SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Appeals Board E-Filing System
- Notice Date
- 4/26/2006
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, Parklawn Building Room 5-101 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD, 20857
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- SS06EIOS0600065
- Response Due
- 5/11/2006
- Archive Date
- 5/26/2006
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP), INVITATION FOR BID (IFB), REQUEST FOR QUOTES (RFQ), REQUEST FOR APPLICATION (RFA) OR AN ANNOUNCEMNT OF A SOLICITATION AND DOES NOT ASSUME THE GOVERNMENT WILL AWARD A CONTRACT OR PROCEED WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE SOLICITATIONS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THIS NOTICE IS ONLY FOR MARKET RESEARCH PURPOSES. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Secretary, Departmental Appeals Board is seeking capabilities statements from organizations with the core competency to provide electronic case filing and management systems. The NAICS Code is 541512 and the size standard is $21.0 M. Federal and state courts and administrative agencies nationwide are in the midst of implementing electronic case filing and management systems (e-file systems) that permit litigants to file pleadings, briefs, and other case records with the courts and agencies via the Internet. The Departmental Appeals Board (DAB), including its Appellate Division (the Board) and Civil Remedies Division (CRD), have jurisdiction to decide many types of cases that arise under the Social Security Act and other federal statutes. The Board provides de novo review of certain types of final decisions of HHS operating components and appellate review of certain types of administrative law judge (ALJ) decisions, which may be appealed by either party. Approximately 5600 to 9000 documents are filed with the Board and CRD annually. Approximately 1100 to 1400 orders, rulings, or decisions are issued annually by the Board and the ALJs. The DAB recognizes that it is desirable and important to implement an e-file system to ensure that the parties who appear in litigation before the Board and ALJs receive the benefits such a system provide including better access and reduction of the time associated with adjudication of cases. The e-system anticipated will be a publically accessible web-based process and/or system that will: (1) allow parties to electronically file (e-File) documents at the DAB; (2) allow parties to electronically serve (e-Service) copies of filed documents upon other parties to the same case; and (3) allow the Board and ALJs to electronically issue (e-Issuance) rulings, orders, decisions. Possible deliverables include: (1) a publically accessible web portal through which: (a) non-federal parties may request a hearing by an ALJ or parties may request review by the Board; and (b) parties may file with the CRD or Board, pleadings, briefs, responses, or similar documents including attachments; (2) a publically accessible web portal through which parties may effect service upon other parties to the same action; (3) a publically accessible web portal through which the ALJs and Board may issue rulings, orders, and decisions to all parties to a case; and (4) web-based training for using the system available for federal and non-federal parties and DAB staff, in the form of a tutorial and help screens and on-site training for DAB staff in Washington, D.C. The capability statement should address the ability to accomplish all the following requirements: (1) a publicly accessible web portal, that is accessible 24/7/365 except for reasonable periods for maintenance (limited to 0300 through 0600 EST) with a toll free number staffed by the Contractor that parties may call for assistance. (2) web portal with an Aopen platform@ hosted on secure, high-speed, managed internet server with at least one redundant system to ensure continuity of operations at a location remote from the Contractor=s primary work-site; (3) web portal must be accessible from any computer with internet connectivity that uses any publicly available operating system and must be able to accept a variety of common formats, including Adobe Portable Document Format, WordPerfect, Word and other Microsoft formats, or ASCII. (4) The Contractor will provide such software as is necessary to ensure that DAB staff can: receive, review, accept, or reject requests for hearing or appeal received through the web portal and documents submitted for filing through the web portal; (5) Electronic transmission of documents to the DAB will be accomplished in no more than 4 hours after receipt through the web portal; and parties will be notified of the availability of documents via link or retransmission of documents no more than 4 hours after receipt through the web portal. (6) The DAB e-System will be searchable by case number, document type, party, date of filing, and will allow full-text searches within all documents with the same case number. The anticipated contract will be issued at no cost to the Government. Contractor performance will be financed by fees collected from site users by the Contractor. Interested contractors possessing ALL of the required capabilities to meet the above requirement should submit a cover letter along with a capability statement not to exceed 10 pages demonstrating the ability to perform ALL aspects of the effort described therein. Responses must include the following: name and address of the firm, named central point of contact along with email address; DUNS number; any applicable commercial price list(s); size of business, including average annual revenues for the past 3 years and number of employees; ownership; whether they are a large, small, small-disadvantaged, 8(a) HUBZone, woman-owned, historically black college or university and/or minority service institute, number of years in business; affiliate information: parent company, joint venture partners, potential teaming partners; list of customers covering the past five years; and additional documentation such as company literature and brochures. If this additional documentation supports the required capabilities it is incumbent to address this reference in the cover letter or other area of the capability statement and indicate specifically how it addresses the capabilities sought. A mere referenced website is unacceptable for purposes of this announcement and will not be considered or reviewed. Capability statements must be submitted via email to pscacquisitions@psc.gov, to the attention of Jonathan Hamlet and referencing this announcement number. No hand-delivered or by-mail copies shall be accepted under any circumstances. Responses are due no later than 12:00 PM Eastern Time, May 11, 2006.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 330 Independence Ave. SW, Room G-644, Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20201
- Country: USA
- Zip Code: 20201
- Record
- SN01035440-W 20060428/060426220544 (fbodaily.com)
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