On April 30, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency posted a notice
advising industry of a Change in Acquisition Strategy for Information
Technology Enterprise Managed Services (ITEMS).
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) acting Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) approved a modified capabilities-based acquisition strategy for the ITEMS program, which enhances NGA’s ability to meet the building and operational support requirements for NGA’s new Next NGA West (N2W) facility in St. Louis, Missouri (MO).
The purpose of this
announcement is to communicate NGA’s new strategy, and our rationale for this
change. The design-build contract for N2W facility was awarded on 19 March
2019. The critical design review is schedule for mid-2021, with Information
Technology (IT) procurement following shortly thereafter and IT installation,
deployment and sustainment beginning in August 2022. Most of the current ITEMS
contracts will be expiring right when they are most needed to support the N2W
facility.
NGA intends to issue
three competitive solicitations over the next two years to meet our IT
requirements. The first solicitation will combine transport and cybersecurity
requirements under a new competitive acquisition called Transport and Cyber
Security (TCS), in lieu of ITEMS Transport II. This combination leverages the
industry trend of embedding cybersecurity technology in network hardware
systems such as intrusion detection, perimeter defense, etc. Our goal is to
release a new Request for Proposal (RFP) in June 2019, or soon thereafter, to
enable contract award by March 2020.
NGA intends to
combine User Facing Services (UFS) and Data Center Services (DCS) requirements
into one solicitation called User Facing and Data Center Services (UDS).
Combining the back-end data center services with desktop services will increase
operational efficiencies and better support to our end users. NGA also intends
to issue a solicitation for Enterprise Management Services (EMS) that is
expected to provide first-call helpdesk customer support, monitoring services,
and control through the enterprise service center. These solicitations will be
subject to the results of market research for each requirement.
The modified acquisition strategy is structured to create efficiencies in the acquisition of IT services for services for better customer support to, minimize Government integration, minimize functional dependencies to gain performance efficiencies, and to streamline problem resolution for superior customer support. Most importantly, and provide consistent and stable support to the N2W program through procurement, installation, deployment, and sustainment.
Full information is available here.
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