SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Bending the Cost Curve PlugFest Plus Information System Acquisition - PlugFest Whitepaper
- Notice Date
- 12/16/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL/RIK - Rome, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, New York, 13441-4514, United States
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- RIKD-15-03
- Archive Date
- 2/4/2015
- Point of Contact
- Brian Shepard, Phone: 315-330-4533, Joseph Austin, Phone: 315-330-4310
- E-Mail Address
-
Brian.Shepard@us.af.mil, Joseph.Austin.6@us.af.mil
(Brian.Shepard@us.af.mil, Joseph.Austin.6@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PlugFest Whitepaper This is an informational announcement. The intent is to invite industry to participate in an industry day that will announce the first of many PlugFest Plus (PFP) solicitations and include some novel features such as a Plug Fest demonstration. Title: Bending the Cost Curve Plug Fest Plus Information System Acquisition Synopsis: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) provides engineering leadership for the Secretary of the Air Force Bending the Cost Curve (BTCC) Plug Fest Plus (PFP) initiative. PFP seeks insight from members of the Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Information Technology (IT) marketplace to help evolve fundamentally improved acquisition processes for rapid evolutionary development of open standards-based information systems. PFP Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 activities will include a portfolio of rapid cycle open system component prototyping projects. Awards for project performers will be under the terms of an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA). A PFP industry day scheduled for 20 Jan 2015 at George Mason University, Fairfax VA, will include an industry-led "Plug Fest" demonstration of the open system art-of-the-possible (see the Event Page at http://www.afei.org/events/Pages/default.aspx). Participation is open to all qualified vendors. Government will use this venue to solicit industrial recommendations for a persistent, distributed, virtual plug-test laboratory. Additional information is in the attached PlugFest whitepaper. The first PFP solicitation will address an Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance use case. Details will be announced at the 20 Jan 2015 PFP industry day. Award will be based on plug testing performed in conjunction with a PFP event to be scheduled in late April 2015. The procurement vehicle for the first PFP solicitation will be the Army Contracting Command C5 OTA. The C5Technologies consortium webpage can be reviewed at www.c5technologies.org. Follow-on PFP awards will be via an AFRL OTA, with details to be determined.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLRRS/RIKD-15-03/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03597747-W 20141218/141216234937-f1adfc3c39e046b047e4fa0f8f7e05ef (fbodaily.com)
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