SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- NAWebpage Translation Services
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Acquisition Management Division (VA), 1100 Wilson Boulevard Room 2133, Arlington, VA, 22209-3939
- ZIP Code
- 22209-3939
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-MSHA05-08
- Response Due
- 5/18/2005
- Archive Date
- 6/2/2005
- Point of Contact
- Robert Beaty, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 693-9836, Fax (202) 693-9826, - Robert Beaty, Contracting Officer, Phone (202) 693-9836, Fax (202) 693-9826,
- E-Mail Address
-
beaty.robert@dol.gov, beaty.robert@dol.gov
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation for this requirement. This is the Request for Proposals. No other solicitation will be issued. This is a resolicitation of services initially advertised as solicitation MSHA05-07.. The provisions and clauses incorporated into this document are those in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-03. The period of performance for this award shall be for one base year with four option periods of one year each. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is required to address the needs of the Spanish speaking public within the mining community by translating the MSHA web site into Spanish. To accomplish this requirement, MSHA is seeking a contractor to provide these services. This requirement is set aside for small businesses The NAICS code for this requirement is 519190 and the small business size standard is $21 million. In order to be responsive to the MSHA requirement the translation services must meet all of the following requirements. This is a combined notice and solicitation for commercial items. 1. The required translation services shall be a machine translation of all MSHA HTML based Internet web pages located at www.msha.gov and shall include Active Server pages (.asp, .aspx). 2. The translation is provided as a service from the vendor?s website, not MSHA?s. 3. The translated pages are to appear as a new page in a separate window. 4. Translation is to be done in real time (i.e., takes the page as it currently exists on the MSHA website and translates it on the fly) not a static translation that becomes out of date when the page?s contents change. 5. The translated pages shall retain all HTML code (e.g. links to other pages still work) and when you go to other pages, they are translated as well (within the MSHA website). This includes the translation of all <ALT> tags used in defining pictures. 6. The translation service must provide a method for the creation of dictionaries of terms that MSAH is able to maintain in an easy method. This means full access to all dictionaries for updating. These dictionaries shall be used to make the machine translations more exact. 7. The service must provide the ability to exclude certain words and phrases (formal names, etc.) from translation. 8. The service must be able to use existing technical dictionaries containing specialized mining terminology that MSHA has developed over the past several years. 9. The translation service shall be at a fixed price. 10. The translation service must work only on pages served up from www.msha.gov 11. The translation service must provide access to statistics, such as the number of pages translated, by day, month, and by year. The service must also report through log files, or other means, which pages are being translated. 12. The vendor shall ensure that a representative that is familiar with the MSHA requirements is available to answer questions and resolve any problems encountered with the translations. 13. Offerors must offer an existing, off the shelf, service. This requirement does not anticipate nor does it desire any developmental systems. The provisions at FAR 52-212-2 Evaluation ? Commercial Items applies to this solicitation. The specific evaluation factors to be included in paragraph (a) of that provision are : Translation speed (turnaround time) Ease of creation and update of dictionaries Ease of incorporation of existing MSHA dictionaries Type of usage statistics available and the ease of access to them. Current usage of the proposed service. Past Performance Ease of use of the service by users of the MSHA website. Formats supported by the system. The following FAR provisions apply to this solicitation: 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors?Commercial, 52.212-2, Evaluation?Commercial Items, (see above) 52.212-3, Offeror Representations and Certifications?Commercial Items. The offeror is required to submit a completed copy of these provisions with their offer. 52.212-4, Contract Terms and Conditions?Commercial Items 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions Required To Implement Statutes or Executive Orders?Commercial Items Interested parties should submit a proposal that specifically addresses each of the above requirements to the below address no later than 3:00 PM, EST, April 1, 2005. Proposals may be either in electronic format or hard copy. MSHA anticipates awarding a fixed price contract for a period of one base year with four (4) option periods of one (1) year each. Pricing proposals must indicate a flat annual rate for the service for each of the years. Proposals that price the translation by any method other than a flat annual rate will be considered non responsive and will receive no further consideration. Vendors may propose tiered pricing based upon differing daily/annual translation rates. Proposals must also include information regarding updates. Proposals will be evaluated on the ease of use by users of the MSHA website, turnaround time for translations, supported document formats. Questions related to this requirement, must be forwarded to by email, no later than 3:00 pm Friday, March 18, 2005 to: beaty.robert@dol.gov. Proposals may be forwarded either in hard copy or electronically to Robert Beaty, Contracting Officer, Mine Safety and Health Administration, 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209-3939. The email address is beaty.robert@dol.gov.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
- Zip Code: 22209-3939
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 22209-3939
- Record
- SN00799782-W 20050505/050503211802 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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