The Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) Joint Program Office (JPO) will host GPS Block III Industry Days #2 on 12-14 October 2005. The GPS Joint Program Office will develop and deploy the GPS III System in two separate contractual efforts. The two efforts will be the operational control segment (OCX) and the space segment (Block III). The goal of GPS Block III is to provide reliable and secure delivery of enhanced position, velocity and timing signals to military and civil users, while managing long-term total ownership costs. The GPS Block III effort is focused on design, development, deployment, and operation of future GPS Satellites. GPS Block III, in tandem with OCX, will achieve long-term GPS performance goals. It will reduce existing shortcomings and vulnerabilities that impede the ability of GPS to support future military operations and vital civil commerce, transportation, and public safety services. GPS Block III will fully support the Federal Radionavigation Plan and Federal Radionavigation System, and will address interoperability with all current and planned global radionavigation systems. GPS Block III will incorporate the space segments of the Nuclear Detonation (NUDET) Detection System (NDS), the Distress Alerting Satellite System (DASS), and the Space Environmental Detection Payload (SEDP). GPS Block III will enhance U.S. leadership in space-based navigation to meet the stated Presidential goal of GPS providing the world standard Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solution. The purpose of Industry Days #2 is to provide the update to the program priorities, acquisition strategy, GPS Block III systems engineering and integration approach, and roadmap to contract award. In addition to the updates the GPS Block III IPT will provide a classified overview of the Space Segment Specifications. To attend Industry Days #2, please register as instructed below (Registration). As part of Industry Days #2, each contractor team will be afforded an opportunity to meet with the GPS JPO one-on-one. The intent of these one-on-one discussions is to be heavily technical; therefore, the propensity of the contractor team should be made up of the/a Program Manager, Technical Lead and Engineering personnel. The intended - discussion schedule for the one-one-one sessions is anticipated to include: Specifications, draft Request for Proposal (RFP) sections, and System Integration. The Team is highly encouraged to take the time to register with and read through the available documents in the Bidders Library, as instructed below. If your team would like to participate in the Industry Days #2 one-on-one sessions with the GPS JPO, please make an appointment from the available time-slots as instructed below. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Primary POC. The Industry Days #2 presentations and follow-up one-on-one sessions will contain classified information. For updated information on Industry Days, including schedule changes or cancellation notices, visit www.eps.gov (FedBizOps.gov) and the Block III Bidders Library: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. BIDDER'S LIBRARY: Access to the GPS Block III Bidders Library can be requested at https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. The following is posted to the library: Industry Days #2 Registration Form Industry Days #2 Schedule Map and parking instructions for Aerospace Facility SS-SYS-800 Draft sections to the RFP will appear leading up to Industry Day #2 Comment Resolution Matrix Relevant Interface Control Documents/Interface Specifications Applicable Documents If there is something that is not posted to the library that you would like to see please contact the Primary POC. REGISTRATION: Please register by filling out the registration spreadsheet posted with this announcement for your entire contractor team and returning it via email to the Primary POC. If you experience difficulties in registering, please contact the Primary POC. The registration form is also located on the GPS Block III Bidders Library in the Industry Days Folder: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. A visitor request is required to gain access to the Aerospace facility where Industry Days #2 will be held. Visit requests including each person attending can be faxed to Aerospace Security - Attn Holly, fax number (310) 336-6983, comm. number (310) 336-5038. A map to the Aerospace Facility and parking instructions are posted to the Bidders Library. ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS: Each contractor team is invited to meet with the GPS JPO for a three hour one-on-one session during Industry Days #2. The available time slots and session format are listed in the GPS Block III Bidders Library: https://gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/login.asp. The GPS JPO will accommodate requests for preferred three-hour time slots on a first come, first served basis. Contact the Primary POC via email to reserve a session. Contractors are urged to submit questions in advance for the one-on-one meetings. Please send questions to the Primary POC via email. GOVERNMENT/OFFEROR TELECONS: The Government is also offering weekly telecons to each contractor team. The telecons will start the week of 12 September 2005 and run through 28 October 2005. Each contractor will be allotted 1 hour each week for discussions. It is requested that each contractor submit an agenda to the Primary POC 24 hours in advance of the meeting. Telecons will not be held the week of 3-14 October. Telecons will end on Friday the 28th of October. There will be no telecoms held after Industry Day #3. These telecons will be unclassified. To sign up for these telecons please contact the Primary POC. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS (for any resulting solicitation and contract): This effort requires access to and processing of classified information up to and including TS/SCI (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) and SAP/SAR (Special Access Program/Special Access Requirements) security requirements. This acquisition involves data that are subject to export control laws and regulations. A foreign disclosure review of the technical data has been accomplished and GPS Block III technical data are subject to export controls. Contact the Defense Logistics Services Center, 74 Washington Avenue N., Battle Creek, Michigan 40917-3084 (1-888-352-9333) or http://www.dlis.dla.mil/jcp for further information on the certification process. OMBUDSMAN: An Ombudsman has been appointed to hear concerns from potential offerors. The purpose of the Ombudsman is to receive and communicate concerns from potential offerors when an offeror prefers not to use established channels to communicate his/her concern during the proposal development phase of this acquisition. The Ombudsman will communicate certain offeror issues, disagreements, and recommendations on this acquisition into the proper channels. The Ombudsmans role is not to diminish the authority of the program director or the contracting officer but to advocate an offeror's concern on a non-attribution basis. The Ombudsman will maintain strict confidentiality as to the source of the concern when requested by the offeror. The Ombudsman will not participate in the evaluation of proposals or the source selection process for this acquisition. The Ombudsman is Col. Robert Catlin, Phone: (310) 363-3571, Email: Robert.Catlin@losangeles.af.mil . DECLARATION: This publication is for information only and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), Government sponsorship of contractor charges against any existing Government contract for attendance or proposal efforts, nor a Government promise to pay for any information received in response to this announcement. See Numbered Notes: 9
