SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- NAVAIR AIRSPEED DEPLOYMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DMS)
- Notice Date
- 7/14/2005
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Pax River, Building 441 21983 Bundy Road Unit 7, Patuxent River, MD, 20670
- ZIP Code
- 20670
- Solicitation Number
- N00421-05-R-0078
- Response Due
- 7/29/2005
- Archive Date
- 8/13/2005
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The purpose of this synopsis is for the Naval Air Systems Command to announce its intent to contract for a COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) Deployment Management System (DMS) software solution (NAICS code 541519: FSC code 730) on a SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE basis in support of the NAVAIR AIRSpeed Program as well as any necessary maintenance, installation, and initial training support as to provide a usable system per the Government?s requirements. This is not a formal Request for Quote (RFQ). The requirements of this commercial procurement are to provide a DMS software solution that supports Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve & Control (DMAIC) projects that will enable holistic real-time tracking and management of at least 200 Black Belts, 1500 Green Belts and their associated thousands of projects with roll-up capability to any or all desired levels. Specifically, NAVAIR is concerned with the following task requirements of the proposed DMS software solution: The Government seeks a proposed software solution that will meet the following functional requirements: (1)Manage Project Details: Ability to create new projects; Ability to manage/capture project summary information; Ability to associate projects with multiple client definable classification schemes; Ability to manage the workflow for phase gate authorizations, deliverable authorizations, and cost and benefit authorizations; Ability to manage the pipeline status (e.g. in scoping, scoped not active, active, cancelled, complete, suspended) of the project; Ability to capture/manage key Critical to Quality (CTQ)/metric information; Ability to capture metric updates at each stage in project life-cycle; Ability to quickly and easily access tool templates and guidelines on how to apply the tool; Ability to associate resources with the project to create a project team; Ability to automatically maintain a history of the key project events e.g. the addition of a team member, the authorization of a gate review, the issue of a deliverable etc.; Ability to add other documents e.g. minutes, gate presentations associated with the project to the project repository. (2) Manage Project Plan: Ability to manage project work at the project deliverable level; Ability to set/reset the financial and schedule baselines for the project; Ability to view project deliverables in Gantt Chart or similar format; Ability to see a visual indicator of overall project progress; Ability to see a visual indicator of project progress at a milestone level; Ability to have overdue tasks automatically highlighted; Ability to view and update progress/status on 'my' tasks; Ability to drive milestone and overall progress automatically from completion of phase deliverables; Ability to export to Microsoft Project. (3) Manage Project Risks: Ability to create, modify and delete project risks and issues; Ability to allocate project risks/issues to team members; Ability to view risks/issues the user is assigned to manage; Ability to define and track risk/issue minimization actions. (4) Quantify Costs/Benefits: Ability to define a hierarchy of cost/benefit categories (e.g. ability to track benefits to multiple competencies and customers); Ability to define actual/forecast project expenditures (project specific investments); Ability to establish a budget for project expenditures; Ability to define actual/forecast savings (financial benefits) by cost element (e.g. labor and non-labor items of expense); Ability to attach justification to support expenditure/benefit validation/approval; Ability to electronically validate and approve benefit claims; Ability to track benefits by type (e.g. type 1 and type 2); Ability to track benefits by fiscal year, appropriation and budget line item; Ability to track manpower savings by type (CSS, Military, Government), by workyear and by fiscal year. (5) Report on Project Progress: Ability to add status updates/project highlights to the project on a periodic basis; Ability to generate project gate review summary/project status report; Ability to view/filter and print the full project plan; Ability to report forecast vs. actual vs. budget costs/benefits at a project summary level (both for capital employed and profit related benefits); Ability to export project information to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. (6) Manage Project Deliverables: Ability to capture/update project specific deliverables (including attaching external documents/files); Ability to issue and submit project deliverables for electronic validation and approval. (7) Collaborate with Other Team & Community Members: Ability to create journal entries which team members can use to quickly communicate project status and collaborate on project activities; Ability to create a repository for capturing, for example, FAQs, best practices, and other deployment specific reference material. (8) Manage Information Overload: Ability to see only the projects with which the user is currently associated (user projects); Ability to see only the training requests which are relevant to the user (user requests); Ability to be automatically notified on escalation of project traffic light status; Ability to be automatically notified on pending deliverable due dates; Ability to manage personal information and contact information. (9) Manage Project Progress: