SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- Request for Information (RFI), DISA IE2 SATCOM Ordering, Management & Situational Awareness Tools (SOMSAT) System - SOMSAT_Phase1_RFI
- Notice Date
- 8/9/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Defense Information Systems Agency, Procurement Directorate, DITCO-Scott, 2300 East Dr., Building 3600, Scott AFB, Illinois, 62225-5406, United States
- ZIP Code
- 62225-5406
- Solicitation Number
- SOMSAT_Phase1_RFI
- Archive Date
- 9/15/2018
- Point of Contact
- Cody T. Badgett, Phone: 618-229-9510
- E-Mail Address
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cody.t.badgett.civ@mail.mil
(cody.t.badgett.civ@mail.mil)
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- Description
- Figure 1 SOMSAT Phase 1 SOMSAT_Phase1_RFI REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Infrastructure Directorate (IE) SATCOM (Satellite Communications) Division (IE2) is seeking information from industry to assist with the development and planning of a potential new requirement. THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) NOTICE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP). NO SOLICITATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. 1. Overview/Purpose/ Description of Procurement DISA IE2 organization is in the process of creating a SATCOM Ordering, Management & Situational Awareness Tools (SOMSAT) system to provide comprehensive, timely, and secure management of SATCOM encompassing ordering, fulfilment, resource management, configuration management, account management, security management, fault management, and situational awareness. Currently these management functions are performed with disjoint tools and manual processes. DISA desires to move to a unified, state of the art management environment that increases efficiencies, timeliness and capabilities. 2. Scope of Effort DISA is defining the scope of SOMSAT and is seeking industry input to assist with identifying relevant and realistic requirements for SOMSAT. SOMSAT will have a phased implementation. The first phase will address a near-term subset of requirements within the broader SOMSAT scope. SOMSAT Phase 1 is intended to provide initial capabilities that will ultimately be incorporated into a larger, comprehensive SATCOM support capability (Phase 2 and beyond). The focus for Phase 1 is on an initial deployment to address identified gaps and issues (discussed below) in the ordering processes as well as implementing an initial security and situational awareness framework that can serve as the basis for these functions going forward. The current SATCOM provisioning process is manpower intensive and lacks automation. In most cases, SATCOM provisioning cannot keep pace with adaptive planning and execution. SATCOM provisioning does not typically allow SLA-based provisioning, relying instead on time and frequency allocations rather than end-to-end service assurances. Current situational awareness systems do not provide automated reporting of usage and status information regarding SATCOM resources. Situational awareness components are not federated to provide a SATCOM Common Operating Picture (COP). These systems do not interact with other joint planning systems to quickly provide awareness of SATCOM critical impacts on operations and vice versa. Due to these limitations, operational requirements for end-to-end planning and dynamic reconfiguration of SATCOM networks cannot be met. 3. Technical Characteristics Overall SOMSAT (end-state) capabilities need to provide a framework to automate, standardize, record, and capture all facets of SATCOM mission space. SOMSAT should support operational objectives to include: • Near Real-time Ordering and Provisioning • Visibility and coordination of all SATCOM operations and assets globally • Management and visibility of end-to-end service delivery • Situational understanding of operational events, effects, and dependencies (SATCOM Management Common Operational Environment (COE) Comprehensive Situational Awareness/Common Operating Picture) • Predictive (what-if) analysis of network capacity and requirements • Mobility and Continuous Communications Connectivity (minimum service interruption) • Automated Resource Allocation (including terminal register/commissioning) • Remote Terminal Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) mitigation • Continuity of Operations (CoOP) • Network Layer Interface for OSS/BSS information exchange between element networks. While keeping the SOMSAT (end-state) in mind, the interim and an evolutionary SOMSAT Phase 1 should provide Ordering/Provisioning Planning and derivative Situational Awareness (SA) that is agnostic to frequency band or platform type. SOMSAT should include capabilities for logically separable components for MILSATCOM (Phase 1A) and COMSATCOM (Phase 1B) to reflect the organizational realities of the current Department of Defense SATCOM organizational structure. Comprehensive situational