MODIFICATION
R -- COTS Property Management System
- Notice Date
- 4/15/2005
- Notice Type
- Modification
- NAICS
- 334611
— Software Reproducing
- Contracting Office
- National Science Foundation, Division of Contracts & Complex Agreements, DCCA, 4201 Wilson Boulevard Room 475, Arlington, VA, 22230
- ZIP Code
- 22230
- Solicitation Number
- RFQ-DCCA-050053
- Response Due
- 4/25/2005
- Point of Contact
- Marion Jones, Contract Administrator, Phone (703) 292-5398, Fax (703) 292-9140/9141, - Patricia Williams, Deputy Chief, Contracts Branch, Phone (703) 292-4596, Fax (703) 292-9140/9141,
- E-Mail Address
-
mjones@nsf.gov, pswillia@nsf.gov
- Description
- All references to proposal due dates are changed to May 5, 2005, 3:30 PM. RE: Questions & Answers - 1. What is your current property management system? The NSF Property Tracking System is a client server application developed in-house with PowerBuilder, a Sybase product. 2. Will the existing data need to be transferred into the new system? If so, what format will that data be received? Existing data would need to be transferred. NSF's system integrators will be able to convert this data in accordance with the vendor's specifications. 3. Of the 250 users defined in the solicitation, please define how many users will require full time access to the system, how many will require frequent part-time access, etc. Full-time access 100 Frequent access 150 4. Please define the types of assets to be managed by the system, i.e., personal assets (computer equipment, etc.) or fixed assets (lab equipment, etc.) Personal assets Real property (land, buildings) Fixed assets 5. PROP5 - Can you elaborate on NSF’s current Financial Accounting System and the ability to interface with other systems? What level of integration is NSF expecting? Is the data getting pulled or pushed from our technology? The system shall provide support for a service oriented architecture (SOA) and should be easily integrated with current/new systems. The system shall integrate with NSF’s Financial Accounting System (FAS) to deliver updated property information. The system shall interoperate and communicate with NSF's current/new Procurement Management systems. NSF’s Financial Accounting System (FAS) is a custom-developed system used for all accounting within NSF. It currently provides remote Java APIs and Sybase Stored Procedures as integration options. A web service interface could be developed to support communication with a SOA-enabled property management solution. NSF expects the property management system to be able to push financial information to FAS for at least asset depreciation, asset addition, transfer, and asset retirement. This data would include the owning NSF organization unit, asset value, and NSF accounting codes to track the asset type and vendor information. The Property Management system must also interface with NSF’s Procurement system. Selection of a new system is underway so the interface options are not yet defined. Similar interface requirements also apply to that tool selection. The need to push/pull data from FAS and Procurement will also be dependent on the approach used to synchronize NSF accounting codes, organizations, vendors, and similar information between the three systems. 6. PROP13 - Is NSF currently utilizing RFID technology? If so, please explain the environment, i.e., tag and integrator technology. In addition please describe the amount of and type of data stored or to be stored on the RFID tags. No RFID currently in use. 7. PROP13 - Is NSF currently utilizing barcode technology? If so, please explain the environment, i.e., barcode and integrator technology. In addition please describe the amount of and type of data used. Pre-printed barcode labels are used. Barcode scanners can be used as needed for inventory purposes. In previous inventories barcode reader technology was provided by contractor service. 8. TECH1 - What versions of the Sun Solaris will be supported? Will this system be on new or existing infrastructure? If existing, please describe your current architecture. NSF hosts most of its business application on Sun Solaris, and strongly prefers to continue this. The infrastructure consists clusters of Sun v440 and v240 machines currently running Solaris 9, as well as Sun Java Enterprise System for application server, directory, portal, web server, etc. 9. TECH19 - Can you provide reference documentation regarding NSF Security Guidelines and Policies? Please see attached excerpt from NSF' s IT operatin NOTE: THIS NOTICE MAY HAVE POSTED ON WWW.FEDBIZOPPS.GOV ON THE DATE INDICATED IN THE NOTICE ITSELF (15-APR-2005). IT ACTUALLY APPEARED OR REAPPEARED ON THE FEDBIZOPPS SYSTEM ON 02-MAY-2005, BUT REAPPEARED IN THE FTP FEED FOR THIS POSTING DATE. PLEASE CONTACT fbo.support@gsa.gov REGARDING THIS ISSUE.
- Web Link
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Link to FedBizOpps document.
(http://www.eps.gov/spg/NSF/DCCA/CPO/RFQ-DCCA-050053/listing.html)
- Record
- SN00799586-F 20050504/050502212908 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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