Castle Keep Implementation and Sustainment

Background
The proposed action will result in the award of a non-personal services Indefinite Delivery / Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to provide comprehensive information technology support for the Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) CASTLE KEEP information system for the Special Security Office (SSO), Department of the Army G-2 (HQDA G-2). CASTLE KEEP will be the customer-facing portal to provide automated workflow services and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) program reporting, metrics, analysis, and information sharing within the Army SCI community DoDM 5105.21 requirements.
CASTLE KEEP will be hosted on the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS), Special Security Officers and other SCI officials will have access worldwide. CASTLE KEEP will be 'cloud compliant' utilizing the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE). CASTLE KEEP serves as a work process portal that will aid management of this organization’s responsibilities, along with interactions with supporting systems across various domains of Non-Security Internet Protocol Router (NIPR), Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and JWICS, to empower increasingly effective Army-wide SCI program oversight. During the life of the contract, the contractor shall provide comprehensive information technology support for software development, software sustainment, and system accreditation, system integration with the Army Military Intelligence (MI) Cloud on the JWICS network utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), and system sustainment and maintenance.

Work Details
The Contractor shall provide comprehensive information technology support as required to meet the Government’s mission. Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI) shall issue Task Orders (TO) against the resulting IDIQ contract.
Each TO will define the deliverables for each particular task and shall represent a Firm-Fixed- Price (FFP) response to a ACC-RI issued Task Order PWS and shall represent all personnel and materials required to provide a turn-key solution to ’s requirement as defined in the Task Order PWS. Information Technology (IT) support provided during the IDIQ contract period of performance shall include providing development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) system integration throughout; developing, testing, and integrating approved capability requirements in development and test software lifecycle environments; deploying and maintaining system in target production environment.

Period of Performance
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Place of Performance
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