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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF JULY 20, 2008 FBO #2428
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D -- RFI-ENGINEERING SUPPORT TO MAINTAIN APPLICATION SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE - DRAFT SOW

Notice Date: 7/18/2008
Notice Type: DRAFT SOW
NAICS: 541512 — Computer Systems Design Services
Contracting Office: Department of Agriculture, Office of Procurement and Property Management, Procurement Operations Division, 300 7th Street, S.W., Room 377, Reporters Building, Washington, District of Columbia, 20024
ZIP Code: 20024
Solicitation Number: AG-3142-I-08-2008
Archive Date: 9/5/2008
Point of Contact: Vivian (Bobbie) J McPherson,, Phone: 202-720-2649
E-Mail Address: vivian.mcpherson@usda.gov
Small Business Set-Aside: N/A
Description: Request for Information The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) seeks a partner to provide engineering support to maintain its application system support infrastructure hosted by the National Information Technology Center's (NITC) enterprise datacenters located at Kansas City, Missouri and George Washington Carver Center (GWCC) Washington DC. A description of the systems and support services are defined in the attached draft statement of work. This is a Request For Information (RFI) issued solely for information and planning purposes. It does not constitute a Request For Proposal (RFP). USDA intends to assess the capabilities of the potential candidates and may then issue an RFP prior to September 30, 2008. Introduction The Office of the Chief Financial Officer/Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial Systems (ACFO-FS) manages a range of systems that are used for the administrative and financial management of the United States Department of Agriculture. The ACFO-FS' mission is to provide effective and efficient tools that are used to ensure proper financial management of USDA agencies at the corporate level, and that adequate financial records are maintained for accountability and reporting to the Inspector General, Congress, other Federal agencies and to the public. The ACFO-FS accomplishes this by maintaining the corporate financial management system, the Foundation Financial Information System, corporate reporting through the Financial Statement Data Warehouse, agency reporting thorough the Financial Data Warehouse, an Automated Cash Reconciliation Work Sheet used for daily reconciliation with the United States Treasury, the Purchase Card Management System, the Travel System, the Personal Property System, and the Purchase Order System. All of the applications are critical to the overall mission of the USDA. •1. Given the current scope of the proposed statement of work, are there any additional services that you believe would provide a substantial benefit to the Government? If so, please describe those services and the appropriate pricing model. •2. The Government is currently considering pricing for all tasks under a Firm Fixed Price or Cost Plus arrangement. Please respond whether or not you believe that this would be the most cost effective pricing model for the Government. If not, please provide specific tasks that you believe should not be priced on a FFP/Cost Plus basis and your rationale. •3. The Government intends to enter into a performance-based contract with the successful Offeror. Given the scope of the tasks, please provide feedback on the Government's performance metrics and suggest different or additional metrics that you believe would provide the Government with the appropriate oversight into contract performance. •4. The Government is currently considering incentive arrangements (either incentive fee or award fee) to promote contract performance. At what levels of performance and/or incentive would this be most effective in driving superior performance. Please provide specific examples and rationale. Instructions to Prospective Offerors Responses to this RFI must be no more than 40 total single-sided pages with print no smaller than 10-point; however, text included in graphics, tables, and figures can be smaller than 10 point. The submission must be in sufficient detail and clarity to provide the USDA with the information it needs to assess your company's capabilities. Describe your pricing mode and provide a Rough Order of Magnitude pricing for supporting the USDA's requirements as described in the draft SOW. Responses must be submitted in electronic format. Tables, text and drawings will be provided in Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, or Visio readable formats. Offerors responses to the RFI must be submitted to the USDA by 3:00 p.m. EST August 21, 2008. Your company should only contact the contracting office ( in writing via email by 7/23/2008) issuing this letter if there are any questions about any aspect of this request for information. Interested parties must not contact USDA technical personnel about this RFI. Three hardcopies and three CD's of all responses must be submitted to Vivian McPherson USDA Office of Procurement and Property Management Reporter's Building, 300 7th Street, S.W. Room 386/ ATTN: GOLD RFI Washington, DC 20024 Phone (202) 720-2649; Fax: (202)720-9226 Email: v ivian.mcpherson@usda.gov Responses to this RFI must include: •1. Cover Letter - cover letter must include the following information: •a. Company Name, •b. Company point of contact including Email address and phone number •c. Date submitted •d. Applicable company GSA schedules Section 1 - Responses to questions 1-4 above Section 2 - Corporate Capability and Strategy Offeror must briefly describe their corporate capabilities to provide the services described in the attached draft Statement of Work. Offeror should describe their approach to working with the USDA to ensure a cohesive team utilizing the capabilities and experience of the vendor. Offeror must indicate if any subcontractors are small, and disadvantaged, or other minority business concerns. Offeror must also describe their proposed methodology and approach for implementation of the disaster recovery solution and provide a proposed project plan including any transition planning milestones or conversion tasks, and recommended types of training for USDA personnel, within a stringent timeframe. •4. Section 3 - Related Experience The offer should identify and describe experiences related to the services identified in the draft SOW. The description should be in enough detail to demonstrate corporate expertise. •5. Section 4 - Proposed Cost Model(s) Offers should provide their cost model for providing the disaster recovery hosting and recovery engineering services. Please ensure that any sensitive or protected information is marked as such.
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Document(s): DRAFT SOW; File Name: DRAFT SOW (SOW.doc); Link: https://www.fbo.gov//utils/view?id=f61dbcc62e291be06b15525e5351d7e0; Bytes: 3,553.50 Kb; File Name: ACFO-FS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE (ACFO-FS_System_Architecture.doc); Link: https://www.fbo.gov//utils/view?id=4b620c352d1c0f3fa4942290ff7b7bc6; Bytes: 1,673.00 Kb; Note: If links are broken, refer to Point of Contact above or contact the FBO Help Desk at 877-472-3779.
Place of Performance: Address: KANSAS CITY, MO &, WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, 20005, United States; Zip Code: 20005
Record: SN01617817-W 20080720/080718221327-c20926c488246f485a16425a130cf126 (fbodaily.com)
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