SOLICITATION NOTICE
D -- Aquisition Management Software (AMS)
- Notice Date
- 1/2/2013
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Procurement and Property Management, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 1830, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212
- ZIP Code
- 20212
- Solicitation Number
- SSN-CompusearchSoftware
- Archive Date
- 1/23/2013
- Point of Contact
- Michael V. DeAngelis,
- E-Mail Address
-
DeAngelis.Michael@bls.gov
(DeAngelis.Michael@bls.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- In accordance with FAR 11.105 (a) (3), the following attached brand name justification is hereby provided for public dissemination. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations and in no way obligates the Government to award a contract. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information, for planning purposes, regarding the availability and capability of potential sources that can provide the required supplies described in the attached Sole Source Justification. Your response to the information requested will assist the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in planning the appropriate acquisition strategy. With your response, please include: a. DUNS number b. Company Name c. Company Address d. Current GSA Schedules appropriate to this notice e. Type of Company (i.e. large business, small business, small disadvantaged, women owned, HUBZone, and Service Disabled) as validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). f. Company point of contact, phone and email address All responses must be submitted in an electronic form via e-mail to the Contracting Officer at DeAngelis.Michael@BLS.GOV no later than January 8, 2013 at 12:00 pm. Reponses will not be accepted after the due date. Faxed information will not be considered. BLS will not accept phone calls regarding this notice. BLS will not return any information submitted in response to this notice. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with your submittal. Information received will be used in BLS's market research effort and for procurement planning purposes. This notice is not to be construed as a commitment by BLS. The Government reserves the right to contact, or not to contact, any party responding to this notice in order to obtain further information for market research purposes. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Administration GSA Schedule Sole Source Task Order For Acquisition Management System Customization Services 1. Identification of the agency and the contacting activity, and specific identification of the document as a "Sole Source Bridge Contract." a. Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Administration, Divisions of Administrative Services and Information Systems (DAS and DIS) Room 1830 b. Contracting Bureau of Labor Statistics; Division of Administrative Services Activity: Branch of Procurement, Property, and Contract Management; Room 1830 2. Nature and/or description of the action being approved. This action approves and justifies the issuance of a Sole Source GSA schedule task order issued to large business Compusearch Software Systems Inc., as a follow-on to the Department of Labor's award for a new acquisition management system (AMS) with this vendor. BLS has specific customization needs beyond the scope of DOL's awarded contract, namely the incorporation of an interface with the new AMS and the BLS MIS checkbook for accounting and budgeting purposes. The period of performance will be a base period of one year from the date of award for the initial programming and implementation of the customized interface, with four one year option years for continued maintenance. 3. A description of the supplies or services required to meet the agency's needs. a. Description of the supplies or services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses an in-house application, BLS Checkbook, to monitor funds balances and to record commitment and obligation information at a more detailed level than the Accounting Line level. BLS uses the BLS Checkbook to establish individual "pots of funds," each one identified by a unique four-digit "Control Number," at the BLS Program (Activity), Cost Center, and MIS Object Class level. The MIS Object Class is a BLS-determined roll up of DOL Object Class. The Control Number is a sequential number generated prior to or during a fiscal year to identify these individual pots of funds. The Control Number balance equals the current operating budget for the Control Number minus all existing commitments against it. The purposes of the BLS Checkbook are to record "charges" against the operating budgets of individual Control Numbers, to provide users information on the remaining balances, and to prevent overcharges. For that reason, within the BLS Checkbook, a Commitment and an Obligation is treated in the same way: as a "charge" against (that is, a subtraction of funds from) the operating budget of a Control Number. Whether it is a Commitment or an Obligation in the DOL Procurement System, it is always referred to as a Commitment in the BLS Checkbook. The DOL Procurement System must interface with the BLS Checkbook via a BLS Web Service. When a BLS user is processing a procurement action in the Procurement System the Procurement System must invoke the BLS Web Service at specific points during the processing of the procurement action. This is so that the BLS Web Service can perform BLS-specific functionality such as the following examples: • Present information to the Procurement System user, prompt the user for response(s), and accept the user response(s) (such as a user selection from a list of values). • Provide Control Numbers and their real-time balances to the Procurement System user in response to certain user entries/selections. • Perform a real-time funds check against the BLS Checkbook to verify that a user-selected Control Number has a sufficient balance for the procurement action before the funds are committed or obligated. This funds checking process is in addition to the approval process that is standard for DOL. • Providing Accounting Line segments to the Procurement System for assignment on the user's procurement action. • Send commitment and obligation information to the BLS Checkbook upon each successful funds check. 4. The authority and supporting rationale (see 8.405-6(a)(1)(i) and (b)(1)) and, if applicable, a demonstration of the proposed contractor's unique qualifications to provide the required supply or service. a. Authority FAR Par 8.405-6 (a)(1)(i)(b) Only one source is capable of providing the supplies or services required at the level of quality required because the supplies or services are unique or highly specialized.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOL/BLS/WashingtonDC/SSN-CompusearchSoftware/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, 20212, United States
- Zip Code: 20212
- Zip Code: 20212
- Record
- SN02957629-W 20130104/130102233848-8f6936d277e5588e696b79bf56face0c (fbodaily.com)
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