NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB): Scenario Production at Joint Warfare Center (Stavanger, Norway)

Joint Warfare Center (JWC) is seeking contactor support to fulfill its requirement for Exercise Scenario Production. Companies will be required to support the Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation goal of developing and producing settings, baseline scenarios, and exercise scenarios to support NATO collective training and exercises. To achieve this goal, company personnel will contribute to the planning, development, sustainment, and execution of exercise scenarios that address geo-strategic situations in a variety of synthetic theatres of operation in accordance with JWC directives and direction. In order to bid on this project, a U.S. prime contractor must 1) maintain a professionally active facility (office, factory, laboratory, etc.) in the United States, 2) be pre-approved for participation in NATO International Competitive Bidding (ICB), 3) have performed contracts within the last three years substantially similar in scope to the requirement described in the solicitation, and 4) be nominated to the bidders list by the U.S. Government. Contractor personnel performing services under the contact must be citizens of a NATO nation, possess a valid NATO Secret level security clearance, and have appropriate professional training and experience in a related field. The contractor is responsible for ensuring that the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) forwards to JWC the required NATO security clearance certifications. The period of performance is 01 January 2015 - 31 December 2015 with the possibility of four option years (01 January 2016 - 31 December 2019). Option years are subject to annual review. The reference for the Information for International Bid (IFIB) is IFIB-ACT-JWC-14-07. BECOMING ELIGIBLE TO BID NATO ICB requires that the U.S. Government nominate potential prime contractors to the bidders list. Before the U.S. Government can nominate a U.S. prime contractor to the bidders list for this procurement, the firm must be approved for participation in NATO ICB. Firms are approved for NATO ICB on a facility-by-facility basis. The NATO ICB application is a one-time application. The application requires supporting documentation in the form of 1) a company resume indicating contracts completed as a prime contractor and 2) an annual report or set of financial documents indicating compilation, review, or audit by an independent CPA. U.S. firms can download a copy of the U.S. NATO ICB application from the following website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/other-areas/strategic-industries-and-economic-security-sies/nato-related-business-opportunities The application and supporting documentation may be submitted as e-mail attachments. If, when submitting the application, your firm is interested in a specific NATO ICB project, please include the following in the text of your email: - the title and/or solicitation number of the project - the name/phone/FAX/email of the point of contact for the bid documents After approval of your one-time NATO ICB application, the Department of Commerce will then know to follow up by issuing a Declaration of Eligibility (DOE) for that project. A DOE is used to nominate an approved firm to the bidders list for a particular NATO ICB project. IMPORTANT DATES U.S. firms should request a DOE (and, for U.S. firms new to NATO ICB, submit the one-time NATO ICB application): 17 June 2014 IFIB release (planned): 23 June 2014 Please note: Budget Committee rules allow for nominations to the bidders list past the IFIB release date and up until bid closing. IFIB documents will be posted on the JWC website: http://www.jwc.nato.int/ Bid closing (planned): 01 September 2014