On January 30, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) posted a Draft
Request for Proposal (DRFP) for the Geospatial-Intelligence (GEOINT) Data
Transformation Service (GDTS) follow-on contract (GDTS III). Responses to the
DRFP are due by 11:00 a.m. Eastern on February 18.
The
DRFP is issued in accordance with FAR 52.215-3, Request for Information or
Solicitation for Planning Purposes (Oct 1997), with the purpose of assisting
the Government in developing the highest quality solicitation and acquisition
possible that will meet the mission needs of the agency. Accordingly, industry
is requested to provide its response to the DRFP.
The
objective of GDTS III is to validate, convert, and remediate ingested
file-based data sources, regardless of specification, to allow for search and
discoverability when data is stored in National System for
Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) libraries and other locations. In addition, the
GDTS Full Motion Video (FMV) capabilities allow FMV data to be remediated where
applicable and disseminated in near real time at multiple security levels. GDTS
clips FMV into variable length segments and disseminates to NSG libraries for
storage and access. GDTS Moving Target Indicator (MTI) capabilities provide MTI
data remediation and near real time dissemination at multiple security levels.
Responses
to this DRFP must be submitted on or before February 18, 2020 at 1100
Eastern Time to be considered by the Government.
The
Government may not respond to questions; however, all questions, comments,
and/or responses received prior to the due date and time will be considered
and, as appropriate, may be incorporated into a future solicitation.
The full DRFP and bidder’s library documentation is posted on the Classified Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center (IC ARC) website. A TS/SCI clearance is required in order to view the full DRFP. If you do not already have an ARC account, please visit the unclassified ARC for registration at https://acq.westfields.net and click on the “Register” link at the top right of the page to create your accounts. Be sure to include your classified email address as you will not be able to access your classified account without it. Once you have finished the registration process on the unclassified system and validated your account by clicking the link you were sent via unclassified email, you may need to wait up to two (2) business days for your classified ARC account to be created. Next, visit the classified ARC at https://acq.nro.ic.gov/ from a TS network such as NMIS, NSANet, CWE, AWAN, CWAN, JWICS, etc. using the same unclassified email and password you used on the unclassified system. This will bring you to a page where you can click a button to send yourself a verification email to the classified email account you listed when creating your unclassified account.
Full information is available here.
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