SOLICITATION NOTICE
70 -- Development & Technical support
- Notice Date
- 3/6/2007
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 518210
— Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Administration, 6011 Executive Blvd, Rm 538, Rockville, MD, 20892-7663, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 263-2007-Q-GZ-0111
- Response Due
- 3/13/2007
- Description
- This is a request for a quotation under the Commercial Test Program as authorized under FAR 13.5. The period of performance shall be for one twelve (12) month period, with options to renew for four (4) successive twelve (12) month periods. OFM seeks developer and project management resources for the ongoing development and support of the SREAPRS. Requirements will continue to be defined by the Program Analyst and the Chief of the Government Accounting Branch, OD, OFM, NIH. Objective is to have a completed and operational system which will be maintained and supported by the OFM Systems group. Contractor Requirements. The contractor is required to have the following expertise: 1.1 An integral knowledge of the existing SREA software system and related OFM processes. The contractor will need to constantly interact with SREAPRS system users and stakeholders to discern business needs, formulate optimal solutions, and implement them. This requires a thorough understanding of all current functionality and procedures, as well as the ability to take conceptual goals and ultimately put them into practice in a manner that best suits OFM?s needs. The Contractor shall provide support for several initiatives to the SREA software system for several different areas which include OFM, CSR and the Scientific Review Administrative (SRA) Offices at NIH. Additional business process tasks outside of OFM shall be assigned to the Contractor at the direction of the Chief, of Government Accounting Branch, OFM/OD. This requirement is of primary importance to ensure ongoing success of the effort. 1.2 Senior web development and database administration expertise (at least seven years of experience developing web applications and databases that interface with them). Specifically, senior-level expertise in developing ASP.NET web applications that interface with SQL Server is required, as well as thorough expertise in designing and implementing complex SQL Server database structures. Development staff must have total self-sufficiency to program and support all functional aspects of the SREAPRS system. 1.3 A core understanding of processing electronic payments through various government channels and significant experience with OFM?s financial systems (at least five years). Development staff must also have the capability to support all aspects of the SREAPRS system?s data interface and transmission process with all relevant NIH- and government-interfacing systems. 1.4 Extensive senior project management experience with IT efforts (at least ten years), with a focus on web applications. The contractor is required to complete the following tasks: For Base year: 2.1 Determine and develop the best solutions for current requirements defined by OFM to complete the core functionality of the SREAPRS application. These requirements include continued automation and fool-proofing of the CCR import function, file exports and uploads to the Department of Treasury?s Secure Payment System (SPS), NIH?s Central Accounting System (CAS), the Center for Information Technology (CIT), DUNS number entry, credits importing, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1099 generation, and administration, as well as engineering requested canned reports, providing a limited ad hoc reporting utility, expand the statistics page to include filters by IC and other criteria, handling overpayment refunds, and providing a fiscal year control. Replace existing software developed on a Visual Basic 6 platform with ASP.NET 2.0 platform back ending to a separate Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database. ?Put in a safety so that the same CCR file cannot be imported more than once ?Complete steps needed to ensure DUNS verification for pre-payment reviewers ?Design and create reports (summary reports of payments/non-payments; paid/not-paid per payout) ?Configure system to not allow conferences without reviewers to be auto-accepted ?Modify stats page to add stats by Fiscal Year (FY) and IC (drop down) ?Design system to handle overpayment refunds like credits ?Provide full automation of FTP and other external processes ?Review request to handle manual exceptions after the fact ?Modify credits page to correctly display holds (if a payment is paid, then credited, then paid, then credited again, both payments show up as being on hold instead of just the second one) ?Add filter to credits and search results page to include only unpaid/unprocessed records ?Review data entry methods ?Develop query to return all reviewers missing Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Tax Payer Identification Numbers (TPIN) (filter for multiple returns of same reviewer for different ICs so minimal research is done); allow manual entry into separate field or allow designation as foreign, with comments. ?Include a checkbox to indicate whether the reviewer should receive a 1099. ?Create admin tool to delete Credits erroneously added by upload. ?Create a query to provide total outstanding (unpaid) by IC by FY ?limit displays by FY ?Configure the system to allow data aging to limit repetitively failing payouts ?Ensure sensitive data is secure and is encrypted with the most up to date software ?Provide reviewer search on schedule number for both payments and credits ?Provide enhancements to the system as needed in a prioritized manner. For Base year plus 4 option years: 2.2 Provide ongoing consulting and development support for new requests that OFM regularly receives to enhance functionality of the SREA system. This requires a detailed understanding of the existing processes and systems so that the contractor can formulate complex solutions to needs which are defined at a basic level by OFM. 2.3 Proactively make suggestions for adding features to the SREAPRS that will improve the payment process for OFM staff, provide better management oversight through such means as reporting, and enhance the overall productivity of system users. 2.4 Assist with biweekly payouts 2.5 Assist with annual creation of 1099s. 2.6 Utilize expertise of the system?s database architecture and complex data relationships to accurately generate ad hoc reports for management where canned reports are not provided in the system. 2.7 Provide ongoing administration of the application server and associated database. Development staff will need to interact with the appropriate IT authorities at NIH to ensure all internal processes are followed. 2.8 Provide training of system to user community of approximately 50 people as well as to the OFM systems group, which may include follow-up training sessions if multiple changes or enhancements are made to the system. Training will be coordinated by the Chief of GA, OFM/NIH and given by the Contractor. 2.9 Conduct Question & Answer (Q & A) sessions with user community during each training session. Additional Q & A?s may be needed throughout the course of system development. Q & A?s will be coordinated by Chief, of Government Accounting and given by the Contractor. 2.10 Create and provide training manuals and written documentation of full functionality of the SPEAPRS system. 2.11 Provide ongoing consulting and technical support as well as troubleshooting for the user community via the Chief of GA, OFM/NIH. 2.12 Meet with the Chief of GA, OFM/NIH and provide progress reports. Interested parties may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit capability statements to the Contract Specialist by March 13, 2007 at 3PM EST. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Address responses to the attention of Doris Vaughn at National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Blvd., Room 539B, MSC 7663, Rockville, MD 20852. The NAICS Code for this requirement is 518210.
- Place of Performance
- Address: National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Md
- Zip Code: 20852
- Country: UNITED STATES
- Zip Code: 20852
- Record
- SN01244437-W 20070308/070306220314 (fbodaily.com)
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