Notice ID: 832469639
This is a SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE to determine the availability and technical capability of small businesses (including the following subsets: Small Disadvantaged Businesses, Certified 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone Small Businesses and Woman-Owned Small Businesses) to provide the required products and/or services.
DISA is seeking information from potential sources for:
Web Content Filtering (WCF) Engineering and Sustainment Support Services. The WCF system was developed to meet requirements from the Joint Task Force—Global Network Operations and Information Assurance/Computer Network Defense Enterprise-wide Solutions Steering Group (IA/CND ESSG) to deploy a capability to scan and block malicious inbound and outbound traffic traversing through the Unclassified but Sensitive Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet), Internet Access Points (IAPs) and the NIPRNet Federated Gateways (NFG).
The current WCF system is used to protect the NIPRNet, IAP, and NFG traffic and is comprised of Palo Alto Next Generation firewalls, F5 SSL Orchestrators, Juniper routers, and a Splunk logging system. The WCF system delivers two basic enterprise-wide features:
- outbound Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering on a pre-defined list or a custom generated list created by the DISA Joint Operations Center (DJOC) and
- inbound spyware, malware, anti-virus, and vulnerability filtering on content from Internet servers to the Department of Defense (DoD) clients. WCF reduces the attack surface and increases mission assurance by providing custom and standard URL filtering and content filtering, including antivirus and anti-spyware signatures. WCF ensures delivery of mission critical traffic by providing dynamic rate limiting at the Internet Access Points (IAPs). WCF is deployed at six Contiguous United States (CONUS) sites and four Outside of the Contiguous United States (OCONUS) sites. WCF functionality has evolved since its initial deployment in 2009 from providing WCF for only outbound web-borne requests to the Internet, to providing Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) functionality for both inbound and outbound traffic on all ports. The WCF system includes the capability to inspect Transport Layer Security (TLS)-encrypted web traffic.
Tier III Engineering Support. The Web Content Filtering-Enterprise Break & Inspect (WCF-EBI) with NIPRNet Federated Gateway (NFG) team provides Tier II / Tier III support when requested, testing, and evaluating new versions of network firewall policies signatures, testing new signature updates and databases, testing and releasing new operating system (OS) updates for supporting servers and working with vendors to provide trouble ticket support for Tier II. Tier III Support identifies, isolates, and resolves software anomalies.
The anticipated Period of Performance is September 28, 2025, to September 27, 2030, inclusive of one 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods.
Incumbent Contract/Program Background:
- Contract Number: HC1028-18-D-0009
- Task Order Number: HC1028-20-F-6160
- Contract Vehicle: ENCORE III
- Full & Open Suite Incumbent and their size: Electronic Consulting Services (ECS) Federal, LLC,
- Large Business Method of previous acquisition: Fair Opportunity
- Period of performance: One-year base period and four one-year option periods
Base Year: September 28, 2020 – September 27, 2021
Option Year (OY) 1: September 28, 2021 – September 27, 2022
OY2: September 28, 2022 – September 27, 2023
OY3: September 28, 2023 – September 27, 2024
OY4: September 28, 2024 – September 27, 2025
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