SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Inventory, Analysis, and Program Management Support of FPS Security Countermeasures
- Notice Date
- 2/19/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement Operations, Federal Protective Service, 701 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19106, United States
- ZIP Code
- 19106
- Solicitation Number
- HSHQDC-14-I-FPSNC
- Archive Date
- 3/26/2014
- Point of Contact
- Patricia Campbell, Phone: 2155212278, Marcus Mason, Phone: 8176496224
- E-Mail Address
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patricia.r.campbell@hq.dhs.gov, marcus.l.mason@hq.dhs.gov
(patricia.r.campbell@hq.dhs.gov, marcus.l.mason@hq.dhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Inventory, Analysis, and Program Management Support of FPS Security Countermeasures. This is a Request for Information (RFI) issued solely for information-gathering and planning purposes. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quotation (RFQ) or a promise to issue a RFP or RFQ in the future. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), Federal Protective Service (FPS) is seeking to determine if there are any vendors capable of performing inventory, analysis, and providing program management support for security countermeasures owned or managed by the Federal Protective Service (FPS). The requested information is for planning and market research purposes only and will not be publicly released. In accordance with FAR 15.201(e), responses to this RFI are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. BACKGROUND FPS is responsible for protecting approximately 9,600 Federal facilities nationwide (including Hawaii, Guam, Saipan, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands). This requirement supports the FPS in providing integrated asset management for eleven (11) Regions and a Headquarters component. Such an integrated approach to managing these resources will help the organization to overcome challenges rooted in existing infrastructure and in siloed and/or disconnected systems. Further, by breaking down multiple silos of non-standard, non-integrated systems, this approach will assist with aligning regional operations with business objectives. It can also support long and short-term planning, inventory control, enable preventive and condition-based maintenance, and assist the organization in making essential countermeasure recommendations. These analyses are necessary in order for FPS to manage risk and strengthen security resilience at FPS protected facilities. This will allow the organization to systematically coordinate activities and practices, and sustainably manage its countermeasure assets, systems, performance, risks and expenditures over their life cycles. SCOPE FPS has identified the need for all security countermeasures to be inventoried and the results and the data collected during the inventory populated into an Asset Management System that can easily interface with the DHS Sunflower Asset Management System for the purpose of inventory and life cycle management. As part of this requirement the contractor will be required to: Conduct physical inventory of FPS and/or GSA owned/managed security countermeasures; Agency owned countermeasures at FPS protected facilities; Conduct assessment of countermeasure operability; Assess where the countermeasure is in its current life-cycle and make a predictive statement/assessment of its future operability. All results shall be documented in a manner that can be easily/electronically updated and/or populated into the DHS Sunflower Asset Management System (SAMS). •Inventory: This includes but is not limited to Conducting physical inventory and identify make, model and serial number on all FPS and/or GSA owned/managed security countermeasures at approximately 9,600 FPS protected facilities. The following countermeasures shall be inventoried: - CCV Systems and components (Cameras, Digital Video Recorders / VCRs, Monitors and Multiplexers/Switches) CCV (closed-circuit television) is a TV system in which signals are not publicly distributed but are monitored, primarily for surveillance and security purposes. CCV relies on strategic placement of cameras and private observation of the camera's input on TV monitors. The system is called "closed-circuit" because the cameras, monitors and/or video recorders communicate across a proprietary coaxial cable, fiber-optic run or wireless communication link. Access to data transmissions is limited by design. CCV systems may include multiplexers that allows for multiple cameras being monitored at once on the same TV monitor. CCV systems may use a either Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and/or Video Cassette Recorder (VCRs) to record areas where cameras are pointed. - Mechanical (Retractable) / Fixed / Removable Security Bollards. Security Bollards embedded in concrete substrate around a building's perimeter that physically prevent vehicles from entering restricted or protected areas. - Mechanical (Retractable/Wedge Plate) / Fixed / Removable Security Barriers. Security Barriers physically prevent vehicles from entering restricted or protected areas. They are usually the last line of defense in a roadway, garage entrance or vehicle access point. The most commonly employed barriers are designed to stop a 15,000 pound vehicle traveling 50 miles per hours with no penetration. Barriers can be either "open or closed-loop" hydraulic or electric. - Mechanical / Manual Security Gates. These types of gates are either worm-driven swing or sliding and they are either electrometrical or hydraulic. These gates are normally installed to control vehicle assess to outdoor parking