Army: Soldier Led Software Factory - PreSolicitation

Suspense: 8 January 2021 Description:  Army Futures Command (AFC) anticipates issuing a Call for white papers, with follow on opportunity to submit proposals by invitation only, for a competitively-awarded prototype Other Transaction Agreement. This pre-solicitation notice provides draft documentation to support the Army Futures Command Soldier-Led Software Factory.

Category: Opportunity

DoD Communities of Interest: C4I

Subject: Soldier Led Software Factory - PreSolicitation

Due Date: Jan 08, 2021 11:59 pm EST

Government Organization: Army Futures Command

Description

Army Futures Command (AFC) anticipates issuing a Call for white papers, with follow on opportunity to submit proposals by invitation only, for a competitively-awarded prototype Other Transaction Agreement. This pre-solicitation notice provides draft documentation to support the Army Futures Command Soldier-Led Software Factory.

Army Futures Command (AFC) requires the Awardee to collaboratively prototype the Army’s first Soldier-led Software Factory. The Factory shall be staffed, built, and run from zero existing infrastructure or policy precedent, to ultimately transition to Army self-sustaining operation as a fully-uniformed agile software development unit without a heavy reliance on contracted presence. The Factory must organize, train, and operate in-line with modern industry technology standards, prototyping a reproducible force design and associated processes for widespread implementation in the future operating environment.

A call with applicable requirements, instructions, and evaluation procedures to Offerors will be posted on this website (beta.sam.gov). All Offerors that certify eligibility with the OTA statute may submit a whitepaper proposal to be considered for this requirement. All interested parties must be registered in the System Award Management (www.sam.gov). It is the responsibility of the interested parties to independently review the referenced web link (beta.sam.gov) frequently for posting of the solicitation and updates to any and all documents. Potential Offerors will be responsible for downloading their copy of the RFP and amendments, if any.

Key Dates: The following is a summary of the anticipated events and dates associated with

this Call:

EVENT ESTIMATED DATE/TIMEFRAME

Call Released On or about 28 December 2020

Whitepapers Due 19 January 2021

Whitepaper Feedback**/ 26-27 January 2021

Invitation to submit Proposals 27 January 2021

Proposals Due 9 February 2021

Award 8 March 2021

**Whitepaper feedback shall be provided only to Offerors being considered for an

invitation for proposal. Receipt of feedback is not an invitation to submit a proposal.

Offerors shall not submit a proposal unless formally requested via an invitation to submit a

proposal letter.

Website: https://beta.sam.gov/opp/52e67facf3084e8d85a61582dbb2143d/view