SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- 2007-S-023 EXCHANGE 2003 SUPPORT SERVICES
- Notice Date
- 1/19/2007
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- United States Senate, Office of the Sergeant at Arms, Finance Division, United States Senate, Washington, DC, 20510-7207, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 2007-S-023
- Response Due
- 2/8/2007
- Archive Date
- 2/9/2007
- Description
- DESC: MARKET SURVEY AND BIDDERS LIST DEVELOPMENT - SOURCES SOUGHT REQUEST FOR EXCHANGE 2003 SUPPORT SERVICES. The purpose of this sources sought synopsis is to gain knowledge of potential qualified industry sources for acquisition and service providers for operational support of the U. S. Senate?s Windows 2003/Exchange 2003/Blackberry Enterprise Server email infrastructure. All requirements listed below are mandatory unless otherwise noted. This Sources Sought Notice (SSN) is not a request for proposal and in no way obligates the Senate in an award of a contract. This sources sought synopsis contains the currently available information. This information is subject to change at any time. Requirements are stated in terms of minimum capabilities and characteristics required by the Senate. Environment Description: The Senate?s Active Directory and Messaging Architecture (ADMA) environment is based on Windows Server 2003 and the standard messaging platform of Exchange 2003 Server. The Senate environment consists of approximately 140 separate entities that are comprised of Member offices, Committees, Leadership offices, and support organizations. The ADMA design consists of three deployment options (enterprise forest, office forest, and hybrid) and each of the 140 entities has selected one of those deployment options. Resources for offices in the Enterprise forest are provided in a single domain, separated by organizational units and all servers physically reside in central locations and are administered by the SAA. Resources for Office forests physically reside in the Member?s Washington, DC office and are administered by the office Systems Administrator. Office forest with Enterprise Messaging (Hybrid) includes partial deployment and participation in both of the ADMA forest types with some servers residing in offices, but messaging being administered in a central location. Work will be performed in the Senate Computer Room or other designated space on the 6th floor of the Postal Square Building. The Contractor may also be requested to provide services at an Alternate Computing Facility (ACF) in the event of a disaster or as deemed necessary by the COTR. The Contractor must be able to staff, manage and perform the following: The Contractor shall furnish all supervision, labor, supplies, and materials necessary to provide Enterprise Central Services, Lab management, and ADMA management, design, operation, maintenance, enhancement, production control, and configuration management support. Contractor responsibilities will include: 1. Configuring, testing, and implementing all software for Enterprise Central Services (CS) operations. 2. Periodic evaluation, testing and implementation of hotfixes and new software releases. 3. Building of servers to support the ADMA centralized infrastructure. 4. Strict change control processes and documentation. 5. Research, diagnosis, and recommended solutions for operational Active Directory, messaging and integrated value-add service issues. 6. Customer service and help desk support for Active Directory and messaging infrastructure problems. 7. Documentation and preparation of design, operations and technical procedures manuals. 8. Engineering of new messaging solutions and evaluation of products to work in conjunction with the network operating system and messaging software. 9. Project management for the overall contractor presence at the US Senate. 10. Configuration and maintenance of the staging lab. 11. Research and engineering of migration of the infrastructure to Exchange 2007 and next release of server operating system. 12. Configuration and maintenance of Microsoft Operations Manager for the ADMA centralized infrastructure. The above support will be supplied on a level-of-effort basis. The Senate projects that on an annual basis, a nine (9) man-year level-of-effort is the maximum that will be required to accomplish requirements 1-12. REQUIREMENTS: The Senate is seeking vendors who can meet its needs using commercial practices performing under fully burdened fixed labor hourly-rates (inclusive of travel, material and ODCs) to perform services on a time and materials basis. The Offerors must be located no more than 50 miles driving distance to the United States Capitol Building. In responding to this SSN, state your qualifications to perform each of the requirements listed above. Your response to each requirement must include paragraph numbering identifiable to requirements listed above. In addition, submissions must include: a) past performance experience/information for a minimum of three contracts of similar scale, less than two (2) years old that involve use of capabilities and products relevant to those necessary for the Senate=s requirements, including contract number, customer name and address, and brief synopsis of work performed relevant to requirements 1-12 listed above, b) description of capabilities to support the Senate?s ability to continue essential functions under a business continuity plan which is modeled on Federal Preparedness Circular ? 65, Federal Executive Branch Continuity of Operations (FPC-65), dated June 15, 2004 <http://www.fema.gov/txt/library/fpc65_0604.txt>, and c) organizational information including your Dun and Bradstreet number and point of contact with telephone, fax and e-mail address. After receipt and review of the responses to this SSN, the SAA intends to issue a solicitation. The information contained in this notice will be the only information provided by the Senate during the Sources Sought process. All qualified sources should respond to this Market Survey - Sources Sought by submitting an information package in accordance with the instructions provided. Vendors responding to this notice and deemed qualified by the SAA may be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation. Only firms deemed qualified will be permitted to submit proposals. If suitable responses are received from qualified sources, the SAA anticipates release of a solicitation during the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2007. Neither the SAA nor the Senate will be responsible for any costs for the preparation of responses to this request. INSTRUCTIONS: Responses to this Market Survey-Sources Sought request are due to the POC no later than February 8, 2007, at Noon EST and shall be submitted electronically via email only to the attention of Jill T. Johnson at acquisitions@saa.senate.gov. The subject line of the email message shall be: SSN 2007-S-023 EXCHANGE 2003 SUPPORT SERVICES. No other method of transmittal will be accepted. The response shall not exceed twenty-five (25) pages. Unnecessarily elaborate submissions are discouraged. Pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor?s information. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. THIS NOTICE CONSTITUTES THE ENTIRE SOURCES SOUGHT NOTICE AND IS THE ONLY INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE SAA OR SENATE. ANY REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT BE HONORED.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
- Zip Code: 20510-7207
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20510-7207
- Record
- SN01215811-W 20070121/070119230158 (fbodaily.com)
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