$10B Air Force networking program RFP is out
The Air Force released a request for proposals for its $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program last Friday after several months of delay. The program will be a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity acquisition to provide a wide variety of IT products, solutions and services.
The Air Force has finally released a request for proposals for its $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program.
The all-encompassing Netcents RFP was released last Friday after several months of delay. The program will be a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity acquisition to provide a wide variety of IT products, solutions and services.
Engineering, software development, integration, telephony, security, and voice, video and data communications will be included under the program.
The Air Force wants to hire four large companies and three small companies as prime contractors. Netcents also will be open to the Defense Department and other federal agencies.
Air Force officials said the contract would satisfy the requirements for interoperability, compatibility and resource sharing and would support the agency's Global Information Grid architecture.
The RFP is posted at http://www.herbb.hanscom.af.mil/; on the FedBizOps site at http://www.fedbizopps.gov/; and on the Netcents Web site at https://web1.ssg.gunter.af.mil/AFITC/NetCents/NetCents_default.asp.