SOURCES SOUGHT
69 -- New Army Training Information System (ATIS)
- Notice Date
- 9/4/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- MICC Center - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis), Building 2798, Fort Eustis, VA 23604-5538
- ZIP Code
- 23604-5538
- Solicitation Number
- W911S0-15-R-PEOEISATIS2
- Response Due
- 9/30/2014
- Archive Date
- 11/3/2014
- Point of Contact
- cynthia watson, 757-501-8123
- E-Mail Address
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MICC Center - Fort Eustis (Joint Base Langley-Eustis)
(cynthia.l.watson24.civ@mail.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This is a Request for Information (RFI). The Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) Fort Eustis is conducting market research to gain knowledge and understanding of available training information capabilities, and approaches to address challenges associated with a possible acquisition of a new Army Training Information System (ATIS). This is not a Request for Proposals (RFP). This RFI seeks specific Industry recommended approaches to challenges that may be encountered in implementing and deploying a cloud-based enterprise training information management system in the DoD environment. The scope of users encompasses all Active, National Guard and Reserve Component Soldiers, Department of the Army (DA) Civilians and small elements from other services/agencies. ATIS will provide the Institutional, Organizational and Self-Development Army training domains with 5 core enterprise capabilities to manage Individual, Collective, and Unit Training and Education (T&E) requirements. ATIS will reduce the overall cost of today's training environment by assimilating or eliminating duplicative, stove-piped information systems and replacing them with a centrally accessible, standards and role-based, Net-centric compliant system, effectively governed for architectural compliance. A small sample of tasks performed by the five capabilities is provided below. Training Enterprise Scheduling Capability This capability schedules resources and personnel required to conduct individual, collective and unit training, including: Installation Resources Scheduling Range Facility Reservations Classroom Facilities Management Training Supplies Management Training Development Capability This capability creates and manages products required for individual, collective and unit training, including: Develop War fighter Training Support Packages Develop Training Resource(s) Requirements Develop Programs of Instruction (POI) Develop Individual/Unit/Collective Task Lists Training Content Management Capability This capability stores, manages, and delivers learning content to the Institutional, Organizational and Self-Development Army Training Domains: Delivers Professional/Education Information Manages Course Catalog Creates Learner Registrations Creates Training Delivery Reports Provides Notifications and Updates Training Management Capability This capability enables the management of training planning, preparation, and execution across all Army training domains Provides Army Collective/Unit Training Management Enables Individual/Unit Readiness Status Reporting Provides Individual Training Records Management Supports Collective/Unit Training Mission Support Tasks Provides Event notification to higher/subordinate elements Training Resources Management Capability This capability provides the management and availability of training support resources Identifies availability of Training Enablers/Resources Sustains availability of Training Enablers/Resources Provides Training Resources Usage Reporting Supports Operational Tempo Analysis The Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) is interested in Industry recommended approaches and best practices for addressing the following 10 key challenge areas, see the attached slides for further details: 1.Data Center/Cloud Hosting ATIS is required to be hosted at a DISA approved core data center that is certified at security level 3 (FOUO data). ATIS Applications and operating systems must run on x86 hardware. The applications must be capable of running in a virtualized environment. The approved operating systems are: Windows Server, Red Hat Linux 6.x, and Solaris x86. What current or potential Level 3 certified cloud provider do you recommend and why? What strategy do you recommend for migrating existing systems (if necessary) to this cloud provider? What business continuity strategy do you recommend to provide 24/7 service and high availability? What cloud framework do you recommend? 2.Software as a Service (SaaS) ATIS capabilities will be delivered to end users primarily via the web. ATIS is interested in SaaS as a means of delivering these capabilities. What SaaS options do you recommend that would be compliant with the DISA requirement? What external machine-to-machine integration capabilities does this SaaS option provide? What automated Service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring strategy would you recommend? 3.Agile Development ATIS is considering the DoDI 5000.02 Model 3 increment build and deployment process. Model 3 allows ATIS to follow an agile development process. What agile development methodologies have you had success with in the DoD? What agile development methodology would you recommend for cloud based systems? 4.Mobile Computing ATIS is considering providing e capabilities to end users on DoD approved mobile devices. Given the current state of mobile devices in the DoD, what mobile capability roll-out strategy would you recommend? What application development strategy would you recommend (for example, native apps versus HTML based apps)? 