SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Electronic National Select Agent Registry (eNSAR)
- Notice Date
- 6/3/2011
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541511
— Custom Computer Programming Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- 0000HCGF-2011-RFI-eNSAR
- Point of Contact
- Kristopher A Lemaster, Phone: 7704882995
- E-Mail Address
-
klemaster@cdc.gov
(klemaster@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI), NOT A SOLICITATION Introduction The Division of Select Agents and Toxins (DSAT), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking industry feedback on a range of issues as it formulates its solution sourcing strategy to support DSAT's information resources program. The National Select Agent Registry (NSAR) contains key information for the protection of national security and is a critical tool that supports effective implementation of the U.S. Government's Select Agent Program (SAP). CDC, DSAT, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and other SAP stakeholders rely on NSAR and its associated business processes to be accurate, accessible, flexible, secure, and able to be easily updated and maintained. Background As the world's leading public health agency, CDC has the responsibility for promoting health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury and disability. CDC works with States, local public health agencies and partners throughout the Nation and the world to accomplish this mission. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and the health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States and throughout the world. While CDC has broad and deep expertise and program responsibilities for hundreds of diseases, health conditions, and health risks, CDC is also focusing on more integrated approaches to health improvement, wellness, and health system transformation through its health protection goals. (see www.cdc.gov). CDC is an information-intensive organization across the spectrum of health monitoring, research, analytics, and information communication to improve health. Consequently, CDC's dependence on information technology (IT), information systems, electronic communications, and digital media continues to grow rapidly and is essential to the agency's mission and program accomplishment. Scientific credibility and service are the characteristics for which CDC is best known and most widely appreciated. Maintaining this credibility and service in an era of dramatic information growth is critical to CDC. CDC has developed strategies to use information technology to effectively and efficiently facilitate the mission, while protecting the integrity and confidentiality of its information resources. CDC's latest IT Strategic Plan can be found at www.cdc.gov/ocio. Current Solution NSAR is a single secure national database, used by both CDC and APHIS SAP users. Its goals are to minimize data collection and data entry burden and redundancy, improve information sharing, and reduce entities' reporting burden by allowing the electronic submission of forms. This function is currently being performed using EMC's Documentum, with extensive custom coding. Program reports are generated using Business Objects' Crystal Reports. The NSAR solution was initially developed in 2003 and implemented in 2005, primarily as a document repository and registry database. NSAR is based on EMC's Documentum Content Server® application, version 5.3.0.510. Content Server was the main part of Documentum's Content Management software. It allows users to create, manage, deliver and archive content. NSAR also consists of v.5.2.5 of the Records Manager® application which provides formal records management capabilities, security, records classification, and file plan features. The solution is heavily customized - estimated at 40% COTS, 60% customization. The current solution does not adequately support the "suitability, sufficiency, usability, availability, reliability, maintainability, consistency, and affordability needs of the organization" and "negatively impacts SAP processes." Desired Solution A Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product solution hosted on premise (versus in a cloud computing environment) is desired to replace the current NSAR legacy system. The new system will be referred to as the Electronic National Select Agent Registry, or eNSAR. It is anticipated that the eNSAR solution will leverage COTS products (such as Business Process Management, Case Management, or workflow applications) as the core functionality, integrated with other components (database, document management solution, etc.). A focal point of the solution is the minimization of custom code through the configuration of COTS products. The new solution will include a secure portal allowing external users to enter data directly into eNSAR. The system could be a singular COTS product or a set of individual COTS components integrated into a unified system with additional functionality added as needed. Features and Functionality: • Data registry system • Flexible architecture that supports new requirements based on changing legislation, as this may impact data fields or parameters collected through this registry. • Robust business analytics • Workflow • Role-based authorizations, permissions, and security. Users • The "power users" population contains about 50 total users, across two separate agencies in two separate geographic locations. • There are about 600 facility (entity) users, who are external to these agencies, and would require access to approve data being sent (but wouldn't need the same level of rights/access as the power users), workflow status to track their submissions to the data registry, as well as access to general analytics for their particular facility (which would have multiple registrations within the system). • There are approximately 10,000 registrants, requiring data entry access only through a portal. It would be beneficial to have ability to provide a workflow status update of the application process back to these data entrants, but provide no deeper access into the system. These registrants would be able to enter information, but it would not be "accepted" into the system until the facility user identified approves their application. • Remote access/mobile access capability for some of the power users who conduct site visits across the US. These individuals would need full access as they would if they were in their home office, but the means by which they gain access is flexible, as long as they can obtain secure and dependable access when away from their main office. The overall data registry component is not overly complex, but the business activity monitoring components and robust workflow capabilities will be a key focal point, given the diversity of users. Instructions: CDC appreciates industry feedback on any or all of the following questions. Responses should be sent to the following email address: KLemaster@cdc.gov no later than July 1, 2011. Please limit responses to any question to no more than 1 page. Responses should be in Microsoft Office format (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). Responses will be kept confidential. Response or non-response to this RFI will have no bearing on the standing of any proposer in subsequent solicitations. The sole purpose of this RFI is to assist CDC in understanding the solution provider landscape, identify good ideas and strategies, and avoid solicitation or contracting parameters which would be detrimental to CDC's mission or industry's ability to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions. CDC does not plan to respond back to companies that submit responses to this RFI except perhaps to ask a clarifying question regarding a response provided. Industry Questions: 1. Please provide the vendor name(s), version(s) and module(s) of software that you believe will support the desired solution. 2. What is the expected time to implement the proposed software solution? 3. What are the benefits and value to the government of the conceptual solution? 4. Can this software solution be implemented using a modular approach, delivering new functionality in six-month increments, if necessary? 5. Please provide examples of similar implementations of this proposed software solution in a government environment. 6. Does the software support HSPD-12 Personal Identity Verification initiatives? 7. Will this software support DD 254 certification requirements? 8. Does the software support Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) data policy and protection standards? 9. Please describe the scalability of the software, and how the pricing model(s) used can support that efficiently and economically. 10. Has the software solution proposed been successfully and securely integrated with mobile devices? 11. What are other key considerations that should be included in the evaluation process? 12. OTHER: Any other suggestions or ideas for CDC to consider in this solicitation? Contracting Office Address: Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta) 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000 Atlanta, GA, 30341-4146 UNITED STATES Place of Performance: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road Atlanta, Georgia 30329
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- Zip Code: 30329
- Zip Code: 30329
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