Notice ID: FA701424XXXXX
The Secretary of the Air Force, Administrative Assistant, Information Management, Enterprise Business Solutions Division (SAF/AAIE), is a professional, customer-focused team dedicated to providing consultation and planning, business solutions, lifecycle support services, and software development services to support senior decision makers at Headquarters Air Force (HAF).
Scope
This requirement is to provide technical services for software development support and business solutions within SAF/AAIE. Technical services include enterprise architecture, requirements management, software engineering, systems engineering, software test management, and systems/server administration. Contractors will work as part of a team to develop new software applications or modify and sustain existing applications.
The Contractor shall perform a variety of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tasks in support of a portfolio of products developed by SAF/AAIE in support of the HAF. SAF/AAIE is committed to the use of repeatable and predictable software development processes and, as such, the Contractor shall work within teams and processes that work under Agile methodologies, organizational standard processes, and industry best practices. Tasks to be performed under these processes include Business Modeling and Analysis, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Requirements Elicitation and Analysis, Software Design and Implementation, Software Process Improvement, Test and Quality Assurance, and Configuration and Change Management. In addition, the Contractor shall be required to understand Agile development methodologies, and DoD and Air Force Standards to be able to properly perform the following tasks:
- Manage configuration of software items
- Model business processes
- Develop business cases
- Establish project baselines and priorities
- Estimate project cost, duration, and levels of effort, including work breakdown structures and project schedules
- Work with the Government to establish customer software and IT requirements
- Manage scope of requirements
- Collaborate and communicate requirements in an Agile development environment
- Develop use cases and other requirements documents
- Create and execute test plans
- Manage risks to include identifying, analyzing, tracking, and mitigating risks
The Contractor shall provide technical services in object-oriented (OO) and database-backed web application software development using iterative SDLC to include Agile software development methodologies. The Contractor shall provide technical services in SharePoint Online application development using Microsoft Office 365 infrastructure, including tools such as Power Platform and other SharePoint-adjacent technologies. The Contractor shall provide personnel with the expertise to support SAF/AAIE software engineering services for the Headquarters Air Force in the following roles and tasks. The Government is still in the early acquisition planning stage and all activities at this time are considered market intelligence. This is a Request for Information (RFI) and is NOT a request for proposals and the information received will be utilized for acquisition planning purposes. Responders are advised that the Government will not pay for any information or administrative cost incurred with response to this announcement and information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.
This work is currently being satisfied under the SAF/AAIE contract FA8771-12-D-1006-X001. This is the fourth and final option year with a Period of Performance (PoP) of 1 February 2024 – 31 January 2025. Previously, the requirement has used GSA IT70 as a contract vehicle.
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