US Fish & Wildlife - Why a SCIF Room

This is interesting:

General Information

Document Type: Presolicitation Notice
Solicitation Number: 973107Q036
Posted Date: Jul 24, 2007
Original Response Date: Aug 15, 2007
Current Response Date: Aug 15, 2007
Original Archive Date: Jul 23, 2008
Current Archive Date: Jul 23, 2008
Classification Code: Z -- Maintenance, repair, and alteration of real property
Set Aside: Total Small Business

Contracting Office Address

National Conservation Training Center-Division of Facility Operations U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 698 Conservation Way Shepherdstown WV 25443

Description

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV intends to convert a room at the facility into a SCIF meeting space. Potential Vendors are required to provide a design and cost estimate based on information provided with the solicitation and the scheduled walk through meeting on August 8, 2007 at 10:00am. The room upon completion will meet all of the required National Security Agency SCIF standards.

For those that do not know what a SCIF room is, the acronym stands for:

Secure Compartmented Information Facility

Further, why only two weeks notice for the pre-solicitation and bid?

WP