DISA releases final RFP for ENCORE III

On March 2, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) posted the final request for proposal (RFP) for Encore III. Proposals are due April 4, 2016 at 12:00pm Central.

This is the final RFP for ENCORE III. ENCORE III is a follow-on contract to ENCORE II, and like its predecessor, ENCORE III will be a Multiple Award Contract (MAC).  Individual Task Orders shall be used to perform the 19 performance areas which form the basis for providing information technology (IT) solutions for the development, installation, fielding, training, operation and life-cycle management of components and systems in the operational environments of Combatant Commands and their subordinate components, the military services, Defense agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and other Federal agencies.

Mission Context: ENCORE III is a follow-on contract to ENCORE II, and like its predecessor, ENCORE III will be a Multiple Award Contract (MAC). Individual Task Orders shall be used to perform the 19 performance areas which form the basis for providing information technology (IT) solutions for the development, installation, fielding, training, operation and life-cycle management of components and systems in the operational environments of Combatant Commands and their subordinate components, the military services, Defense agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and other Federal agencies.

Background: DISA is an integral component in the development of the Joint Information Environment (JIE), a network-centric environment required to achieve information superiority. The JIE is the globally-interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel to manage and provide information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and supporting personnel. It will enhance combat effectiveness through greatly increased battlespace awareness, improved ability to employ weapons beyond line-of-sight, employment of massed effects instead of massed forces, and reduced decision cycles. It will also contribute to the success of non-combat military operations. Unique user data, information, and user applications are not considered part of the JIE, but can also be accommodated under the contract (i.e., support for other Federal agencies). The emerging revolution in Department of Defense (DoD) business affairs requires a distributed approach to conducting day-to-day operations that the contract can provide. DISA is helping to meet these challenges by:

* Identifying and maintaining the legacy baseline of requirements, processes, applications, and automated systems

* Collecting, validating and integrating requirements

* Managing data standardization

* Performing cross-functional analysis for data sharing through corporate/shared data structures

* Developing integration standards, processes, and methodologies

* Performing cross-functional analysis for applications interfaces, interoperability and integration; developing migration/integration strategies and plans; providing functional and technical integration solutions; developing common shared infrastructure services; prototyping functional applications and required infrastructure support to validate requirements and solutions

* Managing migration and integration through the use of program metrics tools and capabilities

Full information is available here.

Source: FedBizOpps