5.Usability Usability is one of the core ISO 9126 software quality metrics. Ensuring high usability is critical to ATIS because it will be used by all Army soldiers and civilians who will have minimal training on the system. Ensuring usability requires formal, empirical testing with actual users. What empirical usability testing process do you recommend? 6.Performance and Scalability ATIS must be capable of supporting the active, reserve, guard, and civilian components of the Army. ATIS must also be able to support large data along with custom reporting, analysis, and queries. The ATIS web site must be responsive for users whether they are at home station or forward deployed. What scalable and robust data reporting and analysis capability do you recommend? What architecture design patterns do you recommend to help ATIS reach its scalability and responsiveness goals? What DoD compliant content staging strategy do you recommend? 7.Existing System Integration Depending on the alternative selected during the Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), ATIS may incorporate existing systems.. ATIS will also have to exchange data with external systems from different domains within the Army and with other services. What strategy do you recommend for incrementally incorporating existing systems into the ATIS baseline? What other DoD systems do you recommend ATIS exchange information with and why? 8.Architecture Governance and Change Management As a large and complex system ATIS will face many governance and change management challenges. The incremental (agile) deployment approach ATIS intends to use increases the need for strong and effective governance and change management. What architectural governance and change management approach do you recommend for cloud based, agile systems? 9.Security ATIS has an obligation to protect its system and user data from unauthorized and malicious access. ATIS must integrate with the DoD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and provide its users with single sign-on. What approach do you recommend for enterprise, cloud based security? What approach do you recommend for mobile application security? What approach do you recommend for integrating with the DoD PKI to provide centralized authentication and single sign-on? Are you familiar with any instances where combining Unclassified, FOUO data resulted in a need for Secret classification change? If so please provide details. 10.Data Standardization and Migration ATIS faces two challenges with its data: 1) migrating data from existing system to ATIS, and 2) standardizing data schemas within ATIS. What data migration tools and approaches do you recommend for importing and cleansing existing system data to minimize cost and schedule impact to the program? What training domain data schemas do you recommend ATIS adopt for internal and external interoperability? 11. Life Cycle Cost Estimate Within today's fiscally constrained environment, ATIS cost estimates need to be realistic If you were in charge of developing Life Cycle Cost Estimates for ATIS candidate alternatives what tools or methodologies would you use? What data would you require to create the cost estimates? INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPONDERS: There is a 25 page total limit on responses. Responses must be electronic documents in a format readable and usable by Microsoft (MS) Word 2007 (12 point font) or in PDF format viewable with the standard Adobe Acrobat Reader. Response must be provided in one file (MS Word or PDF), with a file name that only includes the Company Name and RFI Number. No additional data will be considered, no other document formats will be considered. Responses must be submitted via email and received no later than NLT 1700 hours, 30 Sep 2014 to cynthia.l.watson24.civ@mail.mil: The point of contact concerning this RFI is Cynthia L. Watson Supervisor, Contract Specialist Mission and Installation Contracting Command MICC-Fort Eustis, Contracts Division 705 Washington Blvd Ste 126 Fort Eustis VA 23604 Comm 757-501-8121 Proprietary Data: All information submittals containing proprietary data must be appropriately marked. It is the respondent's responsibility to clearly define to the Government what is considered to be proprietary data. Responders are advised that any data submitted to the Government in response to this RFI will be released to non-Government program support contractors for review and analysis. These personnel will have a Non Disclosure Agreement in place. This Request for Information is published in accordance with FAR Part 15.201(e), and is for PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a commitment by the U.S. Government, nor should it be construed as such. Respondents are advised that MICC is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of information received, or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted under this RFI. There shall be no basis for claims against the Government as a result of any information submitted in response to this RFI. The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of this RFI, or reimburse the costs incurred by providing the information requested under this notice. This RFI is open to any capable and qualified commercial source, and partnering is encouraged.
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- Zip Code: 23604-5538
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