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Amendment 02 - This amendment is to provide a list of vendors who have expressed interest in potential teaming arrangements for this solicitation. NOTE: This amendment is to provide notice that Solici... Amendment 02 - This amendment is to provide a list of vendors who have expressed interest in potential teaming arrangements for this solicitation. NOTE: This amendment is to provide notice that Solicitation W911QX19R0005 has been provided to all companies that have expressed interest and have been found to possess the required security clearance levels. The Solicitation was released on 09 April 2019 and will close on 09 May 2019. Interested vendors who have not submitted the information requested in this Synopsis may still do so; however vendors are cautioned that extensions to the Solicitation date are at the discretion of the Contracting Officer and may not be granted for offerors who submit the information required in this Synopsis after the release of the Solicitation. DESCRIPTION: The explosion of social media and interactive internet services has revolutionized the Information Environment (IE), and fundamentally created a sensor system comprised of billions of citizens observing and reporting activities across the globe. Additionally, global actors, both state and non-state, are using the same interactive internet system to plan and coordinate activities across the spectrum of operations. Essentially, the internet has become a ubiquitous Command and Control (C2) and sensor system that impacts the United States (US) and its allies' missions around the globe, including Shaping activities, force protection, counter-terrorism, counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and a myriad of others. In response, the Government has established the Secure Unclassified Network (SUNet): an off-Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN), For Official Use Only (FOUO)-accredited unclassified platform to enable the Department of Defense (DoD), US Government Interagency, and Coalition Partners to securely collaborate and share Publicly Available Information, FOUO data, analytics, and other enterprise services. This platform enables mission partners to establish virtual enclaves, control access to those enclaves, and to acquire, develop, and deploy mission-specific data sets and analytics that can be shared across multiple enclaves or restricted based on mission requirements. The objective of this effort is to manage, develop, enhance, integrate, test, deploy, and maintain the SUNet system infrastructure, as well as develop and implement SUNet enclaves for mission-specific requirements utilizing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) products with new data and collaboration features across US Government and foreign partner communities of interest. The Government anticipates the duration of the contract to be five (5) years. PURPOSE: The intent of this Pre-Solicitation Synopsis is to verify the security clearance information of interested offerors and to develop an "Interested Parties List" to be used in the development of this acquisition. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Security Clearance Eligibility - This notification provides the advanced opportunity for all potential offerors to submit their current clearance information for verification, prior to the official solicitation period. Those offerors who can confirm their eligibility of meeting the security requirements for this effort in advance of the official solicitation release will be eligible to participate in the draft and/or official solicitation process upon verification. In order to be eligible to participate in the draft and/or official solicitation process, offerors must submit their security clearance information and all potential offerors' security information must be verified prior to being provided a copy of the draft and/or official solicitation. In order to participate in the official solicitation, as well as allow the offeror to take advantage of the full official solicitation posting time frame, it is strongly recommended that offerors submit their clearance information by no later than 15 days after posting of this synopsis to allow for clearance verification to take place in time for the anticipated official solicitation release date. It is estimated that the official solicitation will be released by Febraury 2019. Offerors must have a valid U.S. facility clearance of Top Secret, Secret storage capability, and have technical personnel with Top Secret/ Special Compartmented Information (SCI) Clearance in order to have access to details under this draft and/or formal solicitation process. In order for this information to be verified, the offeror must provide the following: (1) Company name and address, (2) Contact information for their Facility Security Officer, (3) CAGE code for their Top Secret Facility Clearance, and (4) The name, social security number and email address of one (1) of their Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information (SCI) cleared technical personnel. Due to security clearance verification, responses to this notice are strongly recommended by NLT 15 days after posting of this synopsis, at 5:00 PM EST, in order to allow for offerors to take full advantage of the official solicitation posting time frame. Offerors must provide the required information to Nathaniel Drake, Contract Specialist, at Nathaniel.s.drake.civ@mail.mil. The offeror is encouraged to provide this information in an encrypted zip file using a 256-bit AES encryption (ex. Winzip) and submitting via encrypted email. No phone calls will be accepted as a means to verify clearance. Point of Contact for this notice is Nathaniel Drake, Contract Specialist, nathaniel.s.drake.civ@mail.mil.