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NISC Enterprise Support Tasking (NEST)

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693KA9-26-R-00003Federal

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The NISC Enterprise Support Tasking (NEST) is a firm fixed price solicitation issued by the Federal Aviation Administration for a single award set-aside for Women-Owned Small Business concerns. The contract encompasses a 12-month base period with four 12-month option periods, for a maximum total duration of five years. The primary objective is to provide operations and maintenance support for the NIMS and CMIS systems, ensuring uninterrupted availability, security compliance, and quality assurance. This includes managing the integration of data from PRISM and Delphi systems and developing a financial dashboard to track metrics such as Estimate at Completion and Earned Value Measurement. Beyond maintenance, the contractor will serve as a Subject Matter Expert to provide architecture, design, development, and deployment support for a new software system required for the NISC V contract transition. The FAA will utilize a Best Value trade-off approach for selection, evaluating technical approach, past performance, price, and a transition plan. Key requirements include the prime contractor performing at least 51 percent of the work, maintaining necessary security certifications, and managing a potential organizational conflict of interest related to the design of the future NISC V solution. Proposals must be submitted in five distinct volumes by October 15, 2026.

General Info

FAA WOSB contract for NIMS/CMIS maintenance and NISC V transition software support.

NAICS

541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services

Place of Performance

Washington, DC, 20591, USA

Set-Aside

WOSB

Documents

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693KA9-26-R-00003 Solicitation, Offer and Award

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Exhibit 2: NIMS Capabilities Document & Diagram

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FAA NISC Enterprise Support Tasking RFI 693KA9-26-R-00003

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NEST Price Proposal Template

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NISC Enterprise Support Tasking (NEST) Contract Pricing Schedule

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NISC Enterprise Support Tasking (NEST) Question Log

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SIR 693KA9-26-R-00003 Attachment L001 Past Performance Questionnaire

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SIR No. 693KA9-24-R-00012 Attachment L001 - Past Performance Questionnaire

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Exhibit 1: Acronym Reference List

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Exhibit 3 - NIMS-PRISM-DELPHI Interface System Diagram

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NEST SIR Kickoff & Live Demo Presentation

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NEST+SIR+Kickoff_09SEP2026.mp4

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NIMS+Overview_09SEP2026.mp4

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AgencyDepartment Of Transportation → 693KA9 Contracting For Services
Contacts1 person available
OfficeWASHINGTON, DC, 20591, USA
Office AddressWASHINGTON, DC, 20591, USA
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FAA AAQ 410 Contracting Office

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***THIS OPPORTUNITY IS SET-ASIDE FOR WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (WOSB) CONCERNS***


**A LIVE NIMS DEMONSTRATION WILL OCCUR 09 SEP 2026, SEE L.8 FOR DETAILS**


The AJW-2 Directorate, AJW-2131 Implementation Services Group, provides technical, engineering, financial, budget, and management support to Technical Operations programs using the NAS Integration Support Contract (NISC IV Contract) and Technical Support Services Contract (TSSC).These are task order contracts that present contract managers with the task of managing the entire Task Order Management lifecycle, the Financial Management lifecycle encompassing the obligation and de-obligation of funds by integrating with FAA’s financial systems, PRISM and Delphi and the Invoice/Payments lifecycle. The NISC IV contract will also be transitioned to NISC V contract during the award period, which will require a new system to support the NISC V contract, while maintaining the NIMS system to close out the NISC IV contract.


This work requires a support contractor that will provide Operations and Maintenance services for the NIMS systems that is used to manage the current NISC IV contract using the existing technology stack and will provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure uninterrupted system availability. In addition, the vendor should maintain and run reports if required from CMIS system that was used to support the NISC III contract and is currently not active. The work also requires the vendor to serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) capable of providing design, development, testing, deployment and documentation of the new software that will be required to support the NISC V contract when required. This includes, but is not limited to, making recommendations regarding the selection of software architecture and software development tools that will be required to develop the new system.


The Contractor must provide operations and maintenance support for the NIMS/CMIS system, provide quality assurance and quality control, provide security compliance and ensure uninterrupted system availability. This effort also requires the vendor to serve as a SME and provide support with system architecture, software recommendations, system design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation for a new system to support NISC V contract requirements when required. Contractor will maintain NIMS/CMIS security certifications required to operate the software and its associated server hardware. The Contractor must also provide transition support to any potential new vendor at the contract’s end.


***THIS OPPORTUNITY IS SET-ASIDE FOR WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS (WOSB) CONCERNS***


**A LIVE NIMS DEMONSTRATION WILL OCCUR 09 SEP 2026, SEE L.8 FOR DETAILS**

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