Request for Information No. 3: Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2) Increment 1

UPDATE 5/16/2022: The following questions were received by the Government and answers to those questions are provided as follows: 1. Question: Based on the detailed information requested in the RFI, we request an extension to the response due date to June 3, 2022. 1. Answer: The response deadline is hereby extended from 1700 hours EST on May 23, 2022, to 1600 hours EST on June 3, 2022. Send all responses to April Blodgett, april.l.blodgett.civ@army.mil with copy to Shannon McBride, shannon.m.mcbride6.civ@army.mil 2. Question: An interested party requested a page limit for responses be identified. 2. Answer: After careful consideration, the responses shall not be more than 20 pages, using 12-point font in Times New Roman, or Arial font style. Illustrations and/or tables may not be smaller than a 10-point font. 3. Question: An interested party requested the question depicted in #5 of the RFI be presented differently to understand the meaning. Question #5 states: Will vendor support technical services CLIN to incorporate and test future ECPs. 3. Answer: Question #5 is reworded as follows: How will the vendor support a technical services CLIN to incorporate and test future ECPs and drive modernization into the baselines and handle obsolescence across multiple baselines? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE 5/11/2022: NOTICE: The email address shown at the end of last page of the RFI is not assessible and no longer viable due to software updates. Please email all questons and responses to: April Blodgett, april.l.blodgett.civ@army.mil with copy to Shannon McBride, shannon.m.mcbride6@army.mil If you have used the usarmy.apg.acc.mbx.cpi2-inc11@army.mil please resend to April Blodgett with copy to Shannon McBride email addresses. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground supporting the Interoperability, Integration and Services (PL I2S), Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2), seeks industry feedback regarding the production of more survivable command posts that enable dispersed operations, reduce the current footprint, provide redundant capabilities for continuous operations, improve platform, system, expeditionary mobility, and incorporate camouflage and concealment to improve signature management. CPI2 Increment 1 (Inc1) program provides a scalable, integrated mobile command post (CP) with the ability to execute uninterrupted mission command (MC) under all conditions, including on-the-move (OTM), across multiple locations, with continuity of purpose, in spite of discrete breaks in communications. CPI2 Inc1 will develop, procure and field CPs (Tactical Command Post (TAC)/MAIN) at Brigade (BDE) and Battalion (BN) echelons, and Mobile Command Groups (MCG) for Corps and Divisions echelons. These solutions will integrate approved commercial and government off-the-shelf (COTS/GOTS) systems, as well as government programs of record (PoRs) that support CP operational needs. This is the third RFI in relation to this effort. To access the prior RFI's search using the term - Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2) Program. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes - it does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. This request for information does not commit the Government to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. The Government is not seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. Respondents are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative costs incurred in responding to this RFI; all costs associated with responding to this RFI will be solely at the interested parties expense. Not responding to this RFI does not preclude participation in any future RFP, if issued. If an RFP is released, it will be synopsized on the Sam.gov website. It is the responsibility of the interested party to monitor this site for additional information pertaining to this requirement. All material submitted in response to this RFI must be unclassified. RFI Responses shall include the following: Company Profile - Describe your company's core business. Please include the following: company name, company address, points-of- contact information including name, phone number, and e-mail address, number of employees, annual revenue history, office location, CAGE code, UEI number, NAICS code and current business size contract status. If your company has not registered in sam.gov, you are encouraged to do so now since you must be registered to receive a contract. Corporate Experience - Described prior/current Department of Defense (DoD) corporate experience performing efforts of similar size and scope within the last three (3) years, including contract number, organization supported, indication of whether as a prime or subcontractor, contract value, Government point of contact, and a brief description of the specific task areas in the referenced contract as it relates to the services described herein. Please indicate whether you have a Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) and U.S. Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control and Communications - Tactical (C3T) specific experience. The unique Government requirements are: Security Requirements - The contractor will be required to have at a minimum, a Secret Security Clearance for all personnel with exception to administrative support personnel. The contractor shall also be required to have Secret Facility Clearance and Secret Safeguarding. Subcontractor Management - A Government contractor (prime contractor) will be required to provide a Subcontracting Plan and to commit to ensuring that Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), small disadvantaged, women-owned, veteran-owned, and service-disabled veteran owned small business concerns are provided maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors in the performance of this effort. CPI2 Request for Information #3 Questionnaire: NAIC 335999 All other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment & Component Manufacturing with a size standard of 500 employees. The Government, dependent on availability of funds, plans to take delivery of various CPs, in accordance with the performance work statement (PWS) (Attachment 1) and fielding schedule (Attachment 2 and 3). Enclosures 6 and 7 are provided to interested parties to provide additional background and planning information on the CPI2 Inc1 project. 