Notice ID: FA852725RB003
Service-Oriented Architecture Enterprise Service Bus (SOA ESB) system is a DCGS enterprise-wide message brokering service present within the DCGS weapon system. The DCGS program is the present and future ground solution for in-theater and Reach-Back/Reach-In PED capabilities.
Objectives: The following are the services required to conduct SOA-ESB software development and associated SOA-ESB software, DCGS and Platform One (P1) community support.
The contractor shall develop software and provide community support using an Agile software development methodology. As directed by the Government, the contractor shall respond to schedule and programmatic changes of technical requirements, implementation changes, and operational needs. This may require an increase or decrease in the contractor’s team size. The SOA-ESB development effort encompasses but is not limited to technical assessments, architectural design, technical documentation creation and sustainment, software engineering, new feature development, improvement to existing functionality, configuration management, system test, Information Assurance (IA) artifacts development, IA testing and support, and DCGS community operational support.
Development shall also include support to third party (contractor and/or Government) provided component(s). During software development the contractor will interface as required with the Government Test Team and/or other government-directed team/resources as an integrated development team and develop software capabilities prioritized by a Government Product Owner. Software delivered to the Government will be continuously tested as required to verify stated capability functionality and performance. This support will include architecture design, architecture framework development, API interface design and development and capabilities development integration, testing and test support. SOA-ESB support currently also includes interfaces to open-source communities/organizations (e.g., Codice, Apache, etc.) for things such as Distributed Data Framework (DDF) and Alliance support, development and other activities including recommended changes to the DDF or other SOA-ESB subcomponents to include, but not limited to, KEIP/KEIP Canvas, Kubernetes, Artemis/Artemis Cloud, Spring Integration, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Citrus Integration Testing Framework, Cert Manager/Trust Manager, Zookeeper, Terraform, AWS, Bash scripting, Gitlab, Prometheus, Grafana, TimescaleDB, Jupyter Notebook, and OpenTelemetry. Similarly, the Contractor must demonstrate understanding of Government off the shelf (GOTS) software provided by the government. SOA-ESB community support may also include providing technical support, exercise support, deficiency fixes to previous versions of SOA-ESB, SOA-ESB training, or system integration support to Government services and agencies and their integration contractors. (A017) …
The basic contract’s Ordering Period will be four [HA1] [CA2] (4) years consisting of a basic year and three (3) optional one-year ordering periods.
