Communications Management & Enterprise Technology Services (CoMETS) Sources Sought

entify other NAICS codes believed to satisfy the requirement needs. This Sources Sought is intended to help the MDA make informed acquisition decisions to: Assess the current marketplace for Small Business capabilities to satisfy the MDA requirements. Obtain recommendations from industry on acquisition strategies and contractual approaches that are most appropriate to satisfy the MDA requirements. Identify and mitigate any potential impediments to a competitive award. Identify potential Government Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) Identify the potential to establish goals for AbilityOne subcontracting opportunities This Sources Sought is part of the overall market research activity to collect, organize, maintain, analyze and present data in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 10. This Sources Sought announcement is being published with the intent to promote small business competition and only small businesses need to respond. The MDA reserves the right to request follow-up information from Sources Sought respondents, as needed, because of the information received from this Sources Sought. Information received from follow-up questions and presentations are considered part of the overall market research activity per FAR Part 15.201. This is a market research announcement for informational planning purposes only and does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the MDA. Information submitted will be considered as an exchange of information and may be used as part of future RFP(s). No RFP/solicitation will be issued at this time. The Government will not pay for the information solicited herein nor for any costs accumulated while responding to this Sources Sought. Sources Sought responses will not be construed as an offer and will not be accepted by the MDA to form a binding contract. A non-response to this Sources Sought does not preclude participation in a future competition, nor shall information provided in response to this sources sought be used to exclude anyone from responding to any future Request for Proposals. Communications with the MDA with regard to this Sources Sought shall only be permitted in writing during the sources sought response period. Program Overview The MDA is the headquarters/acquisition agency tasked to develop and field a Missile Defense System capability for the United States and the Department of Defense (DoD). This includes management of critical assets and a missile force that is geographically separated not only within the National Capital Region (NCR), but also throughout the United States and around the world. This geographic dispersion is one of the greatest challenges facing the agency. The MDA Communications Management & Enterprise Technology Services (CoMETS) contract (formerly Research and Development Enterprise Communication Services (RECS), requirements are for the following: Existing and future MDA Portal Services (U/CMKO SharePoint, Web Application Management, Web-based Development, Process Automation, Privacy Office & Civil Liberties), Data Governance and Analytics Services (Missile Defense System (MDS)) Data Management, Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Services, Business Intelligence), Unified Communications Services (Collaboration service, V&VoIP, Telephony, Audio/Visual, Video Teleconference), and End User Training. The CoMETS Program currently resides in the Von Braun Complex, located on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. CoMETS supports MDA in the following locations: The NCR, which is located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and includes offices in Arlington, Falls Church, Fort Belvoir, and Dahlgren, VA. Schriever SFB, CO Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL, multiple office locations within the Huntsville region Kirtland AFB, NM Fort Greely, AK Vandenberg AFB, CA Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands Hawaii Unified Communication Services (e.g. Video teleconference, specialized video distribution systems, Collaboration Services, V&VoIP), Portal Services (e.g. MS SharePoint), Data Governance and Analytics, and End-user training are critical capabilities for the MDA that supports centralized cost-effective program executive decision analysis, performance assessment, agency collaborative management and rapid unified reporting to Agency stakeholders. These activities and actions relating to MDA Flight Test, Ground Test, and other War Fighter Mission events often require long-distance coordination, collaboration and discussion in real-time. They do not allow for periods of VTC or data sharing systems/applications downtime in excess of a few minutes without impacting cost and mission execution. Industry should take into account support requirements as they relate to high availability for Unified Communications, Portal, and Data Governance and Analytic services at all supported locations when responding to this notice. Unified Communications VTC/AV services operates across all classification levels and is comprised of 580+ conference rooms, 5 auditoriums, and 30+ Strategic Planning and war rooms. Our collaboration environment consists of 30+ virtual & on-premise Cisco Meeting Servers (CMS), Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and IM&P servers. A typical monthly snapshot of UC support is 7,136 conference calls, with 99,984 connections, for a total of 71,005 hours of connectivity. The MDA Data Program Office (DPO) leads all MDA Data Governance efforts in accordance with OSD policy direction from the DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). Accordingly, the DPO represents over 20 MDA Directorates and Program Offices, including data stewards from subordinate organizations managing over 270 authoritative data sources (cataloged by the DPO through the MDA Master Data Catalog). Knowledge and Data Management consists of the support of the agency wide SharePoint environment consisting of 8 SharePoint farms totaling up to 142 virtual servers. The SharePoint IL5 is both on premise and SharePoint Online in DoD365-J. On premise SharePoint will require a migration of the remaining data to SharePoint Online. The Il6 SharePoint is on Subscription Edition in the MDA Azure Cloud. Our SharePoint IL5 instance houses 3.9TB and growing and IL6 SharePoint instance houses 3.0TB+ Each contractor must be able to demonstrate, through its response to this Sources Sought, that it has the capability, staff, and expertise required to assume all contractually required functions to perform the requirements outlined in this announcement. Requirements Unified Communications The Unified Communications (UC) services primary requirement is to provide cybersecurity compliant support services for current, transitioning and future collaboration capabilities and equipment including: Programmatic management, operations, scheduling and maintenance of Unified Communications equipment/systems (A/V, VTC, IPTV, collaboration services, email, class/unclass VoIP, mobile telephony, auditoriums, presentation centers, and specialized War Rooms), project management, planning, design (including architecture and engineering), and implementation of UC collaboration systems, services, applications and technologies. MDA currently utilizes IP based video conferencing platforms and has standardized systems on CISCO products and operating syste