Acquisition Directorate graham.hindle@ncia.nato.int Telephone: +32 (0)2 707 8857 Fax: +32 (0)2 707 8770 15 February 2017 Advance Notification of forthcoming Market Survey APMS NCI Agency is providing advance notification of its intent to issue a Market Survey to Nations and their Industry regarding the availability of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products to meet the requirements of an automated personnel and manpower management system for the NATO Command Structure, static and deployed, and for NATO Agencies. NCI Agency Senior Contracting Officer: Mr. Graham Hindle E-mail: mailto:graham.hindle@nr.ncia To : Distribution List Subject : NCI Agency advance notification of Market Survey APMS (Automated Personnel Management System) 1. NCI Agency intends to issue a market survey regarding the above detailed requirement. The purpose of this notification is to ask responsible authorities to anticipate the issue of this survey and actively consider potential recipients of the questionnaire in advance issue of the market survey. It is anticipated that issue of the formal market survey in February 2017. 2. A brief technical description is attached at Annex A. 3. For further information on this notice please contact the following NCI Agency contact: Mr. Graham Hindle Senior Contracting Officer Email: graham.hindle@ncia.nato.int 4. Thank you for your consideration to this request. Page 1 of 5
.r. \ AGENCY NCIAIACQ/2017/1029 FOR THE GENERAL MANAGER: Mr. Graham Hindle Senior Contracting Officer Attachment: Annex A- Summary of the Requirements Page 2 of 5
Distribution List NATO Delegations (Attn: Infrastructure Adviser): Albania Belgium Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States Belgium Ministry of Economics Affairs Embassies in Brussels (Attn: Commercial Attaché): Albania Bulgaria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia France Germany Greece Page 3 of 5
Hungary Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States NCI Agency All NATEXs NCI Agency Internal Distribution ACQ Director of Acquisition Mr P Scaruppe ACQ Deputy Director of Acquisition Ms A Szydelko ACQ Chief of Contracts Mr A Courtois Chief SSBA, Mr F. Fiore PM Mr F Bormand ACQ Principal Contracting Officer - Mr G Craver ACQ Senior Contracting Officer - Mr G Hindle Registry (for distribution) Page 4 of 5
Annex A to APMS Technical Description Annex A- Summary of the Requirements NCI Agency conducts this survey in order to identify available Commercial-Off-The- Shelf (COTS) products that fulfil the requirements, presented below, of an automated personnel and manpower management system for the NATO Command Structure, static and deployed, and for NATO Agencies. At a strategic level, the APMS will form the major part of the Personnel Functional Area Service (PERSFAS), used to manage establishments, manpower and personnel within the NATO Peacetime Establishments (PE), Crises Establishments (CE) and operational areas across most of the NATO Headquarters throughout the world on a number of internal networks. Manpower and Personnel Information will be placed in APMS, from where it can be made available for other NATO systems to access through suitably defined interfaces. Implementation of APMS will enable the establishment of common procedures, business processes and data standards, would improve accuracy, relevance and timeliness of information, and reduce the workload on staffs at the strategic HQs. At a local level the use of APMS will support day-to-day personnel management, support Manpower modelling, CE and Crises Response Operations (CRO) manpower and manning management, reduce analysis and reporting workloads and produce standard executive summaries and reports. Moreover, APMS will support: Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) structures that can be deployed as a whole or as independent parts, according to the operational need Deployable Joint Task Force (DJTF) structures Exercise structures Provision of non-ce posts in a CE structure to cover personnel serving at deployed sites who are not part of the formal structure Recording all necessary prerequisites of a person in order to be deployed (e.g. medical preparation, weapons training, theatre training etc). Page 5 of 5