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Click here for NAVSEA's Seaport-e Website This page provides the following Seaport-e contract information for which NAVSEA has requested this information posting. In addition, click Past Performance to see the team's professional support services experience, listed by functional area and zone, including a point of contact for each prior contract. Team Members Quality Assurance Task Orders ReceivedAs of this writing, the NAVSEA Seaport contract is recently issued, and there are no outstanding task orders. The following table shows the format that task order information will be displayed in once that information becomes available and approved for release as required.
Team MembersOpen System Sciences, Inc. (OSS) has assembled a team of eight (8) highly qualified, industry leading companies to provide the best value to NAVSEA for engineering, technical, and programmatic support services for the SEAPORT ENHANCED program. OSS and these 8 other companies (TEAM OSS) provide offices in all regions, have skills and expertise in all functional areas, and experience in all product areas. Each team member was specifically chosen to complement the optimum mix of skills to meet the NAVSEA functional requirements. TEAM OSS is comprised of a mix of small and large companies who collectively meet the functional experience in all areas and all zones. Our partnerships with biometric software companies, major solutions providers, and security focused companies positions us as a small business that combines technological innovation, industry focus, services excellence, and financial stability. Open System SciencesFounded in 1991, Open System Sciences ("OSS") provides comprehensive high-technology services and products to design, build, manage and enhance distributed enterprise IT environments. Whether it's a large-scale strategic information system or a small system conversion, OSS' strong technical expertise and extensive industry alliances provide a single source alternative to today's multi-vendor world of Information Technology. OSS has more than ten years experience providing qualified and cleared technical staff to design and support secure networks serving more than 2,000 users, with over 15,000 users worldwide currently supported. This experience includes support for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD-C4I), the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Military Sealift Command (MSC), Pentagon Telecommunications Center (PTC), and the United States Coast Guard Finance Center (USCG FINCEN). AnteonAnteon is a leading provider of information technology solutions and advanced engineering services to government clients. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, they have a 27 plus-year corporate history marked by continual growth in revenue and customer base, with approximately 7,600 employees at over 100 offices serving more than 1000 customer organizations worldwide. They are led by a senior management team whose members average over 20 years of management experience and nearly eight years tenure with Anteon. Open System Sciences works with Anteon on a regular basis as a subcontractor, including the Enabling Technologies contract. Rockwell AutomationRockwell Automation ("RA") is a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions. A strong partnering program and a strategy to build knowledge across customers? applications provides unmatched resources and expertise to deliver machinery control aboard US Navy vessels, chemical weapons demilitarization, and global support. Headquartered in Milwaukee, the Control Systems division is organized into three operating units: Components and Packaged Applications, Automation Control and Information Group and Global Manufacturing Solutions. These businesses provide a comprehensive suite of Automation Solutions along a value-added continuum that ranges from power and components to control and information platforms to global manufacturing solutions. Products available from RA include Integrated Networks, Programmable Controllers, Human-Machine Interface, Software MMI/HMI, Sensing Products, Industrial Controls, Power Transmission, Scalable Intelligent I/O Platforms, Motors, Intelligent Motor Control, Drives, Motor Control Centers, and Asset Management. RA is represented in more than eighty countries with over 450 sales and support offices and 3,500 distributors/agents worldwide. Globally, one in every five employees is in the field, specifically charged with serving customer needs. RA has a history of successes with the U.S. Navy, from the Mine Countermeasure (MCM) ship class to weapons elevators on Aircraft Carriers. Rockwell Automation shipboard control and information systems consist of Open distributed and reconfigurable architecture; Commercial-off-the-shelf equipment; High-speed communication and wireless sensors; Resource and diagnostic control reconfiguration at all system levels; and Milspec compliance at the system level (901D). Systems Engineering, Inc.Systems Engineering, Inc. is an Asian-Owned SDB with more than 20 years of comprehensive experience in the IT arena, and senior management with over 24 years of government service, including 7 years of acquisition, program, and contract management in some of the largest, most visible programs in the Department of Defense. Government agencies that SEI has supported either with Prime or Subcontracts, include NAVSEA, Military Sealift Command, Army National Guard, Washington State Army National Guard, and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Core capabilities include Advanced Distributive Courseware Development; Information Assurance; Network Design and Integration, Facility Management, and Cabling and Infrastructure. Optimal Solutions & Technologies (OST)OST is an 8(a) company founded by a team of highly qualified and experienced engineers and information technology executives. They provide full operational support in a number of disciplines to assist in meeting client’s needs. Core capabilities include IT Strategic Planning and Policy Development, Business Process Baselining and Blueprinting, System Re-architecture, Architecture Engineering, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Change Management Facilitation, Information Assurance, Electronic Document Management