A Pre-Solicitation Industry Conference on the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) Integrated Test and Analysis Contract (ITAC) is scheduled for Wednesday, 19 July 2006. Conference will be from 13:00 PM to 15:00 PM CST (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM CST). The conference will take place at the Four Points Sheraton, Huntsville Airport, 1000 Glenn Hearn Blvd, Huntsville, AL 35824(phone number
+1 (555) 000-0000). Conference attendees can park in the Four Points Sh eraton parking lot and have their ticket validated at the front desk. Conference attendance will be by electronic registration only and will be available at the following website NLT 16 June 2006: http://www.smdc.army.mil/contracts/itac.html. Registrati on will be available through July 17, 2006. The Government is not liable for any expenses incurred by an attendee or eventual offeror in order to attend this conference. This conference is not open to participation for foreign firms at either the prime o r subcontract level. The conference will address technical requirements, contractual and business-related issues, as well as information on the acquisition strategy and the schedule. Interested parties may also submit questions/issues you would like to h ave addressed at the conference to Nicole Meenen by email (
contact@example.gov) no later than 30 June 2006. Correspondence should reference ITAC RFP number W9113M-06-R-0017. The contract requires an integration contractor team to plan, organize and coordinate operations/tests/analyses with comprehensive, widely distributed experimental weapons systems, or credible representations thereof, such as Ground Base d Midcourse Missile Defense hardware/element labs, early warning radars, sea-based missile defense elements, mid and lower tier missile defense elements, or representative element simulations; and/or other equipment of interest, such as communications netw ork hardware/simulation, command and control, and/or threat systems data. Combinations may include, but are not limited to items such as weapons system Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) laboratories, Software-in-the-Loop (SWIL), detailed (up to and including de tailed engineering level) modeling and simulation (M&S) products, trustworthy databases reflecting detailed weapon system operations, threat system representations and /or any other asset required, for integrated test and analysis experiments. Initial em phasis is expected by SMDC/ARSTRAT to be placed upon but not be limited to all varieties of missile defense operations (and related offensive operations) against threats in all phases of operational envelopes. Test and analysis experimental configurations are customer driven in accordance with directly stated objectives or derived from senior leadership expectations. To perform this scope of work (SOW), SMDC/ARSTRAT and the ITAC contractor shall seek out partnerships with DoD and other US Government organi zations (and their lead contractor organizations) to obtain the requisite capabilities. Task orders will be issued by the SMDC/ARSTRAT to accomplish the ITAC requirements. Several US Government supported efforts are expected to be integrated into the per formance of this contract through the use of directed subcontractors to the ITAC prime contractor. Each present or future Directed subcontractor is precluded from participating as a member of the prime team. The Missile Defense System Exerciser (MDSE) dev eloped by Teledyne Brown Engineering is expected to be heavily leveraged with the ITAC tasks, but the scope of ITAC is more comprehensive than just existing (circa 2006) MDSE operations. Likewise, the Ground Based Midcourse Missile Defense Embedded Test ( ET) capability developed by the Boeing Company is expected to be leveraged along with the Integrated System Test Capability (ISTC) resources and US Government supported contractor radar laboratories operated by the Raytheon Company. The center for these activities is expected to be at Government facilities that have yet to be identified. The anticipated competition will be a small business set-aside and will result in an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with a period of performance of five years with one five-year award term. It is anticipated that the requirements will be executed via task orders issued, based on actual customer requirements. ITAC integration tasks shall revolve around (but not be limited to) the following core functions: program and task management; derive specific ITAC requirements from customer event de finitions; purchase task-enabling hardware, software, network, or any other material items; integrate geographically distributed customer-specified assets into acceptable test and analysis event configurations; provide operational networks of HWIL, SWIL, c ommunication linkages, etc.; perform functional and qualification testing; perform and/or assist customer agents with event operations; arrange for data collection, storage, processing, and delivery; assist independent verification, validation, accreditati on, and qualification agents; and assist independent configuration management agents. Software developed incidental to the performance of the contract shall be delivered to the Government as both source and executable code and shall be considered a Special Work pursuant to DFARs 252.227-7020, Rights in Special Works. The resultant contract will contain an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) clause that could limit a successful proposer from participating in any other SMDC contracts. To the greatest extent possible, while still protecting the Governments interest s, the OCI clause will be applied only for the supported technology areas of the contractors actual technical analysis performance. The NAICS code for this small business set-aside competition is 541710/1000 employees. This acquisition will not be open to participation by foreign firms at either the prime or subcontract level. Schedule, OCI clauses, draft RFP, and any other draft doc uments/information will be posted and updated on the USASMDC website http://www.smdc.army.mil/Contracts/itac.html.
