The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking sources to assist in understanding the capabilities available in the marketplace relevant to Capacity Services Communications III (CSCIII).

The DISA J9 Hosting and Compute (HaC) Infrastructure & Sustainment Line of Business (HC33) is seeking sources interested and capable of providing a solution to this follow-on requirement. DISA is a provider of information technology solutions for the Department of Defense (DoD). DISA's DoD customers require processing, storage, and communications services for a variety of applications. DISA must have the ability to provide communications capacity in a timely manner whenever and wherever the requirements occur. The purpose of this contract is to provide state-of-the-art communications infrastructure capacity to meet new and emerging customer requirements as well as the ability to replace existing DISA communications capacity that has exceeded its technical or economic life, as determined by the Government. Capacity Services provides a means to reduce cost and increase technical capability. The current solution provides hardware and software equipment including routers, switches, appliances, monitoring equipment, monitoring, reporting software and other supporting devices, as well as services, on an as needed basis. This solution affords DISA flexibility and the total scope of required services to meet the requirements of security, availability, scalability, and modernization of the communication infrastructure. The service provider should be able to deliver a reliable, responsive, secure, and cost-effective communication infrastructure services and equipment purchases for both DISA and other DISA approved locations. The service provided should result in a dynamically scalable communications capability utilizing an on-demand service approach for new equipment that can readily adjust to both increase and decrease in communications requirements and one that is priced on a utility (as used) basis for communication hardware. For all communications applications the service provider will acquire, install, uninstall, transport, power up configuration, and provide the necessary hardware, hardware maintenance, communications operating software and services to support the communication infrastructure associated as a capacity service. The anticipated Period of Performance (April 2025 - April 2035) will be a five (5) year base period with five (5), one (1) year renewal options for a total lifecycle of ten (10) years. The anticipated Place of Performance is: Current Environment. DISA currently provides communication capacity services at multiple computing facilities in both CONUS and OCONUS locations. Eight (8) DISA Host and Computer Center managed computing facilities in the CONUS: - Columbus, OH - Jacksonville, FL - Pensacola, FL - Mechanicsburg, PA - Montgomery, AL - Ogden, UT - Oklahoma City, OK - San Antonio, TX Six (6) current OCONUS Host and Compute Center managed locations are: - Stuttgart, Germany - Wiesbaden, Germany - Ford Island, Hawaii - Bahrain - Al Udeid AB - Yokota Air Base, Japan Four (4) SCCA Off-Prem Cloud Access Point sites - Ashburn, NC - Chicago, IL - Dallas, TX - San Jose, CA Two hundred fifty-four (254) Mission Partner sites worldwide. Future locations. The Contractor shall have the ability to support DISA or DISA approved locations worldwide. DISCLAIMER: THIS SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT. RESPONSES IN ANY FORM ARE NOT OFFERS AND THE GOVERNMENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO AWARD A CONTRACT AS A RESULT OF THIS NOTICE. NO FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR PREPARATION OF RESPONSES TO THIS NOTICE. ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY RESPONDENTS IS STRICTLY VOLUNTARY. CONTRACT/PROGRAM BACKGROUND: Contract Number: HC102818D0041 Contract Vehicle: Firm-Fixed Price / Open Market Incumbent and their size: Knight Point Systems, LLC (Large) Method of previous acquisition: Full and open competition Period of performance: April 2018 - April 2028 REQUIRED CAPABILITIES: For the purposes of this Sources Sought, the technical requirements have been provided and outlined in Attachment 1 and Appendix 5. This document is to be used as a reference document only when asking questions about the requirement. a. Describe your experience providing solutions that are highly available (minimum 99.95% up to 99.999% availability) and readily scalable to adjust to increases and decreases in required communications capability. b. Describe your experience in providing solutions that are deployed and priced on a utility (as used) basis. c. DISA requires support at all present and potential sites worldwide. Sites may increase or decrease depending on DISA mission requirements. For a list of all current DISA and DISA approved locations, see Attachment 1 of this sources sought. Describe your experience providing support on a worldwide basis. d. DISA and its DOD customers require processing, storage, communications, and secure information delivery services for a variety of applications. Describe your technical experience providing these types of services at the magnitude of this requirement. e. Describe your experience in providing preventive, predictive, and remedial maintenance for Communication Capacity Services. f. Describe your experience in providing solutions that can support hybrid and multi-cloud requirements. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: The work to be performed will require Secret level access eligibility for personnel. Therefore, the company must have a final Secret Facility Clearance (FCL) from the Defense Security Service (DSS) Facility Clearance Branch (FCB). Please provide your current FCL. All contractor personnel assigned to this contract shall be U.S. citizens. Must obtain TESA/ASSA accreditation to comply with German labor laws. SOURCES SOUGHT: The North American Industry Classification System Code (NAICS) for this requirement is 541519, with the corresponding size standard of $34M. In order to make a determination for a small business set-aside, two or more qualified and capable small businesses must submit responses that demonstrate their qualifications. Responses must demonstrate the company's ability to perform in accordance with FAR clause 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting. To assist DISA in determining the level of participation by small business in any subsequent procurement that may result from this Sources Sought Notice, provide information regarding any plans to use joint ventures (JVs) or partnering. Please outline the company's areas of expertise and those of any proposed JV/partner who combined can meet the specific requirements contained in this notice. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Responses should include: 1)Business name and address; 2)Name of company representative and their business title; 3)Small Business Socio-economic status (if small); 4)CAGE Code; 5)Prime contract vehicles; to include ENCORE III, SETI, NIH CIO-SP4, NASA SEWP V,General Service Administration (GSA): OASIS, ALLIANT II, VETS II, STARS III,MAS (including applicable SIN(s), groups or pools), or any other Government Agencycontract vehicle that allows for decentralized ordering. (This information is for marketresearch only and businesses with a valid cage that lack prime contract vehicles are stillencouraged to respond to this notice.)Businesses who wish to respond must send a response via email NLT 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on February 9, 2024 to the Contracting Officer, Lori Dall, lori.m.dall.civ@mail.mil and Contract Specialist, David Long, david.c.long20.civ@mailmil. Interested businesses should submit a brief capabilities statement package addressing the specific questions above (no more than five pages) demonstrating the ability to perform the services listed under Required Capabilities. Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received that is marked Proprietary will be handled accordingly. All submissions become Government property and will not be returned. All government and contractor personnel reviewing submitted responses will have signed non-disclosure agreements and understand their responsibility for proper use and protection from unauthorized disclosure of proprietary information as pursuant to 41 USC 423. The Government shall not be held liable for any damages incurred if proprietary information is not properly identified.