areas in and around Federal facilities. - Mechanical Drop Arm / Crash Beam Barrier. These types of barriers can be operated electromechanically, hydraulically or manually. They are normally used at vehicle access points with an arm that raises and lowers vertically, or rotates horizontally to allow or deny vehicle access. - Ballistic Shields/Podiums at Protective Security Officer Posts. These are bullet proof furniture type items used in entryways at Federal facilities. - Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) (Including Both Management and Reporting Consoles). A type of security system that gathers and analyzes information from various areas within a computer or network to identify possible security breaches, which include both intrusions and misuse. - Automated Access Control Systems (AACS). Either an electronic or electromechanical system used to authorize movement of personnel, vehicles, or materials through entrances and exits at Federal facilities. - Duress/Panic Alarm Systems. A wire or wireless alarm system used in alerting somebody in emergency situations where a threat to persons or property exists. - X-Ray Machines. Used to screen packages at entry/exit points at Federal facilities. - Walk Through Metal Detectors (Magnetometers). Used to screen personnel via a walk-through device at entry/exit points at Federal facilities. - Hand Held Metal Detectors (Wands). Used to physically screen individuals who require secondary inspection. • Assessment of Countermeasures: Conduct assessment of current countermeasure operability including but not limited to systems and individual system components. The assessment will determine where the existing equipment is in its current life-cycle and make a predictive statement/assessment of its future operability. RFI RESPONSES The detail provided through this RFI will better assist FPS in refining the necessary scope of work. Information offered shall also help define the procurement strategy selected that represents the best interest of the Government and the vendor community, and will supply a solution that will ensure mission success. Vendors responding to this RFI shall provide answers to following questions. RFI responses provided shall not exceed 10 pages and should demonstrate the vendor's capability to perform the tasks identified in the scope. 1: In your review of the above requirements, do you believe your company can support the full mission? If so, please briefly explain your approach and timeline for successfully executing this effort, to include detail on the potential use of subcontractors. In this brief explanation, please include any relevant efforts that your company recently supported or is currently supporting, to include size/scope and agency supported. If subcontractor support is anticipated, please detail the percentage of work supported per vendor. 2: In your review of the above requirements, do you believe such support can be provided for in full through a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), specifically a General Services Administration (GSA) contract? If so, please supply additional detail regarding the particular FSS considered or why you believe a FSS might not be appropriate in supporting the total scope of work. 3. In consideration of the above requirements, please provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) charge you would estimate for the purchase of each phase of your solution based on your company's analysis of the requirements. This may be in the form of specific pricing from applicable GSA FSS schedules, or commercial pricing if your company offers products / solutions on the Open Market. Any pricing information received is solely for information-gathering and planning purposes. 4: In your review of the above requirements, which North American Industry Classification NAICs do you believe such support is best covered by? Please provide additional detail regarding the particular NAICs supplied. 5: Has your company supported such an effort that required access or use of a DHS system and/or network? 6: Has your company supported efforts that have required cleared (Secret, Top Secret, etc.) support? Please provide additional detail supporting your response to this question to include whether or not your company at this time currently has the ability to provide cleared (Secret, Top Secret, etc.) support. 7: Based on of the information provided for in this RFI, is there any additional detail that you consider to be of critical importance that you feel will assist the Government in better defining its requirement and, in the process, selecting a suitable procurement strategy? Please be sure to include any/all information such as marketing and reference materials as appropriate in support of your response herein. 8. Provide a cover page with your response that includes the following information: • RFI # HSHQDC-14-I-FPSNC • Vendor Name • Address • CAGE Code • DUNS • Business Size Classification (Large or Small) • Type of Small Business, if Applicable • Point of Contact (Name, Title, Phone, Email) • Date CONCLUSION Please ensure that your response only addresses the questions provided for in this RFI. As noted above, a 10 page limit is set on all responses. RFI responses are due no later than 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 11, 2014. Submissions shall be made via e-mail only to patricia.r.campbell@hq.dhs.gov. Failure to submit an RFI response by the time and date established may result in the information/detail provided not being considered. FPS reserves the right to consider RFI responses received after the submission deadline at its discretion.
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