SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Business Continuity Plan Software Licences and Services
- Notice Date
- 9/8/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 519190
— All Other Information Services
- Contracting Office
- Peace Corps, Office Of Acquisitions And Contract Management, OACM, 1111 20th Street, N.W., Room 4413, Washington, DC, 20526
- ZIP Code
- 20526
- Solicitation Number
- PC-06-Q-019
- Response Due
- 9/15/2006
- Archive Date
- 9/16/2006
- Description
- This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. The closing date and time for receipt of proposals is Friday, September 15, 2006 at 2:00PM ET (local time), proposals should be submitted electronically to rnelson2@peacecorps.gov, 1111 20th Street; Room 4441; Washington, DC 20526; Attn: Rodney Nelson, Contracting Specialist, (202) 692-1781. The deadline for submitting vendor questions is Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 2:00PM ET (local time). All questions should be submitted electronically to Rodney Nelson at rnelson2@peacecorps.gov by this deadline. The NAICS Code is 519190, All Other Information Services. The solicitation number is PC-06-Q-019 and is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The Peace Corps intends to award a firm fixed price contract for a base period of one year effective from the date of award, with four option periods of one year. REQUIREMENT: The Peace Corps seeks a vendor to provide a hosted, web-based product that Peace Corps personnel will use to develop, implement, test and maintain business continuity plans for our facilities throughout North America. Peace Corps personnel will use a business continuity of operations planning tool to reduce the time and effort required to implement and maintain the IT disaster recovery and business continuity planning programs. The product will conform to the following needs: 1) Ease of use - Ease of installation (No DBA assistance and little technical effort), ease of administration, and ease of end user effort. Product should have hosting services available. 2) Fully Web Enabled ? Product makes all functions available through the browser including database design, customer reporting, and security and there are NO client installations required. 3) Plan Output ? Provides unparalleled power and flexibility to support logical recovery flow, intermixing easy to user documents, diagrams, and resource reports. 4) Security ? Product should use 128-bit SSL technology for encryption and have user-level audit abilities. 5) Custom Report Writer ? Should organize and report the specific information need during a disaster without going to an outside report writer. 6) Proven Enterprise Technology ? Provide an integrated database for enterprise requirements that allows complete customized tables and fields. This design should be scalable and adaptable to planning requirements. Use current best practices for Business Continuity Management (BCM), and Project Management. 7) Built-In knowledge base ? Product should provide sample recovery plans, restoration procedures, and project management tools to help develop, test, and maintain IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. 8) Implementation / Training ? Provide customized on-site training, public training, methodology assistance, and conversion assistance to ensure a smooth implementation process. 9) Integrated Business Impact Analysis ? Provides the ability to identify and quantify risks and exposures that might contribute to business or information systems failures integrated into the product. 10) Integrated Alert and Notification ? Provide alert and notification capability that ties into plans and procedure created using the product. Notification module should be able to contact personnel with multiple communications methods. 11) Practical Architecture ? Product structure should be simple and easy to understand. REJECTION OF WORKMANSHIP: Inferior and unsatisfactory workmanship as determined by the Peace Corps COTR shall be rejected and reported to the contractor who shall correct the deficiency, at no additional cost to the Peace Corps, within 1 week following receipt of written notice of rejection. TESTING: Testing and acceptance of the product shall be performed by the Peace Corps Offices of the Chief Information Officer. SCHEDULE: Quotations shall include a delivery/implementation schedule based on the following milestones: 09/30/06, Kickoff Meeting; 10/13/06, Access to Hosted Tool; 10/16/2006, Commence Training; 10/25/06, Product Implementation Concluded. MATERIALS PROVIDED BY PEACE CORPS: N/A. COST/CONTRACT: The contractor shall be paid, upon submission of proper vouchers, and acceptance of deliverables, the amounts specified in the accepted quotation, as full consideration for all effort provided herein. Payment will be based on an initial licensing agreement fee, and a monthly maintenance fee for a total of ten concurrent users. The vendor may not transfer this contract to another provider without prior Peace Corps consent. DELIVERABLES FOR THIS RFQ: The delivery address for all deliverables is: Peace Corps, 1111 20th Street; Washington, DC 20526. This solicitation document incorporates provisions and clauses in effect through Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-12. 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors-Commercial Items applies to this acquisition. Offerors shall submit two separate proposals: one technical and one cost. The technical proposal shall be limited to ten (10) pages. EVALUATION FACTORS FOR AWARD: 52.212-2 Evaluation-Commercial Items, para. (a) is filled in as follows: ?The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price, and other factors considered. The following factors, listed in descending order or importance, shall be used to evaluate offers: 1) Prior relevant experience: Provide list of federal clients similar in size and scope to the Peace Corps currently using continuity of operations planning software. Provide at least four (4) agencies or companies which can be contacted for past performances. This should include the agency or company name, contact person, phone number and brief description of the effort.); 2) Technical approach: clearly define how the proposed product meets each of the requirements shown in the requirement section of this notice; 3) Price: The offerors shall include in their quotations to the Peace Corps fixed prices as follows: Software Licensing and Services modules: $________ 10 Concurrent Users Plans; $________ 10 Concurrent Users Impacts and Profiles (BIA); $_________ 10 Concurrent Users Notifications, and Monthly Maintenance: $________ (per month) 10 Concurrent Users Plans; $________ (per month) 10 Concurrent Users Impacts and Profiles; $________ (per month) 10 Concurrent Users Notifications. Costs may be further broken down into sub-components for payment purposes if preferable. All evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are significantly more important than cost or price. Offerors must include a completed copy of 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications-Commercial Items with their offer. 52.212-4 Contract Terms and Conditions-Commercial Items and 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes of Executive Orders-Commercial Items apply to this acquisition. The Contracting Officer will not accept telephone calls regarding this solicitation.
- Place of Performance
- Address: 1111 20th Street, NW, Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20526
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20526
- Record
- SN01138413-W 20060910/060908221959 (fbodaily.com)
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