SOLICITATION NOTICE
99 -- Oracle Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Environment - Markey Survey
- Notice Date
- 7/2/2008
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Headquarters, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, AJA-46 HQ - FAA Headquarters (Washington, DC)
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- 6850
- Response Due
- 7/21/2008
- Archive Date
- 8/5/2008
- Point of Contact
- PAMELA DAVIS, (202) 267-8068
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- PURPOSE: The purpose of this market survey is to give industry an opportunity to respond and describe their capabilities to perform the requirement described herein. The purpose of the implementing this GRC environment is to enable the FAA to adhere to the letter and spirit of OMB A-123 and achieve better internal financial controls. This market survey is to notify the supplier community that the FAA intends to acquire this solution from Oracle. REQUIREMENT: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a requirement for the acquisition of a governance, risk and control COTS software solution consisting of software, licensing, and maintenance for development and production a Financial Internal Controls environment. This environment will allow internals controls staff to manage, monitor and test internal controls to better manage FAA's financial controls. The FAA intends to solicit and negotiate for the Oracle GRC product through an authorized reseller. This is done in accordance with AMS Policy 3.2.2.4. A firm-fixed-price purchase order will be awarded to fulfill this requirement. BACKGROUND: The FAA is required to adhere to OMB Circular A-123 as part of the Department of Transportation's (DOT) department wide compliance initiative. As with many federal agencies addressing OMB A-123, the FAA primarily uses spreadsheet and database tools to monitor, test, remediate, and report its progress with internal controls compliance, which is a manual and thus labor intensive effort. Due to the complexity and reporting requirements of OMB A-123 across the FAA, an alternative approach to the governance, risk, and compliance of annual assessment requirements is needed. This new approach should streamline the review and approval of agency documentation, enhance management oversight, improve the reporting and monitoring functionalities throughout the annual assessment, and create a central repository for documentation. MANDATORY QULAFICATION REQUIREMENTS: In order to be considered responsive, organizations expressing interest in this matter must provide clear evidence showing:. Leverages the existing FAA investment in Logical Apps. Prevents the additional expense of integrating other solutions with Logical Apps. Prevents the additional; expense of acquiring and integrating multiple stove pipe solutions for different aspects of Governance, Risk and Control. Prevent the additional expense of maintaining the code, APIs and scripts to glue the stove piped solution together initially and during each upgrade release.. Enable simple and less expensive integration with Oracle financials. FUNCTIONALITY: Acquire a solution that shall enable Internal Controls Division, AFM-600, to effectively plan, model, report and analyze GRC activities so that potential issues are identified earlier and corrective actions are more timely and informed. This can be accomplished by the following:Leverage a single, integrated source of compliance information across headquarters, lines of business, and regions.Get a consistent view and measure of risk across the agency.Reduce control deficiencies while increasing information reliability.Leverage out-of-the-box reports with hundreds of pre-delivered metrics and guided analysis.Target delivery of intelligence through role-based dashboards with drill down to detailed evidence.Review control information via multiple dimensions.Route alerts and notifications for appropriate action.Quickly identify the root causes of issues for rapid remediation. SUBMISSION:In response to this market survey, the FAA requests, sources capable of satisfying this requirement should submit Capabilities Statements that clearly describes how a company would satisfy the FAA requirement as expressed in the above description. FORMAT: Responses to be submitted in accordance with the following format: Send one electronic copy pamela.davis@faa.gov and john.larsen@faa.gov,Send two hard copies to the following address:Federal Aviation Administration 800 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 402 Washington DC 20591 Attn: Pamela Davis, AJA-482 NOTES: The electronic submission and the hard copies must be identical. Submissions must not exceed 25 pages in length. The electronic submission should be in Microsoft WORD format. Oral submissions will not be accepted. COMPANY POINTS OF CONTACT: Responses will include a company point(s) of contact, telephone number(s), fax number(s),e-mail address(es) (if available), and mailing address. GOVERNMENT POINT OF CONTACT: For questions, request for information regarding this market survey, should be directed to the Pamela Davis at pamela.davis@faa.gov CLOSING DATE: All responses to this Market Survey must be submitted to the above addresses no later than 3:00 PM (EST) on July 21, 2008. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This announcement is not intended to guarantee procurement of the services, and shall not be construed as a commitment by the Government to enter into a contract. The Government is not liable for cost associated with the preparation, submittal of inquiries or responses for this announcement and will not reimburse any firm for cost incurred in responding to this public announcement. END OF ANNOUNCEMENT
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