SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Annual Renewal of Gartner for IT Leaders Advisor Licenses
- Notice Date
- 9/2/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of Tranportation (OST) Procurement Operations, OST Acquisition Services Division, 1200 New Jersey Ave, Washington, District of Columbia, 20590
- ZIP Code
- 20590
- Solicitation Number
- DTOS59-09-R-00025
- Archive Date
- 1/31/2010
- Point of Contact
- James H Mowery III, Phone: 202-366-4959, James H Mowery III, Phone: 202-366-4959
- E-Mail Address
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james.mowery@dot.gov, james.mowery@dot.gov
(james.mowery@dot.gov, james.mowery@dot.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The U. S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) intends to purchase, on a SOLE-SOURCE basis, from Gartner, Incorporated, an annual renewal of two licenses for RITA’s use of Gartner’s IT Leaders Advisor service subscription, as is further explained below. However, any organization (other than Gartner) that believes that it is capable of providing an equivalent service at the high level of quality indispensable to RITA, shall e-mail a Statement of Qualifications to james.mowery@dot.gov not later than 11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time September 17, 2009. Further information concerning RITA’s needs and Gartner’s capabilities is given below. RITA brings together important data, research and technology transfer assets of the Department of Transportation, including: •Bureau of Transportation Statistics •Intelligent Transportation Systems •National Transportation Library •Research, Development and Technology •Transportation Safety institute •University Transportation Centers •Volpe National Transportation Systems Center RITA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer plays a vital role in establishing policy, planning, managing and oversight related to RITA’s Information Technology Program. As the IT leadership organization, the RITA OCIO must keep agency systems and IT processes operating efficiently to allow for RITA’s unique mission and functions to continue and RITA’s stakeholders’ needs to be met. Additionally, the Office of the Chief Information Officer must fully support DOT’s strategic and tactical objectives, and ensure that RITA’s research and technology programs are integrated when required. Given RITA’s critical mission and the fundamental role of IT in RITA’s success, it is important for RITA’s IT leaders to have access to extensive technology information and IT analyst expertise to provide guidance upon which to make decisions. The types of issues on which RITA’s OCIO will need to focus over the coming year or more are wide ranging, such as: IT Trends and future technologies that RITA can leverage to accelerate mission attainment; Web 2.0, web re-design processes, and data integration; Messaging beyond the use of RSS or similar technologies for stakeholders and others; Content Management-related activities in support of statistical and library services; Technology considerations in the selection and deployment of packaged business applications; Social networking technologies and best practices; Relational database maintenance, data management and potential migration issues; and Collaboration technologies including Sharepoint product information and best practices. These challenges encompass literally dozens of critical decisions which will likely involve hardware, software and other technologies, business processes, and best practices. The opportunity exists to optimize decisions and to defend RITA’s ultimate approach with the benefit of having available to RITA objective and reliable research and insight, proven best practices, and innovative thinking for strategy development. Gartner provides a comprehensive set of research and tools to meet RITA requirements. The tools are easy to use and have the flexibility to be tailored to the specific requirements of various users. Gartner provides re-usable templates, presentations and diagnostics tools across a broad range of information technology areas such as Business Process Improvement, Enterprise Architecture, Sourcing and Vendor Relationships, and Security. The service also includes Gartner’s “Core Research” archive and tool kits that are ready-to-use, actionable, and save time and resources vs. building them from scratch. Lastly, the service subscription includes the following: Web access to all Gartner for IT Leaders research content on Gartner.com; Web access to all Gartner Core research content on Gartner.com; Un-metered Analyst Inquiry calls for each Advisor seat holder; Un-metered Standard Document Reviews of business-related documents; (20 pages or less per document review; Teleconferences—periodic “telephone meetings” on pressing, timely issues where Gartner analysts speak to Gartner members and poll the listeners (Advisor level); Talking Technology Series—a monthly audio series that provides an executive summary focusing on current, popular IT issues (Advisor level). RITA is aware of no organization, other than Gartner, Incorporated, that can: (a) provide the serviices described above; and (b) provide the broad range of expertise which Gartner can make available on very short notice and which is covered within the cost of subscription. However, any organization (other than Gartner) which believes that it is capable of providing an equivalent service at the high level of quality indispensable to RITA, shall e-mail a Statement of Qualifications to james.mowery@dot.gov not later than 11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time September 17, 2009.
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