Upgrade of the Central Alarm Station (CAS)

RFI for Upgrade or Replacement of Central Alarm Station (CAS) APP-12-7134 PURPOSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) seeks information from industry for a future upgrade to the agency's Central Alarm Station (CAS). The information that NRC gathers from this RFI and related market research is for planning purposes only and may be used to assist the NRC in planning an acquisition strategy if an upgrade or replacement acquisition for NRC's CAS is deemed appropriate by NRC. BACKGROUND The NRC CAS has been operating for several years with minor and partial upgrades to the existing security equipment, systems, and components. Through time, newer equipment and technology has been added to legacy equipment creating incompatibility issues and decreasing the CAS' capabilities as an efficient user-friendly management and monitoring station. For example, the functions of access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance are all segregated forcing alarm station operators (ASOs) to monitor and control numerous workstations (areas) delaying assessment times and in some cases response times. The addition of a new building (3 White Flint Complex) provides an even greater need to upgrade the existing CAS in order to ensure integration of all security systems (i.e., access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance) from all buildings creating a flexible and more efficient management and monitoring system that will benefit the physical security program for the next several years. The NRC CAS' current security system configuration consists of the following: - Access Control System: Consists of a global server and several Regional servers operating GE Security's Facility Commander. - Intrusion Detection System: Consists of a Bosch 6600 receiver for local alarm monitoring. In addition, NRC utilizes Federal Protective Services for remote monitoring capabilities and requires certain rooms/areas to be UL 2050 certified. - Video Surveillance System: Consists of a partial analog camera system utilizing digital video recorders and a partial Internet Protocol camera based system utilizing network video recorders, none of which are integrated with the IDS or ACS. QUESTIONS 1. Provide detailed commercial literature or other readily available information about current commercial item solutions that NRC should consider in upgrading or replacing the aforementioned GE-based CAS. Include make, model, and commercial list price information (but not a proposal or quotation) for those products and indicate their compatibility with the aforementioned GE-based CAS components. Also, provide detailed information regarding extent to which these products comply with applicable Section 508 standards (see www.section508.gov). 2. Is your organization an authorized reseller/business partner for GE information technology (IT) security solutions? If so, then please indicate what those solutions are and provide commercial price list(s) or range of prices for those commercial item offerings, both for products and related services. Please also indicate if any products discussed in your response are available on any existing GSA contracts and if so, please provide the GSA contract numbers. 3. Please describe your organization's status with respect to NAICS 541519 (150 employee size standard) (e. g., other than small business, small business, woman-owned small business, HUBZone small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business). 4. Describe your organization's experience over the past five years as a prime contractor providing and integrating a commercial item application of GE IT security solutions such as Facility Commander Wnx (FCWnx) in a Microsoft Windows environment for the integration of access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance into a central monitoring station. Also, please address your organization's experience with the GE FCWNx (Global Edition) multi-server system. Please indicate the scope (in detail), complexity, dollar value and period of performance for GE IT security solutions provided by your organization over the past 5 years as prime contractor, and provide the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses for customer points of contact for these projects that are familiar with your organization's work on those projects. 5. Describe your organization's experience within the past five years using the "C Language" interfaced with GE FCWnx, to include the complete configuration of an integrated access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance system. 6. Please describe your organization's experience centralizing and consolidating a central alarm station into a monitoring station with LED display panels and integrating other associated security equipment and systems, including but not limited to the integration of access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance. How would you show us what is the latest proven most up-to-date technology in access control, intrusion detection and video surveillance systems? 7. Describe your organization's experience providing operations and maintenance for GE IT security solutions (e.g., monitoring, trouble-shooting, emergency response, preventive maintenance). 8. Describe your organization's experience complying, or providing compliant solutions for federal agencies, for the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and NIST SP800-53 requirements for building security systems (e.g., security plans, contingency plans, risk management, patch management, and continuous monitoring). 9. Describe, in detail, your organization's experience with configuration change management and patch management on security systems and utilization of related performance metrics. Please describe your organization's experience addressing integration of power supply requirements with a new GE IT security solution. Please e-mail your responses to Carol Greenwood at Carol.Greenwood@nrc.gov by the stated response date deadline.