Systems, Current State Process & System Assessment, and is the only 8(a) to be certified at CMM Level 3. Matrix EngineersMatrix Engineers is a SBA 8(a) Certified Native-American, Woman-Owned, Small Disadvantaged Business that was established in 1988, and is based in San Marcos, California. Matrix has grown from a family-owned and operated engineering firm to a well established corporation of talented Engineers and IT professionals spanning from California to Washington D.C. They are a provider of enterprise engineering and technology products and services. With mature industry expertise and proven experience in engineering and technology solutions, Matrix Engineers can mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to meet NAVSEA’s needs. GlobalGlobal has been performing on NAVSEA contracts since 1982. Global operates and maintains the U.S. Navy Inactive Ship Maintenance Facilities (NISMF) at various locations. Global also maintains the Navy's central inventory of emergency ship salvage material; the specialized equipment for underwater ship repairs and deep ocean recovery; and performs pollution remediation services. With over 2000 employees and $123M in annual revenue, Global is a leader in the area Ship Inactivation with offices and/or contracts in 5 of the geographic regions. PCCI, Inc.PCCI, Inc. is a veteran’s owned small business that has specialized experience in environmental engineering of marine systems, ship salvage engineering, and diving and life support systems. For over twenty years, PCCI has provided sensible solutions to difficult engineering and environmental problems in coastal, ocean and inland environments. Their hands-on experience in environmental planning and protection, marine equipment engineering and fabrication, and ocean project management, has allowed PCCI to deliver sensible answers to their client’s most demanding engineering and environmental questions. PCCI provides technical services from their USA offices in Alexandria, Portsmouth, and Williamsburg, Virginia; Ventura, California; Anchorage, Alaska; and Honolulu, Hawaii; and from our project sites throughout the world. LSALSA is an American Indian woman-owned small business provider of systems engineering, management and technical services. Founded in 1982, headquartered in Northern Virginia, with the LSA Photonics and Communications Divisions conduct research, development and production in facilities in Exton, PA. Specialties include acquisition and systems management support, systems engineering management, systems integration, laser optics and photonics, information technology solutions, research and development in night vision devices and other sensors, communications systems, warfare systems analyses, and production support. LSA analysts and managers have world-class expertise in cost analysis, technology assessment, trade studies and business process engineering for activities at the leading edge of sensor and information technology. LSA uses state-of-the-art Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools for functional and requirements analyses of complex systems. This combination of capabilities makes LSA uniquely qualified to address a wide range of IT engineering activities from component and subsystem design and analysis to full-scale system modeling. LSA excels in reducing the risk, controlling cost, and enhancing operational utility during the transition from R&D to production. LSA Photonics Division in Exton, PA, conducts innovative R&D and develops system hardware for optical, sensor, and communications applications. LSA’s engineers and scientists includes experts in photonics, optical, electro-optical, electronic, mechanical, and integrated systems design. Our communications experts are involved with man-on-the-ground, vehicle, ship and space-based laser communications. LSA photonics personnel are pursuing developmental projects for the US Coast Guard, Air Force, Marines, and Navy. LSA uses state-of-the art hardware and software design models to adapt innovative optical systems and technologies for other uses, including liquid crystals, free-space lasers, holographic storage, optical processing and computing, spatial-light modulators, laser radar, adaptive optics, and infrared multi-spectral detection. Finally, LSA Communications designs, manufactures, and integrates the commercially successful family of SupraConnect TM free-space optical (laser) devices for the communications industry and the Department of Defense. Quality AssuranceIn today's environment of cost cutting and productivity enhancements, most common engineering, technical, and programmatic support services increase the number of people required to support the functions, and these new people are senior level engineering and support types; very expensive in most cases. Typical costs extend into the hundreds of thousands of dollars purchasing hardware and software not to mention the additional personnel. The ideal system should be designed and implemented around the real work processes. It should focus the tools toward those staff members supporting the managed area, in a manner that makes their job easier and faster. Information associated with a problem or symptom should mean something to the support personnel. If they see the problem at a glance, they should know which specific area that problem belongs and what to do to get started in the trouble isolation process. Other personnel in the organization should know that a specific technician is looking into the problem as the problem may be affecting other areas. Quality starts with the assurance of absolute prime contractor accountability to NAVSEA. Our management team will continually evaluate performance based on technical approach, cost savings, timeliness and continuous process improvements. The individuals assigned to the tasks will participate with the government personnel in analyzing new requirements, making recommendations to correct deficiencies and discussing new capabilities to satisfy emerging requirements. Success is not a single goal ?it is a never-ending process that requires constant diligence to achieve and maintain. Likewise, quality improvement is a continuous process. It can only be achieved by the ongoing commitment of each individual in an organization to quality in everything they do. The responsibilities