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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 3,1999 PSA#2425National Imagery and Mapping Agency, Attn: PCU, M/S: D-88, 4600
Sangamore Road, Besthesda, MD 20816-5003 A -- INTEGRATION & DEMONSTRATION OF COTS ELT SOFTWARE IN SUPPORT OF
NIMA MINT PROGRAM SOL NMA201-99-R-0004R1 DUE 091099 POC Steven J.
Johnson, Phone: 301-227-7817 In order to revise the
synopsis/solicitation under NMA201-99-R-0004, it is replaced in its
entirety as follows: This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for
commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Subpart
12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this
notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals
are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.
Requirement: What follows is a statement of work. The contractor's
proposed contract type will determine the CLIN structure of the
resultant contract vehicle. Since this is a commercial procurement, the
proposed contract type must be firm-fixed price. BACKGROUND: The
Multi-source INtelligence Toolkit (MINT) will be a collection of
Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) applications and unique Government Off
The Shelf (GOTS) tools and services that provides value-added support
to the exploitation community. MINT goals include the following: (1)
Develop a software environment to provideintegrated COTS & GOTS
geospatial and image analysis tools to support multi-source
exploitation; (2) Conform to the United States Imagery and Geospatial
Information Systems (USIGS) Architecture and the Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Information Infrastructure Common
Operating Environment (DII COE); (3) Promote participation from
multiple COTS vendors; and (4) Transition existing GOTS-based
functionality to the MINT environment. The Geospatial and Imagery
Exploitation Specification (GIXS) is the agreed upon framework for all
MINT development activities. Sun's Java Advanced Imaging (JAI)
specification has been selected as the basis for the GIXS framework.
Additionally, the GIXS will also contain the Interface Definition
Language (IDL) for the various services being developed as part of
MINT. The migration to COTS-based tools meets NIMA's strategic goal of
fostering increased use of COTS products across the Imagery and
Geospatial Community (IGC). The purpose of the following requirement is
to provide a COTS-based robust tools set for all NIMA customers through
partnership with Electronic Light Table (ELT) vendors. This effort will
facilitate the incorporation of MINT services into existing COTS ELT
products as well as provide a mechanism for the evaluation and analysis
of MINT services and frameworks. BASELINE MINT1.0 SERVICE DESCRIPTION:
The following are descriptions of the services scheduled for the
MINT1.0 delivery: (1) Import Service (available now) -- Import IDL will
be presented for inclusion into GIXS/Geospatial and Imagery Access
Specification (GIAS) as appropriate. The imports will create standard
file formats (DIWS 6.2 8mm, EOSAT 8mm, EOSAT CDROM, LandSat 8mm, NITF
2.0 LCM 8mm, LandSat 2150, PIDIDOP/SAP 8mm, TFRD 1.3 RLM 2150, TFRD 1.3
DE/RE 2150, TFRD 2.3 RE/DE 2150, TFRD 4.3 LCM 8mm, TFRD 4.3 LCM 2150,
SPOT 8mm, SPOT CDROM, Eikonix Film, Frame Grabber MPEG, and Vexcel
Film) to allow for ingest into a Library, an ELT, or file management
abilities within the Site Data Manager Service; (2) Conversion Service
(available now) -- The conversion IDL will utilize and enhance the
GIXS/GIAS data structures. The Image Writing interfaces will be
presented to the USIGS Interoperability Profile (UIP) working group for
inclusion into GIXS/GIAS as appropriate. The File Conversion service
will provide integrators with a service-level interface for
implementing requirements previously satisfied by MATRIX file
conversion functionality. File formats: CVL, ERDAS 7.5, ERDAS 8.x,
JPEG, NITF 1.1, NITF 2.0, SunRaster, TFRD 1.29, TFRD 2.3, TFRD 4.3,
TIFF 6.0, and VITEC; (3) Image Encoder Service (available now) -- Used
to write out any image format and is a part of the total conversion
service. File formats: JPEG, NITF 2.0, SunRaster, TFRD 1.29, TFRD 2.3,
TFRD 4.3, TIFF 6.0, and VITEC; (4) Site Data Manager Service
(available now) -- Provides the ability to store references to images
on disk and tape allowing users to query information on those images
and plot results to standard mapping packages.It will use a standard
GIAS interface; (5) Image (Tiling) Services (Rendered Image / Image
Access Service) (available now) -- The Image Services will perform
Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC) required imaging operations.
