D -- DTRA Agency-wide IT Services and Support

The subject synopsis is hereby modified to: 1) Change the Solicitation Number: the Solicition Number is hereby changed from HDTR1-08-R-0001 to HDTRA1-08-R-0001 and any further information regarding the subject acquisition will be posted under the new solicition number. 2) Regarding the DRFP (and subsequent RFP), clarify an industry concern about some functions identified on TO#1 and TO#2 being intertwined and how to respond accordingly in offerors proposals. The Government offers the following clarification: The Government is only providing Statement of Objectives (SOOs) for the three task orders. The offeror is to respond with a Performance Work Statement (PWS) for task order #1 and a Statement of Work or PWS for task orders #2 and #3. The offerors PWS/SOW will be placed on contract and the task order SOOs will not. The Government will evaluate the feasibility and soundness of your proposed approach. We are open and look forward to creative solutions. Your creativity just needs to be explained in the Narratives, and ensure it is in-line with your proposed PWS/SOW documents and overall approach. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has a requirement to obtain Agency-wide Information Technology (IT) Services and Support. A previous sources sought notice for this requirement was posted 21 Sep 07 under reference BIX070006989. That reference number was amended to BIX 070005809. Additional information regarding this requirement to include Industry Day Slides, List of Industry Day Attendees, and Draft RFP were posted under BIX070005809. You may access this solicitation and past information concerning this requirement on FedBizOpps and DTRA?s site: http://www.dtra.mil/be/business_opp/procurement/acq_procopp.cfm. BACKGROUND: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Chief Information Officer (CIO) is responsible for providing Agency-wide information management services and support to the Agency, supporting in excess of 2,500 customers Agency-wide, and utilizing Unclassified, Secret and Top Secret /Special Compartmented Information Networks world-wide. Since September 11, 2001, DTRA's mission has evolved to a more complex and robust mission, that requires a more integrated approach to delivering IT. DTRA recently consolidated the majority of its personnel and IT infrastructure within the Defense Threat Reduction Center (DTRC) located on the Fort Belvoir military reservation. In addition to the DTRC, the CIO provides IT services to several smaller field offices in the National Capitol Region (NCR), the DTRA Albuquerque office and other CONUS and OCONUS sites. REQUIREMENTS: DTRA intends to acquire services of an IT contractor that will become a performing partner for DTRA and the CIO, as well as an IT management team to support the CIO and the Agency's IT managers. The Agency needs a seasoned IT performer to focus on the integrated delivery of IT services and solutions supporting IT requirements across the Agency. The Agency requires the provider(s) to integrate the current IT environment into a centrally managed enterprise system capable of providing 24/7/365 IT functional support to all DTRA facilities, both CONUS and OCONUS along with providing built-in capabilities to address future enhancement, modernization and technology changes. Potential sources will be required to satisfy organizational conflict of interest requirements. The following provides a list of IT capabilities that DTRA seeks to obtain. These capabilities need to be available to support all of the Agency's developmental, operational, and business system networks at all classification levels from Unclassified to TS/SCI. Management Overall Comprehensive Management and Integration of the other six areas Implement and Institutionalize IT Infrastructure Best Practices Knowledge Management Business Intelligence Knowledge Management and Knowledge Based Systems Expert Systems Training and Training Support Common Services Continuity of Operations Planning and Disaster Recovery (COOP/DR) Plans and Capabilities Help Desk Services Systems and Network Administration, Hardware and Software Telecommunication Support Services Infrastructure Installs and Upgrades Configuration Management and Control Mission Operations Support Development of Operations Center Critical Technologies Dedicated Application and Response Computational Computing Support, and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) support Information Assurance (IA) Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) Operation and Maintenance IA, Computer Network Defense and Cyber Security support Certification and Accreditation support Architecture, Design, Engineering Enterprise Architecture Application Development and Software Engineering Design, Engineering and Integration of New IT capability Security Architecture Design Integration, Testing, Evaluation Technology Insertion Test and Evaluation Exercise and Experimentation High Performance Computing (HPC), M&S and Computational Computing Prototyping Technology Transition A single award indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) task order type contract is anticipated with a basic ordering period of five years and an optional ordering period of five years. Cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF), Cost-plus-award-fee (CPAF) and Firm-fixed-price (FFP) Task Orders may be utilized. Secret security clearances are required for contractor personnel. Contract award is anticipated for September 2008. This acquisition is unrestricted. A solicitation issue date of 28 March 2008, and proposal due date of 5 May 2008, are tentative. This is not an RFP and vendors should not submit formal proposals until the RFP is posted to this website.