SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- JPL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
- Notice Date
- 5/24/2012
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541513
— Computer Facilities Management Services
- Contracting Office
- NASA Management Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive,Pasadena, CA 91109
- ZIP Code
- 91109
- Solicitation Number
- TL-12-06
- Response Due
- 6/25/2012
- Archive Date
- 5/24/2013
- Point of Contact
- Mary Helen Ruiz, JPL Business Opportunities Office, Phone 818-354-7532, Fax 818-393-1746, Email maryhelen.ruiz@jpl.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Mary Helen Ruiz
(maryhelen.ruiz@jpl.nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS IS A RFI ONLY TO GATHER INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL QUALIFIED SOURCES AND THEIR SIZE CLASSIFICATIONS (SMALL BUSINESS, WOMEN-OWNED, SMALL DISADVANTAGED, VETERAN-OWNED, SERVICE-DISABLED VETERAN-OWNED, HUBZONE OR LARGE BUSINESS) RELATIVE TO NAICS CODE 541513. RESPONSES TO THIS RFI WILL BE USED BY JPL TO MAKE APPROPRIATE ACQUISITION DECISIONS REGARDING A SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE PROCUREMENT. The California Institute of Technologys (Caltech) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) operating under a prime contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) anticipates awarding a Subcontract for managing the IT infrastructure and end user services and support for a 5,000 person organization, located in Pasadena, CA. We are interested in your companys capabilities and interest to propose on this effort. The purpose of this letter and attached Statement of Work (SOW) is to request information to determine industry capabilities and interest in participating in this competitive contract award process. The Attachment 1 - Straw man SOW contemplates moving from a support Subcontract in which labor is provided under JPL direction, to a services Subcontract in which the subcontractor takes responsibility for the uptime, quality and security of mature services while incorporating changes and enhancements to those services as appropriate. There are also elements of the SOW that contemplate engineering, development and implementation of new services or service upgrades that would be treated as a project based Subcontract Work Orders. JPL will provide additional details to the Attachment 1 - SOW and/or Exhibits at a later date. STATEMENT OF CAPABILITIES: If your company is interested and capable of being the prime contractor on this effort, or a portion of this effort, JPL requests a response to the following key points regarding your companys capabilities: (1) Describe your related experience including customer, contract type, similarities to the proposed scope and average number of employees; (2) Describe your capabilities and corporate resources to perform a Subcontract of this size and complexity; (3) Describe your financial resources available to operate a Subcontract of this size, including how you would finance the startup and first 3 months after transition is complete; (4) Describe your ability to provide services to multiple customers with a single team; and (5) Provide the size of your current work force (W-2 employees), the size/socio-economic status of your company, and any comment on the NAICS code specified above. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: Relative to the Attachment 1 - SOW, you are requested to provide your comments/opinions in the following areas: (1) Provide short but concise comments for each of the clauses in paragraph (1.0 and 2.0) of the SOW; (2) Discuss your experience with small businesses working as a prime contractor for this size of a contract; (3) Opinions of using Time and Material (T&M) or Firm Fixed Price (FFP) type subcontract; (4) Providing work as a service (vs. level of effort); (5) Provide your experience transitioning large efforts, without disruption or degradation in service; (6) Discuss the benefits or challenges of working on-site at JPL vs. off-site at subcontractor facility; and (7) Utilization of Subcontractors processes to provide the requested services. JPL requests that interested parties respond in written form with no restriction on page limit. Please include your company name, contact information, and size classification. RESPONSES DUE (for JPL Web Site): Responses are requested by June 25, 2012, and shall be submitted to JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Attention: Thomas Lynch, Subcontracts Manager, M/S 190-214, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 or via E-Mail to: thomas.f.lynch@jpl.nasa.gov. If you have technical questions, please contact Gordon Campbell at (818) 354-2848. Questions of an administrative nature should be directed to the Subcontracts Manager at (818) 354-4948. DISCLAIMER: It is emphasized that this is not a solicitation announcement. This is an RFI only. The requested information is for preliminary planning purposes only and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that JPL will solicit your company for such procurement in the future. Neither JPL nor the Government will be responsible for any costs incurred by you in furnishing this information. Prospective contractors are advised that any information provided shall be deemed to be furnished with unlimited rights to JPL, with JPL assuming no liability for the disclosure, use, or reproduction of such data.
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