58 -- JOINT NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Notice Date

September 1, 2000

Contracting Office

U.S. Army CECOM, CECOM Acquisition Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ 07703-5008

ZIP Code

07703-5008

Solicitation Number

DAAB07-00-R-F001

Point of Contact

Tom Taylor, Contract Specialist, (703) 427-1576/Ken Tedeschi, Contracting Officer, (732) 532-4846

E-Mail Address

Click here to contact the contract specialist via (thomas.taylor@mail1.monmouth.army.mil)

Description

The U.S. Army CECOM Acquisition Center intends to solicit competitive proposals for award of two contracts to one contractor, on the basis of best overall value, for development, testing, production, fielding, and support of Joint Network Management Systems (JNMS's). The JNMS is to be a joint services communications planning and management system for Commanders in Chief and Commanders of Joint Task Forces. The system is to provide communications planners the capability to conduct high level planning, detailed planning and engineering, monitoring, control and reconfiguration, spectrum planning and management, and security management for communications systems and networks that support joint operations. Under the base period of the first contract, the contractor is to develop the architecture for the JNMS; develop the initial software baseline, using commercial off the shelf and government off the shelf software to the maximum extent practicable; acquire hardware to host the software for testing; conduct an architecture demonstration of the JNMS; conduct functional qualification testing (FQT) and security certification testing of the JNMS; provide a system support package for government operational testing of the JNMS; develop training materials; and prepare various technical data items, all on a cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) basis. The first contract will have CPFF options which may be exercised during the base period, for testing of hardware during FQT (which the government may exercise if it decides to procure hardware under the contract, rather than use existing government hardware to host the JNMS software), computer based training materials, technical manuals, and various other logistics technical data items. The first contract will also have CPFF options in each of six one year option periods, for continuing incremental development and testing of the JNMS software baseline, update of training materials and other technical data items affected by update of the software baseline, and transitioning of post deployment software support for the JNMS to the government or another contractor. The first contract will have firm-fixed-price (FFP) ranged quantity unit price options for JNMS software suites and hardware suites and FFP options for initial spares packages, during the six option years. The second contract will be a requirements contract under which the government may issue task orders, on a time-and-materials basis, for technical support services, including support for government conducted testing, conduct of training courses, fielding support, post deployment software support, repair and replacement of JNMS hardware, technical support for fielded systems, and engineering services. The government will also be able to issue FFP delivery orders under the second contract for replenishment spare parts for JNMS hardware. The second contract will have a one year base ordering period, which may be extended by one year, up to six times. Both contracts will be used to satisfy the requirements of all of the military services, not just those of the Army. An Operational Requirements Document, draft Technical Requirements Document, and draft Statement of Work for the JNMS are currently available for download by all interested parties from the Army's Single Face to Industry Interactive Business Opportunities Page Web site (http://abop.monmouth.army.mil), under CECOM Solicitation No. DAAB07-00-R-F001. Draft solicitation sections will be posted as they become available. It is anticipated that the final solicitation will be posted on or about 25 September 2000. Offerors will be required to submit their proposals electronically, via the Web site. In order to do this, they must register and obtain a password, through the Web site. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the CECOM Acquisition Center.

Web Link

Click here to download pre-solicitation documents. (http://abop.monmouth.army.mil)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20000906/58SOL009.HTM (W-245 SN492834)