awareness requires data collected from multiple echelons across the DoD including services provided by DISA and the DoD components. Phase 1 activities will be limited to support derivative Situational Awareness (SA); i.e. Situational Awareness that can be derived from Ordering/Provisioning related data accessible to SOMSAT Phase 1. (i.e. data available within the DISA managed systems and processes). The SOMSAT situational awareness will be based upon SOMSAT-managed data stores that will evolve to support the entire SOMSAT mission. As described in the Notional Operational Construct SOMSAT Phase 1 figure (attached to this RFI as a reference), a USER will initiate a SATCOM REQUEST to SOMSAT and expect results including verification and validation of the request or Situational Awareness/COP as requested. SOMSAT Phase 1 should incorporate extensive user support mechanisms (standardized content, selectable options, pre-filled options, online help and explanations, ability to create intermediate, incomplete requests, etc.) to assist the USER with completing SATCOM related requests. SOMSAT Phase 1 is envisioned to have an Analytics capability that will contain a set of automated tools (e.g. SAR Tool or Gateway Tool) that will interact with various elements of existing SATCOM systems and/or existing processes and be able to extract the required information (e.g. SATCOM configuration and resource data) to make an assessment. SOMSAT will need to continually acquire datasets (e.g., resource status, capacity information) to process and analyze as part of the overall capability. The extracted pertinent data will be housed in a repository e.g. a SOMSAT Phase 1 Data Store. It is anticipated that SOMSAT Phase 1 capability will be able to provide backend interfaces to existing tools (for both Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) and COMSATCOM) for data exchange. Some interfaces may be fully automated, semi-automated (i.e. read from data files) or may include Human in the Loop (HITL) processes. For the SOMSAT Phase 1 timeframe, it is expected that the following systems (highlighted with a solid box in the reference figure) will be in place include the Joint SATCOM Management Enterprise (JSME) and SATCOM Data Base (SDB) that contains the User SATCOM request and Approval data It is also expected that there will be dependencies on existing (manual) processes that will need to be followed to gather the required information from other elements of the end-to-end SATCOM systems (highlighted with the dashed box in the reference figure) to be able to fulfil the USER request. The SOMSAT Integrated SATCOM Processes (HITL) will provide this function. It is anticipated that these other systems will be automated as part of the SOMSAT Phase 2 (end-state) evolution capability: Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) Operational Support System (OSS), Integrated network Management System (INMS), Provisioning Ecosystem Modernization and Consolidation (PEMC), Global Integrated Network Management System for SATCOM (GINMS-SAT) provide Terrestrial communications related information, other tools and processes that provide Terminal and Satellite payload related information Additional operational requirements for SOMSAT include: • Ability to deploy separate instantiations of SOMSAT Phase 1A/B in different DoD organizations (e.g. one for MILSATCOM and one for COMSATCOM) • Support for Geostationary, and non-Geostationary communications systems • Support for Multi-Level security domains – various classification levels, multi-national support, CAC, certificates, other authentication based upon DoD standards. Role based access controls to data and various aggregate views, enforce access controls, leverage existing DISA and other resources as applicable for identity, authentication, and authorization • Pervasive access to support world-wide users including access from the DoD Information Network (DoDIN) and the Internet • Modularity-Should be composed in such a way that any given component can be replaced with an equivalent alternative without requiring a redesign or re-engineering of the overall system • Compatibility-Support industry and government standards to include the data ingest portion as well as the output or display portion • Interoperability-Should be able to pull from, accept, and receive a wide variety of data formats, types, communication protocols, and support all major industry standards • Usability - Data Consistency: Should be able to effectively transform a wide range of data types according to consistent defined standards to ensure that data elements such as Bandwidth availability are collected, processed, stored, and available for summary views in a consistent manner • Usability - User Experience Consistency: Should operate in accordance with widely accepted industry standards for user interface and user interaction with applications and system functionality and provide a consistent user experience across the SATCOM