MCICOM MCFMIS Follow-on Sources Sought

PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT (PWS) MARINE CORPS INSTALLATIONS COMMAND (MCICOM) FOOD SERVICE AND SUBSISTENCE SECTION (G-4) SERVICES BRANCH (LFS) FACILITIES AND SERVICES DIVISION (LF) INSTALLATIONS AND LOGISTICS DEPARTMENT (L) MARINE CORPS FOOD INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUPPORT 1. SCOPE. The purpose of this Performance Work Statement is to outline requirements needed to support a Class I information Management System (Marine Corps Food Management Information System (MCFMIS)). This system will provide the Marine Corps Food Service Program with a tool to determine subsistence requirements; conduct inventory; generate and modify recipes menus, and production lists, analyze nutritional content, figure cost, and capture point of sale information. The software will be installed at all Marine Corps commands within the Continental United Sates (CONUS) and Outside the Continental United States (OCONUS). The Marine Corps will require a perpetual corporate license with unlimited users for use of software. The perpetual license will cover all enhancements/modifications to the Commercial of the Shelf (COTS) resulting from engineering changes and required interfaces. 2. Background. In 1997, the United States Marine Corps implemented a DOS based COTS software package to manage their entire garrison feeding operations. Over the next ten plus years, the COTS product adopted the name Marine Corps Food Management System (MCFMIS) and was continually enhanced to meet the Marine Corps needs. While many of the higher-level modules were implemented for the software providers civilian customer base as a whole, several were done at the request of the Marine Corps’ MCFMIS system. In 2006 the Marine Corps upgraded to a re-engineered and re-designed web-enabled, Windows based platform, designed to take advantage of the cutting-edge of technology for the Food Service industry. While the originally upgraded package was 100% COTS, the Marine Corps eventually identified and purchased some of the specific functionality contained in the original legacy system. In 2018, the Marine Corps transitioned MCFMIS to support both garrison food operations and field food service operations. This change incorporated the term Field Marine Corps Food Management Information System or FMCFMIS. This enhancement allows for auditability and management of requests and inventory for field rations as well as money allocated to field contract feeding. With the introduction of new financial policy and software programs in the Marine Corps, evolving cybersecurity requirements, and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) subsistence supply chain Modernization efforts, the need to continue software enhancements is evident. The Marine Corps contract with its current software provider ends, 31 March 2027. The Marine Corps’ goal is to provide its users with a internet and cloud-based system that allows designated users to work from any location on any computer. The software shall support food management operations in an “unconnected” mode so that users can still access all capabilities of the system if the Internet is unavailable for a given time. The software shall incorporate DOD Single Sign On (SSO) technology to achieve DOD Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Public Key (PK) Enabling IAW Department of Defense (DoD) Information Technology (IT) Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap, to eliminate the need for username and passwords to connect. The software shall provide the basic core functions of: meal planning, food ordering, inventory control, forecasting, headcount recording, recipe management, budget and financial management and reporting, as well as enhanced use by personnel involved in menu development, menu evaluation, nutrition education, nutrition research, food research and development, and patron verification/accountability. The processes should be the same in peacetime, contingency and war, in CONUS as well as OCONUS. The Marine Corps collects and manages vast amounts of data within MCFMIS. Turning that data into information and using that information to intelligently manage government operations is a huge challenge. In some cases, it may take days or weeks to pull together data from different sources and reports, to obtain historical, current, and predictive information required for effect business operations. The Marine Corps is looking for a way to access timely, detailed, and trustworthy data to drive timely decision making. The Government believes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing will enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision making. The Software Provider shall implement a solution that incorporates a software module to help the Government achieve a solution that integrates the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. MCFMIS must be able to function consistently in peacetime, contingency, and war. MCFMIS shall be accessible from authorized computers that have access to the worldwide web. The Food Management system must allow for operations even when the web is not accessible at a site. Data and transactions should be capable of being submitted in real time via the Internet and be capable of being “batched” at such times when the web is not accessible and transmitted when web access is again available. The MCFMIS system must also be able to automatically re-synchronize data and operations when connection to the web is re-established. The Marine Corps anticipates that extensions to the selected COTS Food Service Management software, as well as changes to business practices will be needed to provide a complete automated solution that satisfies our military as well as our civilian food service contractor’s requirements for subsistence production and logistics. 2.1 Food Service Organization Background The Marine Corps must feed its personnel in various environments a…