IEC requirements include the NITF 2.0 and TFRD formats (1.3, 2.3, and
4.3). Additionally, some simple image processing operations have been
added including image re-map and scaling for anamorphic correction; (6)
Reduced Resolution Data Set (RRDS) Generation Service (available now)
-- Will provide ELT vendors and other non-ELT integrators with a
service-level interface for implementing requirements previously
satisfied by MATRIX RRDS functionality based on existing libraries and
utilities; (7) Geomensuration Service (available now) -- Provides
image-to-ground and ground-to-image transformations with uncertainty,
migrates Ruler & Front-end Processing Element (FPE) functionality into
distributed computing environment; (8) Registration/Combiner Services
(available May 2000)—Provides image registration and combining
services to allow image overlay, change detection, and mosaic creation;
and (9) Special Services for Classified Support (available May 2000) --
Provides classified functionality. It is the Government's intent to
incorporate the requirements for MINT1.0 services #8 and #9 via an
engineering change at a later date. MINT1.0 services will be supported
on the Sun SPARC Solaris 2.6 platform. A second platform is possible
to be added via an engineering change incorporated at a later date.
CONTRACTOR TASKS: For all tasks listed herein the contractor shall
coordinate schedules with the government. The contractor shall apply
the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model
(CMM) for software development to the software development tasks listed
herein. Responsibilities for the contractor shall consist, at a
minimum, of the tasks described below. 1.0 MINT Framework and
Requirement Analysis/Evaluation. 1.1 The contractor shall analyze MINT
Program requirements (see the Baseline MINT1.0 Service Description),
including software and hardware architecture requirements, functional
requirements, and performance requirements, in order to determine the
ability of its COTS ELT to meet these requirements. The Contractor's
analysis of requirements shall include, at a minimum, a determination
of: (1) Which requirements are satisfied by its existing COTS ELT; (2)
Which requirements may be addressed by potential future improvements
to its COTS ELT; (3) Which requirements will need future applications
development by the contractor; and (4) Which requirements the
contractor cannot support within its COTS ELT. 1.2 The contractor shall
provide evaluations of the evolving GIXS framework and the JAI
specification and GOTS functionality. At a minimum, the evaluations
shall include the following subtasks: 1.2.1 Provide support for short
and long term correlation of the framework/specification capabilities
to USIGS requirements; 1.2.2 Identify the shortfalls and propose
solutions to those shortfalls; 1.2.3 Identify potential future
improvements to the framework and specification; and 1.2.4 Identify
strategies for the migration of existing GOTS functionality to the MINT
environment. 2.0 Integration and Prototyping Activities. In cooperation
with MINT service providers, the contractor shall integrate MINT
services and provide an integrated capability via its COTS ELT. At a
minimum, the contractor shall integrate the MINT1.0 delivered services
as described under the Baseline MINT1.0 Service Description, as well
as any upgrades or interface changes thereto, into its COTS ELT. The
contractor shall provide plans for integration of services, milestone
schedules and delivery schedules. The integration tasks are as follows:
2.1 Technical Analysis. The contractor shall analyze the technical
issues associated with the integration of MINT services into its COTS
ELT. The contractor shall investigate the integration of MINT services
using the following technologies: Common Object Request Broker
Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM),
(direct) Application Programming Interface (API), and Java Remote
Method Invocation (Java RMI/Jini). The contractor shall provide plans
for integration of services as part of the technical analysis. 2.1.1
Based on the technical analysis, the contractor shall develop a
milestone schedule for the integration, test and prototyping activity
of its COTS ELT with integrated MINT services. The milestone schedule
must be approved by the government. 2.2 Integration and Testing (I&T).
The contractor shall conduct the following I&T activities: 2.2.1 The
contractor shall conduct I&T activities for MINT integrated services
based on test plans approved by the government. 2.2.2 The contractor
shall support installation and integration activities at all
demonstration sites. 2.2.3 The contractor shall support NIMA and NIMA
customer evaluations and environment testing. 2.3 Prototype Delivery.
The contractor shall design four commercial prototype versions of its
COTS ELT, each demonstrating the integration of MINT services using the
four different technologies cited above. The contractor shall have
these prototypes available for prototype demonstrations no later than
10 months after award of contract. 2.4 Prototype Demonstration
Activities. Based on the Government schedule but within two months of
prototype availability, the contractor shall conduct prototype
demonstrations of its COTS ELT containing the integrated MINT services.
