SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Community Website for FHWA Truck Size and Weight
- Notice Date
- 7/8/2003
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Acquisition Management, HAAM, Room 4410 400 7th Street, S.W., Washington, DC, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTFH61-03-R-00122
- Response Due
- 9/4/2003
- Archive Date
- 3/31/2004
- Point of Contact
- James Mowery, Contract Specialist, Phone (202) 366-4244, Fax (202) 366-3705, - Robert Robel, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 366-4227, Fax (202) 366-3705,
- E-Mail Address
-
james.mowery@fhwa.dot.gov, bob.robel@fhwa.dot.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ACCEPT TELEPHONED, E-MAILED, LETTER-WRITTEN, OR FAXED REQUESTS FOR THE SOLICITATION (RFP) FOR THIS PROCUREMENT. Instead, all prospective offerors must retrieve the solicitation from this FedBizOpps web site, when the solicitation is hereafter published. This is a SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE procurement. There is no incumbent contractor who is eligible to propose on this procurement. Under this procurement, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plans to award a CONTRACT under which the contractor will provide assistance to develop a community website for the FHWA?s Truck Size & Weight Program activities. It is anticipated that the website will AUTOMATE the entire process by which: (a) states certify that they are complying with STATE laws relating to the size and weight of trucks; and (b) the FHWA certifies that states are complying with FEDERAL requirements. The contractor will: provide for website user authentication and authorization via user IDs and passwords; create a reference library that includes documents associated with the truck size and weight program; create on-going opinion polls to gather stakeholder information and provide feedback to stakeholders; create a website discussion room on various topics of interest to stakeholders; track visitors to the website, by member name, and provide information on recent visitors to new visitors; create and maintain a What?s New section in the website; create and maintain a Contributions section in the website; create a Noteboard tool for announcements and informal discussion; create a Lists tool and Calendars in the website; create an Images sharing tool, a Files tool, a Chat tool, a Community Messenger tool, a Member List tool, an Invite Others tool, a Feedback tool, and a Preferences tool; create a Membership Groups and Permissions feature, a Polling feature, a New or Unread Indicator feature, a User Interface feature, a Community Explorer tool, a Full Text Search feature, a Related Content feature, an Optional Community Previewing feature, a Full Content Moderation tool, an Improved Community Affiliation feature; ensure that adequate Physical Security is provided for the website?s hosting facility; provide for a multi-tier System Architecture that ensures that database, file and application servers are never communicating directly with end-users; create Hardware Redundancy by utilizing multiple servers for the website; create Data Backup and Recovery features; provide for Secure Communications during all communications with the Community website; provide for Data Storage; determine, with the FHWA, which states may be selected as pilot states; manage access to the website by all authorized users; continue to support the website for three years after its development has been completed; provide training manuals for access to and use of the website; provide hands-on training to states and to the U. S. Department of Transportation, upon request; scan into the system each state?s Certification and State Enforcement Plans for the past three years; and scan letters, regulatory guidance, interpretation and other documents the FHWA deems relevant to the website. To be competitive, an offeror?s proposal will probably need to: (a) demonstrate that the offeror possesses in-depth technical experience in the design, implementation, management and support of a secure community website; (b) demonstrate that the offeror possesses competence in technical writing with special emphasis on the preparation of requirements and documentation including software and user manuals; (c) demonstrate that the offeror possesses knowledge of the FHWA?s Size & Weight regulatory requirements and how they can be enforced through the operation of the website. THE DUE DATE FOR THE FHWA?S RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS, AS PUBLISHED IN THIS SYNOPSIS, IS ONLY AN ESTIMATED DUE DATE. THE ACTUAL DUE DATE FOR THE FHWA?S RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS WILL BE STATED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE SOLICITATION (RFP) HEREAFTER PUBLISHED. The FHWA?s best current ESTIMATE is that the solicitation MIGHT be published in this FedBizOpps web site on or about July 31, 2003. Any prospective offeror who retrieves the solicitation must be sure to frequently RE-CHECK FedBizOpps for any AMENDMENTS to the solicitation. Re-checking for such amendments is IMPERATIVE, because amendments usually contain crucial information.
- Record
- SN00366100-W 20030710/030708213556 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
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