1. Please review the PWS and fielding schedule to answer the following questions: 1.1. Technical: Please provide an overview of the technical approach for ramp up through delivery and include: 1.1.1. What is the estimated average tooling time required to begin production? 1.1.2. Please indicate your estimated delivery schedule including how many you can deliver per month of each type of CP shown in the fielding schedule. 1.1.3. How many facilities and sizes are needed to accomplish if the Government issues a DO based on the 2025 fielding schedule? 1.1.4. How would you plan for, or mitigate supply chain delays and long lead items to ensure the CPs are delivered on time? 1.2 Digital Engineering 1.2.1 What digital engineering solutions and processes does your company provide that will enable rapid and robust changes to the technical baseline, to include such capabilities as: Requirements Management, 2D/3D visualizations and virtual spaces including AR/VR, rapid design generation based on proposed changes, conduct design trade-offs, Data and model-centric designs, and Configuration Management? 2. The Government seeks industry feedback on the following hypothetical questions. When answering these questions please consider the pros and cons of both a single and multiple award IDIQ contract. Please assume a single award IDIQ contract period of 5 years with 2 option periods of 5 years each. Also assume 2 or 3 multiple award IDIQ contracts of same contract period. Fair opportunity will be provided for each DO/TO. 2.1. Assuming the Government issued a multiple award IDIQ contract and another multiple awardee produced and fielded the 2025 CPs identified in the fielding schedule. The Government solicits for the sustainment of the CP under a new solicitation under the multiple award IDIQ contract and your company submits an offer and wins. As long as the data, including latest TDP is provided to your company, can you perform the sustainment for the CP you didn't produce? If not, why? Please be as detailed as possible. Also include unknowns, if any, affecting price/costs and mission readiness. Can you sustain and warranty the CP if you didn't produce it? 2.2. Assuming the Government awards a multiple award IDIQ contract. It's been a year or two since you received a DO/TO. How would this impact your ability to retain personnel and facilities in support of this contract? 3. Given configuration management challenges faced with managing multiple hardware baselines, how would you make multiple technical baselines with multiple vendors - invisible to the user for the sake of ease of use? 4. What sustainment challenges would you face when managing CIs built by multiple vendors? 5. Will vendor support technical services CLIN to incorporate and test future ECPs? 6. How will the vendor drive standardization and warranty management across the command post commercial items to allow for universal plug and play experience for the users? 7. How would you promote interoperability with other designed baselines to drive standardization of command post experience for users and supply? 8. How would you facilitate 3rd party changes and ECPs to the technical baseline when taking into account multiple baselines from multiple vendors (i.e., another Program of Record change or COTS solution drives an ECP across all baselines)? 9. How would you work with organic capabilities for fabrication and repairs with Public Private Partnerships? 10. How would you manage upgrade/modification of fielded items to the latest technical baseline, especially when those items may be built by another vendor? 11. How would you address teaming to ensure transition of technical data, process data, and other critical data to mitigate the challenges of a multi-award contract? 12. What relationships with component and materiel vendors do you have to rapidly support a new TO award? 13. Based on your review of the attached performance work statement and information provided to date, what tasks are integrally related to prevent a multiple award IDIQ contract? Please address costs, administration, configuration management and sustainment in your response. 14. Provide suggestions on incentive approaches that would assist in promoting innovation, reducing cost and/or schedule. Please be specific. 15. Does your company possess an approved Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) accounting and purchasing system? 16. If you identify your company as a Small Business or any of the SB subcategories, then is your company interested in a prime contract? If so, does your company possess the capabilities to provide the entire range of these requirements? If not, what portions of this PWS are you able to support and how do you plan to accomplish it? 17. Pursuant to FAR Clause 52.219-4, Limitations on Subcontracting, the small business and similarly situated small businesses must perform 51% how you will meet this requirement if you plan on becoming the prime contractor for this effort? 18. As a prime small business contractor, do you have the financial resources to sustain your company until delivery is tendered by the Government? If no, what is you plan to mitigate the risk to the Government and your company? 19. If you are a small business does your company have experience as a prime contractor administering Government contracts? If you answered yes, please provide as much of the following information as possible; Contract number(s); Dollar value; and similarity of scope and effort. Have you experience as a prime producing commercial item that may be of similar scope, complexity and nature (provide up to 3 contracts)? 