Office of Small Business Programs

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Office of Small Business Programs

• Doing Business with the
• National Security Agency

Information Technology and BRAC Finding and
Securing Opportunities With Maryland Procurement
Technical Assistance Center NSA Office of Small
Business Programs Pamela L. Porter, Director June
2, 2009 Sheraton Fourpoints Linthicum, MD
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Agenda

• What Is NSA Looking For?
• How Do We Acquire?
• Acquisition Resource Center
• Doing Business with NSA
• Marketing Opportunities
• Additional Support

• PISA
• Contract Opportunities
• AXISS
• NSETS II
• LIVEWIRE
• Mentor Protégé Program
• Points of Contact
• Questions

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What is NSA Looking For?

• The breadth of products and services NSA acquires
  is varied.
• Your Agency customer base breaks into three broad
  categories
• Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT This is the
  classic codebreaking
• Information Assurance, or IA This is the
  codemaking side of the Agencys mission.
• Mission Enablers. This is the glue that holds
  everything together.

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What is NSA Looking For?NAICS codes

• 541330    Engineering Services
• 541511    Custom Computer Programming Services
• 541519    Other Computer Related Services
  Information Technology Value Added Resellers
• 541513    Computer Facilities Management Services
• 541512    Computer Systems Design Services
• 334220    Radio and Television Broadcasting and
  Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
• 334111    Electronic Computer Manufacturing

• 541712    Research and Development in the
  Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except
  Biotechnology)
• 334119    Other Computer Peripheral Equipment
  Manufacturing
• 221121    Electric Bulk Power Transmission and
  Control
• 236220    Commercial and Institutional Building
  Construction
• 337214    Office Furniture (Except Wood)
  Manufacturing
• 561612    Security Guards and Patrol Services
• 561611    Investigation Services

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What is NSA Looking For?(contd)

• General
• Signal Processing
• Cryptanalysis
• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Science
• High Performance Computing
• Telecommunications Systems Architecture
• Database Technology

• Particular Products
• System/Software Engineer Solutions
• Data, voice, and wireless technologies
• Education Training
• Construction
• Hardware/Software
• Workstations
• Software Licenses
• Servers

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How Do We Acquire?

• NSA does not openly advertise our business
  opportunities on FEDBIZOPPS www.fedbizopps.gov
• NSA follows the Federal Acquisition Regulation
  (FAR) www.arnet.gov/far and Defense supplement
  to FAR (DFARS) www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars/htm
  l/r20070913/tochtml.htm
• NSA makes use of the National Security Exception
  which allows for Other Than Full and Open
  Competition
• We match our requirements with potential vendors
  through market research
• Market Research Tool - ARC

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Acquisition Resource Center

• The ARC is NSAs principal market research tool
• Vendors with appropriate clearances will be able
  to
• Review acquisition related announcements
• Business Forecasts
• Requests for Information/Request for Proposals
• Search on Business Registry, Contractor
  Bidders Library, and make inquiries on-line
  (future)
• Must register and keep current You will become
  part of the Business Registry from which NSA
  will be able to conduct market surveys

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Doing Business with NSA

• The NSA Office of Small Business Programs
  Bi-weekly Briefings are informational sessions
• The briefing includes
• Acquisition Resource Center (ARC)
• Business registry
• Networking and marketing opportunities
• Industrial security overview
• Provision Industry Security Approval (PISA)
• Additional Resources
• Small Business Updates
• Sessions are conducted every 2nd and 4th
  Wednesday, approximately
• Go to https//www.nsaarc.net/biweekly

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Marketing Opportunities

• Capability Briefings
• NSA Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC)
• Initial entry point for vendors who want to
  establish partnerships with the agency.
• This office has a Vendor Capabilities
  Presentation Program for vendors with security
  enhancing products.
• Cutting edge technology
• www.nsa.gov/ia/industry/index.cfm
• ist_at_nsa.gov
• Conferences
• NSA Acquisition/Industry Symposium (NA/IS)
  (Spring)
• NSA Commercial Acquisition Conference (NCAC)
  (Fall)
• Tech Expos
• Events are excellent for any company with a
  gee-whiz technology
• FBC at www.fbcinc.com and NCSI at
  www.ncsievents.com.
• Business-In-A-Minute
• Business speed-dating meetings between industry
  representatives, NSA prime contractors, and NSA
  government offices
• Held twice a year once in the Fall and another
  in the Spring

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Additional Support

• One-on-One Counseling
• Clarify questions remaining from briefing
• Discuss specific obstacles and challenges to
  marketing
• Guidance, counseling, brainstorming, and what
  if scenarios
• Must be registered in ARC
• How
• Email smallbusiness_at_nsa.gov to schedule

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Provisional Industrial Security Approval (PISA)

• Located within the Industry Outreach and
  Facilitation office
• To facilitate classified discussions on
  technologies and capabilities of interest and
  benefit to the NSA
• Sponsors small business entities that offer
  unique capabilities required by the NSA and where
  there is a clear need for increased
  socio-economic development.
• Cultivates a healthy competitive environment
• Leadership adding additional capability to this
  program to include
• Adding TK to personnel clearance
• Adding additional CPRL slots for companies
  already in program

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NSA Contract Opportunities

• There are currently three contract opportunities
  we can discuss here.
• AXISS
• CACI
• Computer Science Corporation
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Northrop Grumman
• NSETS II
• 34 Prime contractors
• LIVEWIRE
• URS Group Washington
• Small Business subcontracting opportunities

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AXISS

• AXISS supports IT requirements in many areas, to
  include
• Infrastructure Management
• Information Systems
• Intelligence Support and Information Systems
• Corporate Business Information Systems
• It will continue to be ITDs primary vehicle for
  Internal Service Provider requirements

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NSETS II

• Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)
  contract vehicle
• Five functional areas are
• Business/SETA
• Engineering
• Training
• Information Technology
• Operations

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LIVEWIRE

• Major program
• Repair and replacement of existing utility
  infrastructure
• Repair and replacement of buildings agency wide

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Mentor Protégé Program

• DoD prime contractor in operation for 3 years or
  more Mentor is responsible for selecting protégé
  
• Should have the ability to obtain personnel and
  facility clearances
• Focus on innovative transfer of state-of-the-art
  technology
• Demonstrate a comprehensive protégé needs
  assessment, e.g., SEI/CMMI/ISO 9000/ITIL
  certifications
• Business infrastructure and management
  assistance only agreements will not be considered
• Current Mentors
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• SAIC

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Points of Contact

• Office of Small Business Programs
• 443-479-9560
• smallbusiness_at_nsa.gov
• Acquisition Resource Center
• 443-479-9560
• nsaarc_at_nsaarc.net
• PISA Program
• 443-479-9560
• pisa_at_nsa.gov
• NSETS Program
• 443-479-9560
• nsets_at_nsa.gov

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