ADOP A&AS Sources Sought Notice

This is a SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS Announcement. Sources Sought Synopsis announcements are issued to assist the Agency in performing market research to determine industry interest and capability. No proposals are being requested or accepted with this synopsis. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS AND NO CONTRACT SHALL BE AWARDED FROM THIS SYNOPSIS. The Government will not reimburse contractors for any cost associated with responding to this Source Sought notice. Description: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency safeguards America and its allies from Weapons of Mass Destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat and mitigate its effects. This mission is carried out through various non-proliferation, counter-proliferation, and consequence management activities. DTRA provides this counter WMD support to the Combatant Commands (COCOMS) worldwide, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, the military services, and other Federal Agencies. To assist DTRA in fulfilling this mission, DTRA is seeking interested sources capable of providing Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) support to the Operations Enterprise (OPS), Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Enterprise (CW), and DTRA Headquarters Liaison Support Office (LNO). A top level synopsis of these Enterprises/Office is provided below: The Operations Enterprise's mission highlights a range of activities that support DTRA's overall mission and includes: force protection/mission assessments; emergency management; operational planning and support; nuclear programs and stockpile operations; and training and inspections to Combatant Commands (COCOMS) worldwide, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Joint Staff, the military services and the Interagency. The Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Enterprise's mission responsibilities cross a variety of missions to include all technical, managerial and staff functions required to plan, integrate, and execute programs to support US Strategic Command, OSD, the Joint Staff, COCOMS, Services, Intelligence Community, and first responders through the primary tasks of leadership, plans support, threat intelligence support, operations support, and technical reachback support. DTRA Headquarters Liaison Support serves as Director's focal point for planning, coordinating, and facilitating Agency support to the Joint Staff, the Services, the National Guard Bureau, and the COCOMs and coordinates, integrates and monitors DTRA support. Potential sources either alone or with appropriate teaming partners must have demonstrated expertise and capability to perform A&AS support. Qualified sources shall assist DTRA by providing information, advice, opinions, alternatives, analyses, evaluations, recommendations, operational and technical support, training, and day-to-day administrative support to assist DTRA in the following areas: 1. Strategic and operational-level analysis of policy decisions, operational support, strategic workforce planning, program/budget management, organizational issues and DTRA campaign planning. 2. Acquisition program business case analysis, acquisition planning and execution, and source selection activities. 3. Resource management activities including budgeting, programming, and accounting, for the development, preparation, submission and justification of business process documents. 4. Antiterrorism Assessment Program support to the Joint Staff, OSD, and interagency support to Joint Staff Integrated Vulnerability Analysis (JSIVAs) for the U.S. and Allied Antiterrorism and Force Protection Programs; vulnerability assessments for systems survivability of U.S. and Allied systems and other foreign systems; and support to identify and characterize signatures for hardened and mobile systems. 5. Operational and Technical support in the development of program planning processes, examination and application of new doctrines, policy and technologies, as well as operational and technical support to U.S. Consequence Management programs concerning chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threat defense, deterrence, detection and distribution. 6. Scientific, engineering, technical, and operational review and program management to analyze and evaluate classified programs for feasibility, cost-effectiveness as well as assist in the development of production and operational milestones and budgets. 7. Operational and technical support for planning, defining, developing, maintaining, integrating, coordinating, executing, reviewing, and documenting programs and activities involving training, knowledge management, experimentation, lessons learned, doctrine, and other support associated with the training and inspections. 8. Implementation of the Combat Support Agency Review Team's (CSART) recommendation(s) to improve the security cooperation process within DTRA. 9. Planning and implementation of nuclear weapons stockpile operations systems (e.g., the Defense Integration and Management of Nuclear Data Services (DIAMONDS) and Nuclear Management Information System (NUMIS)). 10. Operational and technical support of programs concerning nuclear and radiological threat defense, deterrence, detection and distribution. 11.Scientific, technical, engineering, program management, and operational expertise support to the OSD, Joint Staff, COCOMs, military services and U.S. negotiated bilateral and multinational alliances and processes. This includes wargaming, war planning, WMD/Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC), infrastructure engineering, computer science, statistics, nuclear weapons accident response, Improvised Device Defeat (IDD) technologies, training, nuclear security, nuclear reporting, independent validation and verification of software, and Homeland Defense/Homeland Security disciplines. 12. The development of strategic Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) guidance, policies, doctrine, procedures, continuity, and contingency Plans with OSD, COCOMs, the Joint Staff and other DoD and federal agencies. 13. Technical and administrative support of Threat Intelligence initiatives including support obtaining, analyzing and reporting on all-source intelligence information. 14. Operational and technical expertise support of current global operations of the combating WMD mission to include the DTRA Operations Center to include support in the development, integration and coordination of future exercises, war games, experiments, and plans. 15. Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive (CBRNE) Decision Support Capability for planning, operations and post event analysis to COCOMs, OSD, the Joint Staff, Intelligence Community, command elements, and other US Government and first responders as required through technical reachback. 16. Operational support to the LNO office in their role as the Director's focal point for planning, coordinating, and facilitating Agency support to the Joint Staff, the Services, the National Guard Bureau, and the headquarters at COCOMs Headquarters. 17. Operational and technical expertise assistance to the DTRA LNOs at locations worldwide as well as to the Combatant Commands. Assist with the coordination and facilitate reachback to DTRA subject matter experts via the DTRA Operations Center. 18. General administrative (i.e. secretarial) support, such as assistance in preparing communication materials, coordination of internal and external tasking and responses, preparation and facilitation of technical meetings and conferences. These DTRA programs and initiatives include supporting U.S. participation in organizations and locations internationally and will require international travel and/or residing in a foreign country for various A&AS personnel. Scope of the Requirement and Time Frame for Award: In general, it is anticipated that a minimum of 40 and maximum of 75 Full Time Equivalent (FTEs) will be required per year to accomplish the aforementioned A&AS support tasks. The large variance in estimated FTEs is due primarily to the potential effect of DoD In-sourcing guidance on this requirement. Once a formal solicitation is released, DTRA anticipates an award for this requirement in July of 2010 with a period of performance of five (5) years. Technical White Paper Capabilities Statement: Contractors who believe they possess the requisite expertise and experience to meet this A&AS support requirement are encouraged to submit a Technical Capabilities White Paper to DTRA via email to ADOP_AAS@dtra.mil by 5:00 PM Eastern Time November 6th, 2009. The Technical Capabilities White Paper shall not exceed five (5) pages in total, using 12-point Times New Roman and 1 margin. In addition, contractors are required to complete the attached A&AS Sources Sought Questionnaire (Attachment 1) to be submitted with the Technical White Paper Capabilities Statement. NOTE: The five (5) page limit does not include A&AS Sources Sought Questionnaire. The agency also anticipates hosting an Industry Day conference that will be announced at a later date. The purpose of the Industry Day conference will be to provide additional information on this requirement and give industry an opportunity to seek further information on this pending acquisition. Additional information regarding this conference will be posted on the DTRA website as well as posted on the FedBizzOpps.