Product Support/Sustainment Strategy

Section L

The offeror’s proposal shall include a Product Support/Sustainment Strategy that ensures the <Program Title> deliverables remain functional, sustainable, upgradable, and affordable. The Product Support/Sustainment Strategy shall: 1) Identify technical data and software that facilitate future competitive procurement; 2) Identify and explain how the proposed level of associated license rights will facilitate future competitive procurements; 3) Provide list of items that are available in the commercial market that can be procured by other contractors in a future competitive procurement (even without providing detailed technical information on these commercially available items); 4) Propose the procedures for leveraging technology to meet government mission goals and improving the capability over the lifecycle of the system; 5) Include the level of authorization for licensing technical data/software to alternate contractors who will be able to participate in future competitive procurements; 6) Delineate the required software, hardware components and configuration items; and 7) Identify those capabilities required for sustainment that are commercially available as well as non-commercial or modified commercial items.

Section M

The Government will evaluate the proposal for how and the extent to which the offeror will perform the following:

(a) leveraging technology to meet mission goals and improve capability over the lifecycle of the hardware and software;

(b) identifies license rights to facilitate future competitive procurement goals outlined in Section L;

(d) identifying capabilities for sustainment that are commercially available as well as non-commercial or modified commercial items.