20. Please provide details regarding proposed joint ventures, teaming arrangements, strategic encouraged to identify teams, indicating each team member's size based upon the NAICS 335999. 21. Engineering 10.1 Describe your procedures and processes for handling classified and sensitive documents and material. 10.2 Describe your capabilities for configuration and requirements management 10.3 Describe your development process methodology. 10.4 Describe any core capabilities you have that would create value to a CPI2 integration effort. 10.5 Detail any software tools you would use to create technical documentation, CAD drawings, Configuration Management, process management, and knowledge management. 10.6 Describe any Modeling and Simulation tools, RF measurement capability, and design tools you have that would support decision making and design. 22. Production: 22.1. Describe your capability to modify vehicle platforms and shelters to meet new requirements. 22.2. Describe your capability to manage supply of materials as you develop products. 22.3. Describe your ability to store and inventory platforms and shelters throughout the development process. 22.4. The contractor may be responsible to produce 100 to 260 CPI2 integrated platforms and/or shelters in a given year. Please describe your capabilities and past experience in meeting this type of demand. 22.5. Provide details on any existing or potential production line you have or would acquire that would accommodate CPI2 production and integration. 23. Integration: 23.1. Describe your ability to integrate multiple differing technologies and support structure into a platform or shelter. 23.2. Describe your ability to engage with units/customers to customize configuration of equipment and vehicles according to their input. 23.3. Describe your organization's demonstrated ability and experience with the installation and configuration of switches and routers. 23.4. Describe your organization's demonstrated ability and experience operating Cyber Security and Risk Management Framework. 23.5. Describe your organization's ability to provide on-site integration of unit/customer equipment at a unit/customer location. 24. Testing: 24.1. The Contractor for CPI2 Increment 1 program will develop test plans and methodology based on existing standards and procedures as part of the technology assessment process. This includes development of detailed test procedures, identification of equipment, instrumentation, personnel requirements, test courses requirements, and definition of operational use case. The test and evaluation may be representative of mission scenarios encountered by the US Army in worldwide deployment. Please describe your experience and ability in vehicle and shelter testing that may include, but not limited to the following: 24.1.1. Ground Vehicle Testing 24.1.2. Performance/Mobility 24.1.3. Survivability 24.1.4. Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Durability (RAM-D) 24.1.5. Acceleration and Braking 24.1.6. Transportability 24.1.7. Road Shock & Vibe (RS&V) 24.1.8. Rail Impact Testing 24.1.9. Characteristics (examples: Center of Gravity, weights) 24.1.10. Rollover and Stability Tests 24.1.11. Vehicle Dynamics Testing 24.1.12. Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) 24.2. The contractor will be responsible for Safety Assessment Report (SAR) accordance with MIL-STD-882E that evaluates the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) hazards of the overall system. Please describe your ability and experience on the methods, analyses, and tests used to identify and assess hazards (both hardware and software) and their associated risks, the methodology used to rank hazards, and how ESOH requirements were met. 25. Fielding: 25.1. Describe your ability to meet complex fielding schedules at multiple locations that are geographically separated. 26. Training: 26.1. Describe your ability to conduct training for large groups, small groups, individuals and - train the trainer. 26.2. Describe your ability to consolidate training for multiple items, not of your own manufacture, into a single training package. 27. Initial Sustainment: 27.1. Describe your ability to meet initial sustainment for items fielding during the first two to three years after fielding 27.2. The contractor will be responsible to provide a supportability analysis report, summarizing the results of the Failure Mode, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA), and Preliminary Maintenance Allocation Chart (PMAC) development efforts. Please briefly describe your experience in your ability to provide supportability analysis results to inform documentation development. 28. Obsolescence: 28.1. Describe how you address obsolescence for components you control as well as those you do not within the systems you are developing and those that you have sold or fielded. 29. Technology Insertion: 29.1. Describe how you handle technology insertion into your products. 29.2. Describe your experience in working with engineering change proposals. 30. Relevant Experience: 30.1. Describe your experience in handing complex contracts, meeting oversight requirements, and satisfying the customers requirements. 30.2. Describe any large government contracts you have managed or supported and your roll in that contract. 30.3. Describe your ability to maintain accountability and control of government furnished equipment in past contracts. All material submitted in response to this RFI must be unclassified. PLEASE SEND ALL RESPONSES TO: usarmy.apg.acc.mbx.cpi2-inc11@army.mil (DO NOT USE, INVALID EMAIL ADDRESS) PLEASE SEND ALL QUESTIONS/RESPONSES TO APRIL BLODGETT april.l.blodgett.civ@army.mil AND SHANNON MCBRIDE shannon.m.mcbride6@army.mil. Attachments 1, 2 and 3 are provided for this RFI Enclosures 6 and 7 are provided for additional information regarding acquisition strategy and program requirements.