By On March 12, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) issued a request for information (RFI) for Mercury. Responses are due by 12:00 p.m. Eastern on April 2.
This RFI’s purpose is to identify sources that have access to an extensive set of knowledge, skills, experience, and resources to maintain and modernize known systems and the ability to rapidly support unanticipated capabilities. Additionally, NGA would welcome recommendations from industry on acquisition constructs for delivering mission responsive support for unforeseen requirements.
The mission of NGA is to provide timely, relevant, and accurate Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) to policy makers, the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of War (DoW), and other federal agencies and partners in support of national security. In support of this mission, the PEOAA – Analytic Technologies (PAT) office develops and maintains a set of mission critical and mission essential software systems, applications, and databases constituting the analytic services for the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG).
Although future NSG analytic capabilities are extensively planned and prioritized for implementation, past experience and objective risk management forecast that there will be unanticipated changes to mission needs and requirements including adoption of emergent systems and tools. These emergent requirements will require sustainment and modernization efforts to operationalize the system to meet analytic mission needs. Many of these analytic systems do not align specifically to a singular mission in the PAT portfolio and require cross-project support. The ongoing sustainment and modernization of cross-project capabilities throughout the lifecycle of the system would be supported through the Mercury requirements.
The Mercury requirement will be the primary sustainment services provider within PAT, providing services needed for end-to-end operations and lifecycle management of existing and emerging analytic systems that directly or indirectly support the execution of the Analysis mission at NGA, and in support of the Analytic Services Production Environment for the NSG (ASPEN) major system acquisition. The Mercury requirement is a direct follow-on to the Chinook contract with similar scope and requirements.
The Mercury scope of work includes the lifecycle support of the Analytic Technology systems and applications identified below, and any additional systems and applications that may be added to the Mercury requirement as they become operational or require terminal support until system disposition. A key to the success of the Mercury requirement will be the ability to rapidly transition current emerging analytic capabilities onto contract and then provide lifecycle services including sustainment and enhancement activities. Mercury supports a rapid response to the current and future cross-project future requirements, critical system transitions, and emerging development efforts essential to empower warfighters and analysts.
Source: SAM
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