Ability to see a visual indicator of overall project progress; Ability to auto-escalate project 'traffic light status' - missed dates; Ability to have overdue tasks automatically highlighted. (10) Remote Coaching: Ability to view resources allocated to a project; Ability to define and track risk minimization actions; Ability to access project information from any location using only a web browser; Ability to capture/date project specific deliverables; Ability to share documents with other on-line users; Ability to post best practice, frequently asked questions and useful tools. (11) Accelerate Benefit Delivery: Ability to be auto-notified by e-mail of waiting authorizations; Ability to view costs/benefits and deliverables assigned to me on-line; Ability to authorize costs/benefits and deliverables on-line. (12) Manage Project: Ability to create and modify multiple business methodologies; Ability to create and modify project deliverable templates and guidance notes; Ability to define organizational hierarchy of business units; Ability to define a hierarchy of projects and sub-projects; Ability to view critical performance measures (at any level); Ability to drill down through hierarchy and view project details. (13) Enforce Project Policies: Ability to define what data is mandatory for status changes; Ability to define which deliverables are mandatory at each gate; Ability to define which roles can authorize phase gates; Ability to define at which gates forecast costs/benefits required. (14) Manage Costs & Benefits: Ability to define what data is mandatory for status changes; Ability to define which roles can authorize phase gates; Ability to define at which gates forecast costs/benefits required. (15) Report on Project: Ability to print a full project report; Ability to filter and sort projects by business unit, pipeline status, methodology and process; Ability to report project performance at any level; Ability to report budget, forecast and actual benefits at any level. (16) People Management: Ability to capture/manage/import personal details; Ability to define catalog of training courses; Ability to view available training courses; Ability to capture/manage details of training received; Ability to define a competency/skill model; Ability to capture competency/skill assessments; Ability to define certification levels and requirements; Ability to update/view and report on individual certification levels; Ability to automatically build experience from assignments; Ability to assign, schedule and report on resource utilization. (17) Knowledge Management: Ability to create library of deliverables (template and guidelines); Ability to share documents with other on-line users; Ability to perform global searches on project meta-data and details; Ability to create and use project and non-project discussion groups. (18) Monitor Performance: Ability to create and display multiple graphical executive dashboard reports; Ability to generate real-time reporting on projected profit and capital employed benefits; Ability to generate real-time reports on belt certifications and project volumes by pipeline status; Ability to create ad-hoc, real time report groups of practitioner project history; Ability to create ad-hoc, real time report groups of project or personnel financial contributions; Ability to report real-time on budget, forecast and actual variances; Ability to report real-time analysis of resource utilization. NAVAIR desires to implement the Deployment Management System as quickly as possible. In order to meet that goal, proposed software solutions must already be in compliance with DoD, DON and NAVAIR information technology and security standards. This requires that: (1) Proposed solution must be accessible as web services or portlets compatible with NAVAIR's Plumtree software based corporate portal; (2) Proposed solution must support installation at one central server location; (3) Proposed solution must be accessible from any location, on either NMCI or non-NMCI client machines, using only a web browser; (4) Proposed solutions must be compatible with existing NAVAIR server hardware and software, including server operating systems, application server software, web server software and database software; (5) Contractor will be responsible for installing and configuring the software to meet the technical and policy requirements of this section, as well as the functional requirements included in it's proposal; (6) Proposed solution should include material to allow users to become productive without formal training, at a minimum context sensitive and searchable online help. It is the Government?s intent to award a single Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to the offeror who provides the best overall value to the Government. It is anticipated that the final request for quotes (N00421-05-R-0078) will be available through the NAVAIR solicitation homepage, http://www.navair.navy.mil, approximately 29 July 2005. Paper copies of the solicitation will not be mailed. All responses to this synopsis must be sent via email and must include the following information: (1) Company Name; (2) Company Address; (3) Company Business Size; (4) Point of Contact (POC) Name, telephone number, fax number, and email address. Internet responses without this information will not be accepted. Phone and fax requests for a copy of the solicitation will not be accepted. Contract Specialist: Ann Clements (301) 757-8953 Contracting Officer: Alfred W. Hensler, III Solicitation Number: N00421-05-R-0078
- Place of Performance
- Address: NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND HQ, PATUXENT RIVER, MD
- Zip Code: 20670
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20670
- Record
- SN00847573-W 20050716/050714212613 (fbodaily.com)
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