SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- Chief Information Officer – Commodity Solutions (CIO-CS) - NIHOD2013418-SF33 - Chief Information Officer – Commodity Solutions Statement of Objectives - CIO-CS Q&A Template
- Notice Date
- 3/18/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541519
— Other Computer Related Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, 6011 Exec Blvd, MSC 7226, Rockville, Maryland, 20892-7226
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7226
- Solicitation Number
- NIHOD2013418
- Archive Date
- 4/23/2013
- Point of Contact
- Edward B. Wilgus, , Hing Pan Wong,
- E-Mail Address
-
CIO.CS@mail.nih.gov, CIO.CS@mail.nih.gov
(CIO.CS@mail.nih.gov, CIO.CS@mail.nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- As stated in paragraph L.2.2 of the Draft RFP, contractors and government customers wishing to comment or ask any questions should submit such comments and questions via email to cio.cs@mail.nih.gov. All questions and/or comments must be received no later than 10:00 am EST on Monday, April 8, 2013. Questions and/or comments should be submitted via a single email that contains all questions and comments. The questions and comments should be associated to the relevant article or paragraph numbers in the draft RFP. Emails shall include the company or agency name, solicitation number and title in the subject line. (i.e., Company/Agency X Draft RFP: NIHOD2013418 - CIO-CS DRAFT. Interested parties can respond to either the Source Sought or the Draft RFP or both. Questions and/or comments submitted by any means other than the email address noted above or past the due date will not be considered. Interested parties are requested to submit their questions/comments using the CIO-CS Q&A Template attached to this announcement. Chief Information Officer – Commodity Solutions - Draft Request for Proposal Draft Request for Proposal NIHOD2013418 - SF33 Sources Sought and Draft Request for Proposal This sources sought announcement is for information and planning purposes only and is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government. A contract will not be awarded solely as a result of this sources sought announcement or related Draft Request for Proposal (RFP). PROPOSALS ARE NOT SOLICITED UNDER THE DRAFT RFP. However, NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) will consider the suggestions and questions received in developing a Final RFP. NITAAC would also like to take this opportunity to thank contractors and government customers in advance for any suggestions they may want to provide. 1.Background The federal government is committed to changing its business processes to achieve a world class standard of excellence. This is being accomplished by adopting best business practices and the latest technology to create a more efficient, citizen-centered federal government. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been designated as an executive agent for purposes of providing Information Technology (IT) to the government. Under this authority, NIH has established Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) to support the full range of IT needs across the federal government, with a particular emphasis on agencies like NIH and its parent, HHS, that are involved in health care and clinical and biological research. The NITAAC took its first major step in developing a successor GWAC to its current Electronic Commodities Store (ECS-III) GWAC, which is expiring in November 2013, by posting a Request for Information (RFI) in FedBizOpps on February 8, 2012. The RFI solicited feedback from both industry and the government as to the technology envisioned under the successor contract and best practices to be employed as well as potential new sources for these types of requirements. Based partly on the feedback received, the Government developed the attached draft RFP and is looking to industry for any feedback prior to issuing the formal RFP. The resulting GWAC will be open to all qualified contractors. Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that qualify in one or more of the Product Groups described in Section C of the solicitation and Value Added Resellers (VARSs) that qualify in all of the Product Groups described will be encouraged to propose under the final solicitation. 2.Purpose NITAAC is soliciting interest in this GWAC, which contractors can indicate through the links provided at the end of this announcement. NITAAC is also soliciting feedback from industry and potential government customers regarding the Draft RFP. As stated in paragraph L.2.2 of the Draft RFP, contractors and government customers wishing to comment or ask any questions should submit such comments and questions via email to cio.cs@mail.nih.gov. All questions and/or comments must be received no later than 10:00 am EST on Monday, April 8, 2013. Questions and/or comments should be submitted via a single email that contains all questions and comments. The questions and comments should be associated to the relevant article or paragraph numbers in the draft RFP. Emails shall include the company or agency name, solicitation number and title in the subject line. (i.e., Company/Agency X Draft RFP: NIHOD2013418 - CIO-CS DRAFT. Interested parties can respond to either the Source Sought or the Draft RFP or both. Questions and/or comments submitted by any means other than the email address noted above or past the due date will not be considered. Interested parties are requested to submit their questions/comments using the CIO-CS Q&A Template attached to this announcement. 3.Additional Information This notice is for information and planning purposes only and should not be construed as a commitment by the Government. This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and no contract will be awarded from this Notice. No reimbursement will be made for any costs associated with providing information in response to this Notice. As noted earlier, the government is not soliciting proposals or capability statements at this time. However, the government will consider comments and/or questions for the purpose of developing the Final RFP for the CIO-CS GWAC. The government is under no obligation to post any further information or answer any of the questions under this announcement. Requests for meetings regarding the Draft RFP and Sources Sought announcement will not be entertained at this time. This Sources Sought announcement is for planning purposes only and there is no intention to acquire any products or services, or award any contract, based on this notification. Information contained in this notification is the result of experience with the current GWACs and is therefore potentially subject to modification. It is in no way binding on the government. An appropriate RFP process may follow contingent upon executive agent designation for this new GWAC by the Office of Management and Budget. The government does not intend to pay for the information solicited. No entitlement to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges by the government will arise because of submission of responses to this Sources Sought announcement and the government's use of such information. The government prefers that no proprietary or confidential business data be submitted in response to this Sources Sought announcement. However, the government will hold in confidence any responses that indicate that the information therein is proprietary, or represents confidential business information. Proprietary information submitted, as part of responses to this Sources Sought announcement, should be clearly identified as COMMERCIAL IN-CONFIDENCE and it will be treated in confidence.
- Web Link
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FBO.gov Permalink
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- Place of Performance
- Address: 6011 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- Zip Code: 20852
- Zip Code: 20852
- Record
- SN03014399-W 20130320/130318235133-288f5eb0895fb65cacf0af308dd232bf (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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