusinessCAPABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITY Please provide your company’s experience and/or capabilities as it pertains to this requirement for software metrics in the following areas: 1. Software Metrics - DevelopmentCommit Frequency:Development Cycle Time:Code Coverage:Quality:Productivity:Velocity:2. Software Metrics - OperationsDeploy Frequency:Change Failure Rate:MTTR:Requirement #1a) Does your company have experience supporting modeling and simulation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to simplify operational tasks while providing tailorable and scalable capabilities? If so, please provide the following: i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your companies technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to support modeling and simulation, AI and ML technologies to simplify operational tasks while providing tailorable and scalable capabilities.REQUIREMENT #2 a) Does your company have experience establish varying levels of authentication and access control while providing a secure and trusted environment where any Person Entity (PE) or Non-Person Entity (NPE) can access all authorized resources (including devices, applications, services, and data) from any place and at any time, while also letting the administrator know who and what is accessing those resources? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to establish varying levels of authentication and access control while providing a secure and trusted environment where any PE or NPE can access all authorized resources (including devices, applications, services, and data) from any place and at any time, while also letting the administrator know who and what is accessing those resources.REQUIREMENT #3a) Does your company have experience maintaining continuous software development and integration process while addressing emerging requirements and receiving continuous user feedback to improve performance requirements, techniques, and Concept of Operations? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to maintain continuous software development and integration process while addressing emerging requirements and receiving continuous user feedback to improve performance requirements, techniques, and Concept of Operations.REQUIREMENT #4a) Does your company have experience implementing automated testing across the DevSecOps pipeline for automatically reviewing and validating a software product? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to implement automated testing across the DevSecOps pipeline for automatically reviewing and validating a software product.REQUIREMENT #5a) Does your company have experience delivering modular and fully integrated products with a modular open systems architecture that is used across a network? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to deliver modular and fully integrated products with a modular open systems architecture that is used across a network.REQUIREMENT #6a) Does your company have experience working within a government provided software factory or provided a software factory environment to support the DevSecOps Model? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to work within a government provided software factory or can provide a software factory environment to support the DevSecOps Model.REQUIREMENT #7a) Does your company have experience integrating systems from multiple vendors to provide a common solution to a problem? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience.ii. Please describe the problem area, the architecture used to integrate the systems and the APIs developed.iii. How many systems were involved and how many vendors?iv. What kind of testing was involved? Please, describe the testing environment.v. How much development was needed to integrate systems? How much development was needed by the external vendors systems to integrate into your system?vi. Describe the user interface on the integrated system.vii. How was configuration control handled?viii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an exampleix. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supportingx. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order.xi. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, xii. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to integrate systems from multiple vendors to provide a common solution to a problem.REQUIREMENT #8a) Does your company have experience developing an integrated architecture using GraphQL and micro-services? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to develop an integrated architecture using GraphQL and micro-services.REQUIREMENT #9a) Does your company have experience implementing Digital Engineering concepts utilizing digital information management systems to design, engineer, build, operate and maintain complex integration projects? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to implement digital engineering concepts utilizing digital information management systems to design, engineer, build, operate and maintain complex integration projects.REQUIREMENT #10a) Does your company have experience developing training support packages for the Government with existing software releases? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to develop training support packages for the Government with existing software releases.REQUIREMENT #11a) Does your company have experience in providing virtual and/or online training? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to provide virtual and/or online training.REQUIREMENT #12a) Does your company have experience in writing Technical Manuals? If so, please provide the following:i. Example(s) of the experience,ii. Include the contract number and order number (if referencing an order) you are using as an example,iii. DoD Agency Name of who the contract/order is supporting,iv. Period of Performance/ordering period of the contract and period of performance if referencing an order,v. Whether you were a prime or subcontractor and which companies you worked with (if any) and an estimate of the % of work your company accounted for regarding the work outlined in this question, vi. Reference any metrics that document and capture your work efforts under the contract(s)/order(s) you are referencing which show you effectively meeting the work outlined in this question.b) If your company does not have experience or you would like to provide further insight into your company’s technical capabilities, please describe how your company alone or through a business arrangement (inclusive of joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic alliances, or other arrangements) has the technical capabilities to write technical manuals.CONTRACTING1. Please provide any questions, comments, and feedback on the attached Draft PWS and its contents.2. Does your company have a SECRET facility or access to one should it be required. Please provide details.3. Per FAR 16.104(i) and FAR 16.301-3 a contractors accounting system must be adequate for determining costs applicable to the contract or order prior to being awarded a cost-reimbursement contract. As such please answer the following questions below:a. Has your company ever been awarded or had experience with a DoD cost-reimbursement contract and/or order? If yes what was the total value of the contract and/or order?b. Does your company have an accounting system or are able to obtain an accounting system that was/is validated as adequate/approved for determining costs applicable to a cost-reimbursement contract by either:-The Defense Contract Audit Agency through an accounting system audit-The Defense Contract Management Agency-Any Federal Civilian Audit Agency-Any Contracting Officer of the Federal Government*Please provide details if you responded to any of the four bullets above.4. Considering the draft PWS please identify what contract type you believe is best suited for this effort. Please note different contract types could be used for different requirements within the PWS. For example, some work might be best suited as a Firm- Fixed-Price contract type while other work might be best suited for a Cost-Plus-Fixed- Fee Term contract type. Please be specific in your response.5. If the Government determines that the contract or any portions of it should be set-aside to small business concerns utilizing FAR 52.219-14 Limitations on Subcontracting, your company and if applicable its similarly situated entity will be required to perform at least 50% (percent) of the work, if this poses any concerns for your company please explain?6. Will your company propose on this effort? Yes, or No?a. If no, please indicate any PWS requirements that would preclude your company from submitting a proposal.b. Please indicate the amount of time required to develop a proposal, 14, 21, or 30 days.*** Responses to this request are due no later than 10 February 2023 @ 4PM Eastern Standard Time (EST). Responses to this notice may not be returned. ***RFI response date was extended from 01 February 2023 to 10 February 2023. This is an administrative action only.Please submit your questions/responses to:Mr. Jason Ucci, Contracting Officer- jason.t.ucci.civ@army.milDr. Renee J. Bayton, Contract Specialist - renee.j.bayton.civ@army.milMr. Kyle Gorham, Contract Specialist - Kyle.a.gorham2.civ@army.milTHIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF CONTRACT OR TASK ORDER RFP ISSUANCE. This RFI is issued for the purpose of developing a viable RFP that will best communicate the Government's requirements to industry through this exchange of information. Responses to this RFI are voluntary and will not affect any contractor's ability to submit a proposal if, or when, an RFP is released. This RFI is for planning purposes only and does NOT constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that a procurement action will be issued.No entitlement to payment by the Government of direct or indirect costs or charges will arise because of the submission of information in response to this RFI.Proprietary information shall NOT be submitted in response to this RFI, nor will the Government be liable for or suffer any consequential damages for any improperly identified proprietary informationNo award will be made because of this RFI. This RFI is for informational purposes only to promote exchanges of information with industry. The Government will not pay for any information and/or materials received in response to this RFI and is in no way obligated by the information received.Attachments:001 Draft PWS