SPECIAL NOTICE
D -- TESS Industry Awareness Conference Notice
- Notice Date
- 9/4/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Office of Financial Service, Office of Financial Service-Procurement and Contracts, 1250 H. Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, District of Columbia, 20005, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20005
- Solicitation Number
- TIB-2012-0003
- Point of Contact
- Marisol Vargas-Busch, Phone: 2029421621
- E-Mail Address
-
marisol.vargas-busch@tsp.gov
(marisol.vargas-busch@tsp.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- SPECIAL NOTICE TESS - Industry Awareness Conference Notification The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) plans to issue a final Request for Proposal (RFP) before January 2013, to acquire Technology and Enterprise Support Services (TESS). The TESS acquisition is a F ull and Open Competition whose scope is a full range of information technology (IT) support services for the TSP recordkeeping system, in accordance with the Agency's responsibility to administer the TSP. The primary North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code is 541512. The purpose of this Notification is to inform prospective offerors of the TESS Industry Awareness Conference (Conference) to be held Thursday, October 4, 2012, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, with a one-hour break for lunch. The Conference will be held at the Kellogg Conference Hotel, l ocated on the campus of Gallaudet University in Northeast Washington D.C. The address is 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington DC, 20002. Restaurant facilities and complimentary parking are available on the campus. For more information, go to www.kelloggconferencehotel.com. The Conference is open at no charge to all prospective offerors. However, to reserve your space, you must pre-register for the conference at www.TESS-Industry.com. Please limit your company's participant number to 5. The FRTIB reserves the right to change the number of participants per company depending on Industry response. Based on your pre-registration, you will receive a name badge when you arrive at the Conference location, which will be your pass into the meeting. The FRTIB is an independent Federal agency in the Executive Branch that administers the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The TSP is a retirement savings plan for Federal employees; it is similar to the 401(k) plans offered by many private employers. As of July 2012, TSP assets totaled approximately $313 billion, and retirement savings accounts were being maintained for roughly 4.5 million TSP participants. Participants include Federal civilian employees in all branches of Government, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, and members of the uniformed services. Additional information can be found at www.tsp.gov. The FRTIB plans to issue a draft Statement of Work (SOW) prior to the start of the Conference. Participants of the Industry Awareness Conference will hear an overview of the FRTIB, the TSP, the draft SOW, and the information technology environment associated with the TESS acquisition. During the conference, we will not respond to questions, but will provide information about submitting specific, written questions about the draft SOW. TESS includes the following IT support services: · Application Development - Full Life Cycle, including maintenance · Application Portfolio Management · Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Models · Data Centers (Mainframe, Virtual Servers, Open Systems, Databases, Application Servers) · Data Redundancy · Defined Contribution Plan IT-Related Recordkeeping Activities, using SunGard Omni suite of commercial-off-the-shelf software applications · Delivery Service Framework · Enterprise Configuration Management · Enterprise Risk Management · Infrastructure and Operations · ITIL Framework · IT Security - System and Software · Project Management for: -long-term, multi-million dollar projects, -recurring, short-term, multi-functional releases -large-scale infrastructure upgrades - mainframe and virtual server environments · Quality Assurance and Quality Control · Telephony · Time sensitive nightly batch processing for large volume financial transactions Changes to the information in this Notification will be posted at www.fbo.gov.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/FRTIB/OA/WashingtonDC/TIB-2012-0003/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20002, United States
- Zip Code: 20002
- Zip Code: 20002
- Record
- SN02866226-W 20120906/120905000006-cd200d3379b87c706ba758b83220ab98 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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