Up to six demonstrations shall be conducted at the following locations:
the contractor's facility (1), the NIMA Integrated Test Environment
(NITE)in northern Virginia (3) and the following NIMA customer site:
Hickam AFB, Honolulu, HA (2). All demonstrations will be up to three
days in duration. The demonstration duration times include the time
necessary for NIMA staff to familiarize themselves with the
demonstrations. The demonstrations shall be conducted to acquaint users
with all aspects of the vendor's COTS ELT functionality. 3.0 Program
Management. The contractor shall provide the program management effort
necessary to perform the work required for each task defined in the
SOW. To accomplish this task, the contractor shall: 3.1 Employ all
project management elements including client communications and
interface, program cost and schedule control, subcontractor management,
and contract management to ensure that NIMA's objectives are met in
relation to the tasks in this SOW. 3.2 Provide project status reporting
including delivering monthly status reports with progress on tasks and
technical issues. 3.3 Provide Line Of Code (LOC) counts and Line of
Code costs ($/LOC) with break-outs between new, modified and reused
code. LOC counts and $/LOC should also be broken out by type of
activity and associated complexity. 3.4 Participate in community
coordination activities associated with demonstrations, tests, and
implementation activities that involve external interfaces. Participate
in special studies, Technical Exchange Meetings, Working Group
Meetings, or similar functions related to the requirements herein as
directed by the government. At a minimum, the contractor shall
participate in the following activities: (1) USIGS Interoperability
Profile (UIP) development process which includes monthly meetings
(meeting location rotates among the UIP members) and e-mail reviews;
(2) Four NIMA Tools conferences (with one to be held in California and
three in the Washington, DC metro area); (3) Two MINT demonstrations
(with one to be held in California and one in the Washington, DC metro
area); and (4) Two User evaluations of MINT conducted at the NITE. The
estimated duration of each of the activities is one day. 4.0
DELIVERABLES. The contractor shall provide MINT program documentation
in softcopy, unless specified otherwise. Monthly status reports shall
be delivered in hardcopy and softcopy form. The contractor shall supply
the deliverables listed in the following sections. 4.1 Contract
Workplan which is due 30 days after contract award. 4.2 Milestones and
Release Schedules. The contractor shall provide schedule(s) to
include, at a minimum, the following: (1) Milestones depicting
completion dates for the integration, testing and prototyping of its
COTS ELT providing the integrated MINT services; and (2) Release dates
of its COTS ELT version(s) that includes these services. 4.3 Monthly
Status Reports. The contractor shall provide monthly status reports on
the 15th of every month. At a minimum, monthly status reports shall
include the following: (1) Accomplishments during the period; (2) Plans
for the forthcoming period; (3) Issues and concerns; (4) Hours used
against budget; and (5) Incurred/proposed travel. 4.4 Plans, Evaluation
and Analysis Reports. The contractor shall provide report(s) to
include, at a minimum, the following: (1) Descriptions of the
performance, robustness, and ease of integration associated with the
described tasks; (2) Plans for integration of MINT services into its
COTS ELT; (3) Comments and recommendations of appropriate modifications
to the evolutions of the GIXS framework and JAI specification; (4) Test
plans for integrating and testing its COTS ELT with integrated MINT
services; and (5) Reports of I&T results. Other Requirements: 1. The
period of performance for this requirement is approximately 12 months.
By mutual agreement, the period of performance may be extended to
futher explore the contractor's COTS ELT capabilities or perform more
demonstrations of the technology. 2. An Offeror must possess a Top
Secret SI/TK Facility clearance at the time of proposal submission as
well as appropriately qualified personnel with same clearance level to
perform certain tasks herein in order to be considered for award.
Prospective Offerors are requested to provide a proposal for the
requirement defined above. The proposal must contain sufficient
technical and pricing information to permit the government to
adequately evaluate it. Awards may be made to more than one Offeror who
meets the minimum requirements in accordance with the Government's best
value evaluation. This solicitation's provisions and clauses are those
in effect through FAC 97-12 and the current version of the DFARS as of
the date of the synopsis. The following clauses apply to this
solicitation: FAR 52.212-1, FAR 52.212-2 (evaluation is based on best
value of the overall requirement. Best value will include an evaluation
of technical and price factors. Technical subfactors that may be
considered in making a best value determination include the following:
(i) degree to which stated requirements are met, (ii) special features
of the supply/services that are required in effective program
performance capabilities that are not provided by comparable
supply/service, (iii) past performance, and (iv) environmental and
energy efficiency considerations.). Price subfactors that may be
considered in making a best value determination include the following:
(i) proposal prices, and (ii) any cost sharing or cost assumption
terms. FAR 52.212-3 and DFARS 252.212-7000 (both to be provided with
proposal). FAR 52.212-4, FAR 52.212-5 and DFARS 252.212-7001
(appropriate clauses will be defined at time of award, IAW w/ the FAR
and DFARS) and DFARS 252.204-7000 is also applicable. These clauses are
not applicable if items are ordered via GSA/Agency Schedule/Contract
Vehicle (except DFARS 252.204-7000). In this case, the
Schedule/Contract Vehicle terms and conditions shall apply. An Offeror
will be ineligible for award if it is not registered in the CCR. All
information technology must be Year 2000 Compliant IAW the definition
under FAR 39.002. Proposals shall be sent to Steve Johnson via fax to
301-227-5573, via e-mail to johnsonsj@nima.mil or to the address
provided herein. In order of preference, questions may be e-mailed,
faxed, mailed or phoned. Proposals must be provided no later than 10
September 1999, 1400HRS EST. Posted 09/01/99 (I-SN375337). (0244) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0011 19990903\A-0011.SOL)
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