Department of other Defense Agencies,  the  Washington Headquarters Services office, has released the final request for proposal (RFP) for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract opportunity on July 26, 2018. Along with the RFP, Government provided supportive documents and amendments to help potential contractors gain more insight into the opportunity.

Since the release of the first Draft RFP, the industry showed a great interest and submitted a lot of questions to the federal officials.

The contract type is Firm Fixed Price, and all task orders, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions, will be awarded under FFP.  This means that the contract will provide enterprise-level, commercial IaaS, and PaaS to support DoD business and mission operations.

The Contractor must meet industry-standard service level agreements (SLAs) and the requirements of this SOO regardless of the location where the services are being delivered. Services will be offered at all classification levels, across the home front to the tactical edge, including disconnected and austere environments, and closed-loop networks.

According to Ellen Lord, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, JEDI Cloud is purchasing foundational commercial cloud technologies that will help warfighters to execute a mission that is increasingly dependent on the usage of information more successfully. JEDI is a 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, single-award, with a maximum value of 10 billion dollars.

On a previous notice, the Offerors were notified that they could submit their bids until 10:00 am ET on September 17, 2018, on the last notice published in the official website of Federal Business Opportunities, it was announced that all proposal must be submitted until 9:00 am ET and 12:00 pm ET on October 12, 2018. Submissions received after 12:00 pm ET on October 12, 2018, will be considered late and may not be evaluated. Furthermore, proposals shall be captured on one or more DVDs and submitted in person only.

Most requirements must be met post-award. For example:

  • the solution provided in the proposal, all security requirements must be met 30 days of the conclusion of the post-award start event for unclassified services;
  • for the classified infrastructure capable of supporting Secret services and meeting Secret-level security requirements –   within 180 days;
  • for the classified infrastructure capable of supporting all classified services (including Top Secret, SCI, and SAP) and meeting all security requirements outlined in the JEDI Form DD – within 254 days.

The Update and Items that have undergone changes

On September 24, 2018, another notice has been published to inform the industry about the most recent changes in some of the Amendments. Below you can see which parts have undergone changes:

  • Paragraph 11 – Proposal Submission in Section L1: General RFP Instructions of HQ0034-18-R-0077_0002 has been amended to revise the submission requirements and extend the proposal deadline.
  • Box 15 in Attachment J-7: DD Form 254, DoD Contract Security Classification Specification for ID/IQ Amendment 0002 has been updated. The DD Form 254 has been replaced in its entirety with the updated version.

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