user base • Reliability-Should support and enable enterprise class standards for operational reliability • Performance- o Data Ingest: Should operate at speeds dictated by the SATCOM domain data volume o Query Processing: Should provide methods to rapidly access and process large volumes of data in support of user queries o User Interface: Should support the ability for end-user views to display results in sub-second execution times • Scalability o Should be able to scale in terms of hardware capacity, both storage and compute resources, as needed, without imposing outages, downtime, or restructuring of the overall architecture 4. Requested Information Industry is encouraged to provide information on products, tools, services, or other capabilities relevant to the SOMSAT program as described above in order to assist the government in further defining the SOMSAT requirements. Specific areas of interest include: • SATCOM ordering and provisioning systems/products/services/capabilities • SATCOM situational awareness systems/products/services/capabilities • SATCOM monitoring and configuration systems/products/services/capabilities • Multi-level Security system-wide security systems compliant with standard- To Be Determined (TBD) • Emphasis is on the initial phase, but relevant information that can address the overall organizational needs is also helpful. 5. References a. The Joint SATCOM Management Enterprise (JSME) umbrella of tools - inclusive of the Joint Integrated SATCOM Tool (JIST) and the Joint SATCOM Management Planning System (JSMPS). Provides centralized management, planning, synchronization, integration, and coordination of DoD global SATCOM b. The SATCOM Data Base (SDB) is the sole Joint Staff-validated database to approve and track all current and future DoD SATCOM needs. c. Gateway Management System (GMS) is a Management and Control (M&C) System that will securely monitor and/or control local site equipment using two factor authentications. RESPONSE GUIDELINES: Interested parties are requested to respond to this RFI with a white paper. Submissions cannot exceed 10 pages, single spaced, 12-point type with at least one-inch margins on 8 1/2” X 11” page size. The response should not exceed a 5 MB e-mail limit for all items associated with the RFI response. Responses must specifically describe the contractor’s capability to meet the requirements outlined in this RFI, how the contractor might approach the challenges outlined above, cite specific product offerings (as applicable) contractor might provide or suggestions the contractor might have to address these challenges. The objective of this exercise is to define requirements for the SOMSAT system. Respondents are strongly discouraged from providing proprietary information in their responses. Proprietary information will not be considered for inclusion in any requirements resulting from this RFI. Oral communications are not permissible. FedBizOpps will be the sole repository for all information related to this RFI. Companies who wish to respond to this RFI should send responses via email no later than August 31, 2018 to cody.t.badgett.civ@mail.mil. INDUSTRY DISCUSSIONS: DISA representatives may choose to meet with potential offerors and hold one-on-one discussions. Such discussions would only be intended to obtain further clarification of potential capability to meet the requirements, including any development and certification risks. QUESTIONS: Questions regarding this announcement shall be submitted in writing by e-mail to Cody Badgett, cody.t.badgett.civ@mail.mil. Verbal questions will NOT be accepted. Answers to questions will be posted to FBO. The Government does not guarantee that questions received after August 29, 2018 will be answered. The Government will not reimburse companies for any costs associated with the submissions of their responses. DISCLAIMER: This RFI is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals nor will any award be made as a result of this synopsis. All information contained in the RFI is preliminary as well as subject to modification and is in no way binding on the Government. FAR clause 52.215-3, “Request for Information or Solicitation for Planning Purposes”, is incorporated by reference in this RFI. The Government does not intend to pay for information received in response to this RFI. Responders to this invitation are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. This RFI will be the basis for collecting information on capabilities available. This RFI is issued solely for information and planning purposes. Proprietary information and trade secrets, if any, must be clearly marked on all materials. All information received in this RFI that is marked “Proprietary” will be handled accordingly. Please be advised that all submissions become Government property and will not be returned nor will receipt be confirmed. 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.
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