SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Big Data Platform Orchestration Tool
- Notice Date
- 1/10/2022 7:30:31 AM
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- W4MM USA JOINT MUNITIONS CMD ROCK ISLAND IL 61299-5000 USA
- ZIP Code
- 61299-5000
- Solicitation Number
- W52P1J-22-R-GNX3
- Response Due
- 2/10/2022 10:00:00 AM
- Point of Contact
- Christine Szalo, Phone: 563-320-9290, Carrie Lansing, Phone: 563-209-8344
- E-Mail Address
-
christine.a.szalo.civ@army.mil, carrie.b.lansing.civ@army.mil
(christine.a.szalo.civ@army.mil, carrie.b.lansing.civ@army.mil)
- Description
- The U.S. Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI), Rock Island, IL on behalf of the Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), Ft. Belvoir, VA, is conducting market research to identify contractors with existing capabilities, experience, and expertise to develop an Army Big Data Platform (BDP) orchestration tool that automatically provisions, installs, and configures a BDP cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud. Interested contractors shall demonstrate that they currently possess all necessary experience and capability, along with the personnel to perform these services.� The Army BDP Orchestrator capability will consist of the following areas: BDP orchestration tool automatically provisions, installs, and configures a BDP cluster on AWS GovCloud. Creating (if required) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for un-configured puppet master and node images,� provisioning and configuring the puppet master, provisioning and bootstrapping the nodes, configuring, initializing and validating the BDP components. The system shall provide orchestration/automation systems and tools which works for NIPRNet and SIPRNet. The solution shall direct specific computers or virtual machines (VMs), networks, applications, and storage functions from end to end provisioning activities. The solution shall provide auto-scaling functions to maintain a range of numbers of computers or VMs in services on the templates. The solution shall have a web-based, remote management console and role-based control access. The solution must be integrated with a web-based Enterprise Directory. The system shall support end-to-end provisioning capabilities The solution shall process infrastructure changes, requests to configuration management databases, and changes to subordinate orchestrators across multiple domains. The solution shall support a specific range of numbers of computers or VMs, networks, applications, and data flows and storage. The system shall support automated provisioning of workflows The solution shall have a workflow design and customization capability. The solution shall have the ability to override requests and/or stop a workflow as required by mission need. The solution shall provide workflow features to make discovery processes more efficient. The solution shall provide activity logs, including successful and failure activities. The solution shall provide acceptable performance, that it doesn�t impact or degrade existing system performance. The solution shall work to provide partial system orchestration/automation functions without impacting the existing, active system�s services and performance. The system shall support resource provisioning, configuration, monitoring, scaling and removal. The system shall be deployed in a high availability architecture. The solution shall enable manual and automatic modifications of resources in order to maintain required thresholds. The solution shall provide real-time and historical visibility into configuration and change attributes. The system shall support CAC Authentication and SIPR Token Authentication. The system shall support Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The system shall support Northbound/Southbound communication via REST API. The system shall provide metrics on the health and availability of all Clouds infrastructures, applications, OS, storage, etc. The applicants must have at least 2 years of experiences in developing BDP applications. The applicants must provide demonstration of a working BDP or similar technology implementation. Applicants meeting the preliminary requirements must participate in further evaluations. Applicants will provide the user guide and system admin guide to allow other entity to perform operations. Interested sources shall provide responses that contain the following information: Name of company and CAGE code; Point of Contacts name, telephone number and E-mail address: Company address Business size information; Identification of whether you are interested in this opportunity as a prime or a subcontractor; A brief summary of the company�s capabilities (to include descriptions of facilities, equipment, skills and personnel) experience, and expertise, including knowledge of developing BDP applications; Details regarding experience with similar efforts/items; Identification of potential sources for major subcontractors if the source intends to utilize a subcontractor(s); Identification of additional equipment needed, lead time to obtain and install such equipment. Please include any assumptions made, recommendations regarding price range breaks, or any additional information you feel might be useful to the U.S. Government if it chooses to go forward with an RFP.� This market research is for planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a request for proposal or as an obligation on the part of the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government will not reimburse any respondent for any effort or information submitted in response to this sources sought. All interested parties shall provide all information requested in this notification by 12:00 PM Central Time on 10 February 2022 by electronic mail at no cost to the U.S. Government. Submissions shall be directed to ACC-RI, ATTN: Christine Szalo, email Christine.a.szalo.civ@army.mil or Carrie Lansing, email carrie.b.lansing.civ@army.mil. If a formal solicitation is generated at a later date, a solicitation notice will be published. No award will be made as a result of this market research.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: USA
- Country: USA
- Country: USA
- Record
- SN06213813-F 20220112/220110230101 (samdaily.us)
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