It may be for this Training and Exercise Support for the MAUL...

It may be for this Training and Exercise Support for the MAUL perhaps? I guess we will just have to wait and see?



Released: 12/2/10 Bids due: 2/15/11
Solicitation #: W911W410R0011
ESTIMATED VALUE: $9.7 Billion

The purpose of the DLITE contracts is to provide DoD Enterprise entities and other government agencies and organizations with world class foreign language and regional expertise competencies for and to managed to maximize the accession, development, maintenance, enhancement, and employment of these critical skills appropriate to the Government?s mission needs in a efficient and cost-effective manner. This is a hybrid Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with multiple types of pricing structures available.

Program Name: Department of Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise (DLITE)

History: In support of our national security, including the war on terror, Operation Iraqi Free, Operation Enduring Freedom, and other interaction with the UN and NATO, There is a need for linguistic capability: communicate, decipher, translate, and interpret with other foreign military units and governments. INSCOM is fulfilling this requirement for defense language interpretation and translation on behalf of the Department of Defense.

Solicitation Number: W911W4-10-R-0011

Agency: Department of Army, Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)

Estimated Value: $ 7.9B

Contract Type and Other Characteristics: From the Draft RFP: This is a hybrid Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with multiple types of pricing structures available to the KO. Preference will be hybrid of fixed price and cost reimbursable task orders. The ordering period for this contract is for five years from date of award of the contract(s). Task orders may be issued to include options and may be for a base period of up to one year with up to four one option periods with each period not to exceed one year.

The window for receiving requests for comments on the published Draft RFP is now closed.

Goals and Objectives: Provide personnel, management and other non-personal services to support INSCOM. There are three areas of defined support or mission areas: Routine Operational Support ? a small business set-aside; Training and Exercise Support ? also a small business set-aside; and Contingency Operations Support ? an Open Competition.

Structure of the RFP: The requirements detail three independent Statements of Objectives (SOOs) ? one for each of the defined mission areas.

According to the Draft RFP (L.9.0): This Statement of Objectives (SOO) provides basic, top-level objectives of the Department of Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise (DLITE) acquisition and is provided in lieu of a Government-written Performance Work Statement (PWS). It is designed to provide offerors with the flexibility to develop cost-effective solutions and the opportunity to propose innovative alternatives meeting the DLITE objectives. Offerors shall use the SOO, together with other applicable portions of this RFP, as the basis for preparing their proposal, including the Contract Work Breakdown Structure (CWBS), PWS, Quality Control Plan (QCP), and Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL). The offeror shall ensure all aspects of the SOO are addressed. The offeror?s understanding of both required services, and work effort required to accomplish should be fully demonstrated in the offeror's proposed CWBS, PWS, QCP, and CDRL.

Three SOOs are provided for three separate mission areas. Mission areas are:

? Training and Exercise Support requirements ? Exercises, cultural familiarity and awareness missions, primarily temporary in nature. This will be a small business set-aside.
? Routine Operational Support requirements ? performance in day-to-day operations, work optioned primarily in one year increments. This, also, will be a small business set-aside.
? Contingency Operations Support requirements ? performance in support of forces engaged in humanitarian, peacekeeping, contingency and combat operations without a well defined timeframe or quantity for delivery

Training and Exercise Support, and Routine Operational requirements will be set-aside for small business competition, while contingency operation support requirements will be full and open competition. Small businesses will be permitted to submit proposals for any or all of the three mission areas; however they will be required to submit separate proposals for each mission area.

Resources of OCI can be beneficial:

Based on the Draft RFP, this will not be an easy proposal to develop. A competitive and compliant DLITE proposal will require forward and detailed planning.

OCI has the expertise and resources of professional proposal consultants to assist you with:

1. Capture planning
2. Teaming Strategies
3. A Black Hat Review
4. Competitive analysis
5. Proposal Management
6. Proposal Writing
7. Pricing analysis
8. Proposal Production
9. Red Team Review
10. Whole Proposal Team