associated with providing professional, highly reliable, and technically capable IT and Program support to the NAVSEA mission, consistent with applicable Federal and DoD directives and policy, represents a substantial undertaking both in terms of investment and risk. The OSS Team has the experience, capacity, and specialized expertise to ensure all services performed under the awarded Delivery and Task Order(s) are meticulous, expertly delivered, and scrupulously tested and documented, as required. Key to our successful management is a structured process that identifies task requirements, effectively allocates resources, ensures visibility of task accomplishment, measures progress, and validates performance. This approach uses a project work plan, schedule, and budget as the baseline management tools to ensure that performance meets contract requirements. Management information resources provide the Program Manager with the visibility to measure progress and performance, and internal control mechanisms such as quality assurance, risk mitigation and audits permit the interjection of corrective actions, as required, to ensure success. Our matrix support organization provides NAVSEA with cost-effective flexibility. The managers are able to assist each other with their efforts by pulling on their experience in similar projects that they and their companies have worked on previously. Our quality review cycle for deliverables is a teaming approach wherein Task Leaders will be involved in the review and critique of work products of other Task Leaders. As necessary we have access to specific subject matter experts for particular product or program reviews. Our management team is structured to provide a horizontal integration across all regions and products areas for similar services. They are also vertically aligned so they have a full understanding of all projects and tasks under the contract. Our senior leaders of our companies have previous work experience as government employees within the Department of the Navy as well as NAVSEA. We have on-staff several retired NAVSEA military leaders who will help us keep pace of NAVSEA and Navy policy and direction. Other Team members are active in various professional societies including ASNE, SNAME, and other to help our Team keep abreast of the latest technical and political changes. Responsiveness and Customer CooperationEach project is assigned a Project Manager for management and leadership of all tasking associated with the Program. Depending on the requirements and Scope of Work, a Deputy Project Manager or Task Leader may be assigned to the Team. The Program Manager is selected by OSS Executive Management based on the individual’s abilities to best lead the specific project, without regard to assigned organizational element. The Program Manager is responsible and accountable for ensuring the Team takes effective, coordinated actions to deliver the completed project tasks according to the Project Management Plan. The Program Manager manages all Team resources, including selected subcontractors, information and commitments, and leads and facilitates the Team towards effective project development and execution of all phases and or Task / Delivery Orders applicable under the Project. The customer is an integral part of the Project Team as the customer’s primary Point of Contact (POC) is the Program Manager, who must seamlessly integrate Project efforts to deliver the best possible solutions for the customer. The Program Manager encourages and facilitates Project Team members in communicating directly with the Project organizational issues related to execution of their specialty area of the Project. Problem ResolutionOSS utilizes effective communication to interact internally as a team, and externally with partners, subcontractors, and customers. It is not possible to produce quality Projects or maintain quality relationships without this type of communication. Communication is the starting point of the Project Management Process, and is essential to foster the cooperation and focused understanding of requirements and expected outcomes, and the continuous improvement to the business processes that are so vital to continued success. Effective communication is critical to the meaningful exchange of ideas, desires, requirements and plans. In order to fully understand the needs and expectations of customers, OSS practices effective communications techniques, with emphasis on listening. Better listening leads to better understanding and better service. Effective and credible communications is basic to an organization, and must be interactive, and therefore we apply it from Project initiation through Project completion. We believe our management approach to task management will resolve problems before they become a major problem to NAVSEA and thereby mitigate the need for NAVSEA action. Should NAVSEA deem it necessary to take action regarding a problem, our approach is to maintain a flexible but clear set of options for NAVSEA to interact with our management team. Through designated points of contact, identified in our task management organization, NAVSEA has the flexibility to communicate directly at any level of our organization without going through a hierarchy of managers. Each Task Manager will be able to contact the appropriate team member if problems arise. Resolution will include internal communication within the management team to ensure the attention of the appropriate management level and to document and communicate lessons learned to be shared across the entire team as appropriate. Our expectation is that problems will be minimized and addressed at the local level; hoeever, should the NAVSEA customer feel that their problems are not being resolved to their satisfaction they are only call, “click? or email away for a prompt mutually acceptable resolution. Our team members are incentivized on the basis of their individual tasks as well as the overall contract performance. Based on the specific Task Order awarded compensation and/or incentives will be developed to ensure the goals and objectives of NAVSEA are achieved. These incentives may take many forms and will be tailored to the specific requirement and companies involved. OSS POC for IDIQ ContractsJames Dick |
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