SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source for Accelerated Cloud Transition (ACT)
- Notice Date
- 2/9/2016
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, OCSA - Application & Content Delivery, Attn: OCSA Mail Stop S84-OCSA, 7500 Geoint Drive, Springfield, Virginia, 22150, United States
- ZIP Code
- 22150
- Solicitation Number
- HM047616C0013
- Archive Date
- 3/10/2016
- Point of Contact
- Brian K. Ellison, Phone: 5715579825
- E-Mail Address
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Brian.K.Ellison@nga.mil
(Brian.K.Ellison@nga.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- 1. Pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-1, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a sole source contract to Ball Aerospace Technologies Corporation for the Accelerated Cloud Transition (ACT), which will include the acquisition of data tagging, validation, submission, storage, and protection of data in the IC ITE Cloud. The period of performance is one year. 2. The ACT effort will require the contractor to enhance existing data tagging capabilities on Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) and Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) GovCloud. ACT will extend the Cloud Transformation Storage and Submission Services (CTS3) capability by completing the design and development and delivering and sustaining a fully functional and operational capability to connect to additional NGA Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) data sources, properly mark the data originating from that source utilizing a community standard, and then "post" or send that object to a community cloud for further processing to make the data discoverable. The work will include completion and enhancement of associated interdependent services including Identity Authentication and Authorization (IAA) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) services, development and operationalization of Enterprise Data Services to support analytics, and development of cloud data management services. NGA requires that this support be commenced immediately. 3. ACT is a continuation of efforts that originated from the Enterprise Search and Integration Services (ES&IS) program. ES&IS is a multi-agency program to promote information sharing across the Intelligence Community. In support of ES&IS, NGA established a pilot program to develop CTS3 capabilities. Task Order HM1572-10-D-0011/0002 was competitively awarded to Ball Aerospace for the development and implementation of data conditioning services and a community search and discovery capability. CTS3 capabilities developed under this task order were demonstrated at the ODNI MUG Demonstration Initiative II on 20 November 2015. Following these demonstrations, several IC agencies have decided to utilize CTS3 capabilities, with enhancements, for near-term mission activities. 4. ACT is a continuation of work that was performed by Ball Aerospace under Task Order HM1572-10-D-0011/0002. As such, Ball has the highly specialized knowledge, skill, experience and personnel required to perform this ACT effort within the very short timeline required. To date, Ball Aerospace is the only NGA contractor that has successfully ingested NGA GEOINT data into the IC GovCloud Production architecture to enable data discovery and advanced analytical use. Others have migrated stove-piped applications, but have not met the goal of making data available for search, discovery, and analysis outside the bounds of their individual applications. There is no single company or a group of companies at this time, other than Ball Aerospace, that possess the following data tagging capabilities and in-depth end-to-end data tagging process knowledge to meet current Government requirements for CTS3 in the time frame required by NGA's IC partners: • Translating NGA data into multiple formats accepted by IC GovCloud for both discovery and advanced analytics • Knowledge of unique security-related releasability rules for each data type and the Community Policy Administration Point, Policy Decision Point and the CTS3 Policy Enforcement Point services. • Familiarity with the current CTS3 IC Cloud publishing Service 5. While other sources may be capable of developing or assuming these capabilities in the future, Ball Aerospace is the only available source capable of providing CTS3 Services to meet this near-term requirement. Under this effort, Ball will be required to meet its mission partner timelines starting 4 March 2016 and completing all efforts no later than 12 months. 6. Acquisition planning is underway for a follow-on competitive source selection for GSR that will provide for future sustainment of the data tagging capabilities for NGA data targeted for migration to the cloud. The GSR Request For Proposals (RFP) is planned for release in March 2016. 7. This notice of intent is being published in accordance with FAR 5.2 requiring the dissemination of information on proposed contract actions. This is a notice of intent to award a sole source contract. The statutory authority for this sole source procurement is 10 U.S.C 2304(c)(1), as implemented by FAR 6.302-1(a). There is a reasonable basis to conclude that the supplies or services are available from only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. 8. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to response to the requirement. All responsible sources may submit a capability statement, proposal, or quotation which shall be considered by the agency. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government. 9. The point of contact for this action is Brian Ellison, brian.k.ellison@nga.mil.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Boulder, CO, United States
- Record
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