Collaborative milCloud Environment

Collaborative milCloud Environment NOTICE: THIS IS A SOLE SOURCE PROCUREMENT, NOT AN RFQ. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source procurement. The intent of this notice is to inform the contractor community of DISA's proposed contract action. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) intends to award a sole source contract to Jackpine Technologies Corporation based on FAR 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The purpose of this requirement is to continue the development of milCloud and add the additional functionality needed to support integration with DISA's next generation Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); the combined milCloud and IaaS capabilities will result in delivery of an ALVE (Application Lifecycle Virtualization Environment) which will be used to support DISA's Agile, Rapid Development and Deployment Model. The milCloud software is an embedded component of the ALVE and critical to a successful completion of the overall environment. Work accomplished under this contract will provide DISA with the ability to continue to provide milCloud services to the DoD community. Users shall have the capability to access DISA services on demand such as development, test, and production environments; provision virtual operating environments, build and test systems, and deploy to production. It will also allow the capabilities of the milCloud system to more tightly integrate with Forge.mil, the DoD Enterprise Test Framework (DETF), Secure Technology Application eXecution (STAX), as well as other DoD Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud technologies, environments, and services. This work will continue to provide the engineering enhancement and application software life cycle support for the existing milCloud baseline. The period of performance is 12 months plus two (2) one year option periods. The NAICS code for this requirement is 541330 with a size standard of $14M. No contract will be awarded on the basis of responses received to this notice. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. The Government will not be responsible for any cost incurred in preparation of proposals. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Notwithstanding, any firm that believes it is capable of meeting DISA's requirement as stated herein may submit a response, which if received within 10 calendar days of the date of this announcement, will be considered. All questions and/or responses must be directed to Jonelle Walters via email at Jonelle.G.Walters.civ@mail.mil. Telephone inquiries will not be accepted. A Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition will be posted within 14 days of award.