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The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), Arlington, VA, is conducting market research for the developmental, implementation, and engineering efforts necessary to support the Analytics and Reporting for the Enterprise Sustainment (ARES) Tool, and the Balancing and Estimating Strategic Sourcing Tool (BESST) powered by Opus Suite software.

The F-35 JPO requires support for the Opus Suite software, to include installation and population of Opus Suite with F-35 Lightning II strategic sourcing data and associated commercially available interfacing architecture. The vendor will provide this capability in an Impact Level (IL) 5 certified cloud-based environment accessible via the Joint Virtual Enterprise (JVE). The JPO will require annual software upgrades and Tier 1 and 2 support for Opus Suite instances. In terms of BESST, the JPO will require migrating the current unclassified BESST functionality in a containerized IL5 application for the government cloud environment. Under the ARES requirement, the JPO requires formal development, implementation, and deployment of the cloud-based ARES software application in operational F-35 squadrons. ARES will capture real-time pilot derived structured data on the status of F-35 Aircraft and Mission Systems, and report that data directly to the JPO to support readiness initiatives and analytics through and in conjunction with BESST & Opus Suite.

Responses to the following Requirements are requested. These are intended as general market research: examples and descriptions of individual corporate experience or capability will be considered relevant only to the degree that it is indicative of the marketplace broadly. Responses that address some but not all of the items below are acceptable. In total, submission is limited to 3 pages.

Requirement 1 - Please provide the following:

• Company name, address, and webpage URL
• CAGE code and Unique Entity ID
• Authorized points of contact (telephone number and email address)
• Business classification (whether small business or other than small business) under NAICS code 541519 (Other Computer Related Services Custom Computer Programming Service)
• Whether the company has a DCAA approved accounting system.

Requirement 2 - Capability

What is the value and benefit that your company can provide in relation to this scope of work? Can you provide the Opus suite software in addition to the BESST and ARES tools as described in the introduction?

Requirement 3 - Data Rights

What data rights would be required to successfully complete this requirement?

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