Month: March 2024

This is a long lead opportunity report for a potential third iteration for these services.  The most recent Federal Business Opportunity (W91249-23-R-0002) under NAICS: 541519 (Other Computer Related Services) is out of the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Army (Army), Army Contracting Command (ACC), Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC), Fort Eustis.  The last procurement was competed as a 8(a) set-aside. This procurement concluded with an award to Open San Consulting, LLC in the 2023 Government Fiscal Year.  This was a transition from the prior incumbent Kupono Government Services, LLC that had been awarded the contract in 2020. 

Issued Office Location: MICC – Fort Eustis,  706 Washington Blvd., Fort Eustis, VA 23604

The most recent solicitation listed the period of performance shall be for one (1) month phase-in period with one (1) Base Year of eleven (11) months and four (4) 12-month option years.

Most Recent Solicitation W91249-23-R-0002  (sam.gov):

Last Procurement Dates:

• • Posted: October 03, 2022
  • Last Amendment Posted Date (Amendment 6): May 25, 2023
  • Proposals Extended by Amendment 6 to be due: July 25, 2023
  • Contract Awarded (Per FPDS Entry): September 23, 2023

The following dates are only projections based on past activity and my knowledge of researching similar types of opportunities.  Due to the length of time prior to the projected recompete, these are just best estimates only.  As the time gets closer to the actual recompete the information will transfer to being based on actual released information.  Projecting this far ahead is meant to provide what may be coming in order to be prepared for when any actual information becomes available.

Projected Upcoming Recompete Dates:

• • Projected RFP Release: 05/01/2028
  • Projected Start date of recompete contract: 03/02/2029

Point of Contact:

• • Primary: Victoria Terrill, victoria.c.terrill.cov@army.mil, 757-501-7305
  • Secondary: Danielle Beavers-Rose, Danielle.veavers-rose.cov@army.mil, 757-501-8157

Performance Work Statement Description:

The contractor shall provide all personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials, supervision, and other items and non-personal services necessary to provide Information Technology (IT) support services to the Cyber Center of Excellence (CCoE) as defined in this Performance Work Statement except for those items specified as government property and services. The contractor shall perform to the standards in this contract.

Background: The CCoE is the U.S. Army’s force modernization proponent for Cyberspace Operations, Signal/Communications Networks and Information Services, and Electronic Warfare (EW), and is responsible for developing related doctrine, organizational, training, materiel, leadership/education, personnel, and facility solutions. A major aspect of the CCoE’s mission is the training, education, and development of world-class, highly skilled Signal, Cyber, and EW professionals supporting operations at the strategic, operational, and tactical level. Today’s broad and rapidly changing global operational environment means the Department of Defence (DoD) and the nation are required to function within an increasingly competitive, congested, and contested cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum. Ultimately, the CCoE must enable Commanders and leaders to seize, retain, and exploit freedom of action in both the land and cyberspace domains, while simultaneously denying and degrading the adversary use of the same. The CCoE trains Signal and Cyber Advanced Individual Training (AIT), functional training, and professional military education (PME) at Fort Gordon’s CCoE. The CCoE consists of the U.S. Army Signal School, U.S. Army Cyber School, and the Cyber Noncommissioned Officers Academy (CNOCA). Specifically, the CCoE is responsible for the Signal and Cyber Officer’s Basic Courses (BOLC), Signal Captain’s Career Courses (SCCC), Warrant Officer’s Basic/Advance Courses (WOBC/WOAC), CNCOA courses, Professional Development (PD) and functional training for military and civilians.

In support of the CCoE’s training efforts the G6 provides IT services support to all the CCoE’s training and administrative platforms inclusive of but not limited to Cyber Security, Risk Management Framework (RMF), System Administration, Server Administration, System Engineering, Virtualization, Web Development, Automation, Programming/coding support, continuity of operations, and Service Desk functions. These services support approximately 24,000+ end points consisting of physical and virtual servers, access points, wireless controllers, switches, and routers that provide classroom as a service using technologies such as VDI-MILS and Virtualization Technologies. This is provided on but not limited to 5 separate networks at this time UNCLASS, Classified, TS Classified, Commercial and a separate Audio-Visual Network as well as support requirements to various administrative networks i.e. NIPRNET and SIPRNET. The CCoE G6 is operationally organized into three (3) sections. This includes the Business Operations section which includes Program Management, IT Project Support, System Engineering, IT Procurement Support, Management of the Systems Operations Center, Daily Operations, TASKORD management, Business Operations, and Process improvement. The Enterprise Service desk which supports the Visual Information System (Video Teleconference and Unified Communications), a Service desk, Configuration Management, Logistics Support Element, Web Development Team, Application Support, SharePoint Support, Server Administration, End User Support, Army Training and Certification Tracking System (ATCTS) Management, Account Management, System Engineering, VMware, Linux, and Other Virtualization technologies. And finally, the Cyber Security section which supports, Risk Management Framework (RMF) Support: Including Continuous Monitoring (Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS)/Scanning, Configuration Management), Incident Response, Army Portfolio Management Solution (APMS) support, Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) Support, and Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) support. 1.3 Objectives: The Single Award contract will acquire IT services in support of the CCoE’s mission as described in Section 1.1 Background. The objectives are to provide IT support services in the areas described in Section 5 in support of CCoE.

 Scope: This acquisition equips the CCoE with IT services support under one (1) contract vehicle and also provides the CCoE a way to achieve economies of scale via consolidating all IT Services into a single Contract vehicle for IT services across all CCoE organizations. Technical Exhibit 3 IT Services Support Projected Workload Data provides FY20 historical data for informational purposes only for the number of IT services Contractor personnel by labor category type. However, data in Technical Exhibit 3 may not be all inclusive and is subject to change/growth as requirements change.